Something Quotes

Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.

I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

I go train, and like with Conan, I’m in leather, and with Drogo, I’m in leather or armor or something else. I’m not in my adidas sweat suit or my matching tracksuit pants to go work out. I got too busy of a day. I’ve got my boots.

Don’t a fellow feel good after he gets out of a store where he nearly bought something.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

Getting something and having the wits to use it…those are two different things.