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Something Quotes by George Saunders
- The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters…
- So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it:
- And so, a prediction, and my heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love. YOU…
- From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not…
- A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is not her. It’s…
- When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd…
- I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent…
- It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.
- My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant…
- We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But,…
- When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and…
- Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in…
More Something Quotes
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen