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Something Else Quotes (page 8)

Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else. Charles Bukowski
Don Shula quote: "Work isnt work unless you would rather be doing something else."
Work isnt work unless you would rather be doing something else. Don Shula
But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away, and confident, too, as if she were able to move through life on her own terms. To him, these were the things that really mattered. Without them, beauty was nothing. Nicholas Sparks
Tobias Wolff quote: "He did not remember when everything began to remind him of..."
He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else. Tobias Wolff
Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit. Don't you feel that? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Tennessee Williams quote: "Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is..."
Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged. Tennessee Williams
Carrie Fisher quote: "We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English..."
We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else. Carrie Fisher
Who are you?" she inquired, as the cat passed by. I'm the cat that looked at a king," he replied. And I," she remarked with a toss of her head, "am the cow that jumped over the moon."Is that so?" said the cat. "Whatever for?"The cow stared. She had never been asked that question before. And suddenly it occured to her that there might something else to do than jumping over moons. P. L. Travers
Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power. Peter S. Beagle
Patrick Marber quote: "Everything is a version of something else."
Everything is a version of something else. Patrick Marber
Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous. Oscar Wilde
Every time I came to the end of a block and stepped off the goddam curb, I had this feeling that I'd never get to the other side of the street. I thought I'd just go down, down, down, and nobody'd ever see me again. Boy, did it scare me. You can't imagine. I started sweating like a bastard? my whole shirt and underwear and everything. Then I started doing something else. Every time I'd get to the end of a block I'd make believe I was talking to my brother Allie. I'd say to him, "Allie, don't... J. D. Salinger
Mitch Albom quote: "Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one..."
Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Mitch Albom
For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story. Philip Pullman
Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite. Put me into a crusader's armor, a cardinal's vestments. Let me feel the pygmy's heartbeat, the queen's breast, the torturer's pleasure, the Nile's taste, or the nomad's thirst. Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back. Pat Conroy

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