Someone Quotes
On the someones who shape a moment.
This page includes praise for a steady presence who doesn't panic under pressure, and a note on a fictional character built to feel relatable even in impossible circumstances. For similar reflections, see Know.
Arbeloa said he was my friend, but I don't consider him my friend - maybe someone I know, but not my friend.
It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you...
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Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone...
I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.
Never apologise for not being someone else. You're bound to find something you're good at, even if it's only writing stories.
Writing is writing to me. I'm incapable of saying no to any writing job, so I've done everything - historical fiction, myths, fairy tales, anything that anybody expresses any interest in me writing, I'll write. It's the same reason I...
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.
Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.
I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?
I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.
I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone.
It would be hard to throw a punch to someone who wasn't a boxer, who wasn't in the ring, and who didn't have on a pair of boxing gloves and who hadn't been training.
It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.
When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?
I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.
