„Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed.“

„Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was“

—  Jonathan Safran Foer, книга Everything Is Illuminated

Источник: Everything Is Illuminated

„Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.“

—  Josh Groban American musician and actor 1981

Inside Connection, February 2004
Вариант: I can only say so much about how I feel. Music is what I always turned to when I was feeling a certain way. It's been my reason for everything.

„One way to avoid what has already been done is to be true to yourself.“

—  Ramsey Campbell English author 1946

„I guess that singing is probably a very selfish thing. I guess it doesn't matter what you do. It's selfish in a way 'cause there's satisfaction involved and so. As a singer, you sometimes have to justify your reason for existence in a sort of a way because: what really are you doing for people, they say?“

—  Anne Murray Canadian singer 1945

On singing as a job, as quoted in a 1971 CBC interview: "Anne Murray thinks singing is selfish: The Vault", CBC/Radio-Canada, CBC.ca, 14 February 2018 http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1161696323776

„I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.“

—  Lionel Messi Argentine association football player 1987

„I want to know that I've done everything I could every day I think of all those people out there who are depending on us. I think about it. It does make me feel we need more work, more help. Get those spectators on the playing field, or out of the arena. Really, that is how I feel about it. I do what I can, and I do it the way I do everything… there's nothing part of the way for me.“

—  Tom Cruise American actor and film producer 1962

„Everything I do and say and the way I do and say it annoys me.“

—  William F. Buckley Jr. American conservative author and commentator 1925 - 2008

As quoted in "William F. Buckley Jr., Rapier Wit Of the Right" in The Washington Post (28 February 2008) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/27/AR2008022703901.html.

„I’m just saying that I think I chose the way I did in part because of you. Since I’ve
met you, everything I’ve done has been in part because of you.“

—  Cassandra Clare, книга City of Glass

Источник: City of Glass

„Everything matters. Everything you do touches someone in some way, even though you might not understand that.“

—  Jennifer Ashley American author 1974

Источник: The Duke's Perfect Wife

„Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? We weep because the only way everything could ever be alright is in fiction. We weep because what we've seen can't be true, no matter how badly we wish it were. We weep at the truth.“

—  Адам Левин singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer from the United States 1979

Источник: The Instructions

„History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.“

—  Jill Lepore American historian 1966

„I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been.“

—  William Saroyan American writer 1908 - 1981

"One Day in the Afternoon of the World" (1964)
Контексте: I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.

„I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven“

—  Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

„Come to your senses, defenses are not the way to go / And you know, or at least you knew / Everything's strange, you've changed and I don't know what to do / To get through“

—  Jonathan Larson American composer and playwright 1960 - 1996

Superbia

„Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.“

—  Norton Juster, книга The Phantom Tollbooth

Источник: The Phantom Tollbooth

„I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.“

—  Cheryl Strayed, книга Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Источник: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

„I see everything in a grotesque way.“

—  Aubrey Beardsley English illustrator and author 1872 - 1898

From an interview given in 1894, as quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 220
Контексте: I see everything in a grotesque way. When I go to the theatre, for example, things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them — the people on the stage, the footlights, the queer faces and garb of the audience in the boxes and stalls. They all seem weird and strange to me. Things have always impressed me in this way.

„I already feel like I’ve come a long way. If this is what’s happened so far, if I keep on the line I’m going, then perhaps many other great things will happen. It’s just the beginning. “

—  Себастьян Стэн 1983

„But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.“

—  Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

Источник: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship