Something Else Quotes
1321 quotes by 1056 authors
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Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful,…
— Italo Calvino
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The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have…
— Edith Wharton
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Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration. You saying God…
— Alice Walker
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Vowels were something else. He didn't like them and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be everywhere.…
— Jerry Spinelli
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When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it…
— Jodi Picoult
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I say one thing, you write another, and those who read you understand still something else! I say: cross, death, kingdom of heaven, God...and what…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes the…
— Julia Cameron
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Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that…
— Fernando Pessoa
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A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain anything without sacrificing something else in return, but once you have overcome it and made…
— Hiromu Arakawa
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Dustfinger inspected his reddened fingers and felt the taut skin. ‘He might tell me how my story ends,’ he murmured. Meggie looked at him in…
— Cornelia Funke
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What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Hear me out. Would you eat a hamburger if there was any chance it could punch you in the face? - How is a hamburger…
— Claudia Gray
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No matter how hard she tried to concentrate on something else, to pass the time and to distract her from the situation she was in,…
— Steig Larsson
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Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence…
— Laura Moriarty
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He wanted to tell her that he was inspired and vigilant and recklessly alone, that his body contained his unsteady heart and something else, something…
— Michael Cunningham
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The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do…
— Morrie Schwartz
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maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but…
— Jodi Picoult
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He wondered what the years had done to his face as he traced the effects on hers. Eyes the same blue-lit green, but where mischievous…
— Victoria Hanley
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The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something…
— Amy Hempel
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I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you…
— Ray Bradbury
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