The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
Thomas Sowell

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. Wells

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
Casey Stengel

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
Leonard Cohen

To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
Tennessee Williams

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Robert Benchley

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
Sam Abell

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
Emma Goldman

I've never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid I, of course, used to crash parties. Crashing a wedding is difficult though because you have to have the suit, and you have to have information in case someone catches you. You have to know at least some names and something.
Christopher Walken

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
Georgia O'Keeffe

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.
Robert Kiyosaki

If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment.
Herb Brooks

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
Alfred Hitchcock

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
Gore Vidal

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?
Gore Vidal

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
Edward de Bono

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.
Dean Koontz

It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.
Calvin Klein