something Quotes

″Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.″

’’There’s a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It’s not something you can give; it’s something they have to build. ”

“Coach Graham worked in a no-coddling zone. Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can’t do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.’’

“The great value of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

“The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary.”

“You want to be fooled. But you wouldn’t clap yet. Because making something disappear isn’t enough; you have to bring it back. That’s why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call “The Prestige”.”

“We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us. ”

“Because when something happens, she’s the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.”

“We have to see Darby Thorne again. We owe her something that can’t be written on a check.”

″ ‘Who are you?’ I whispered. He shrugged again. ‘Something,’ he said. ‘Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel.’ He laughed. ‘Something like that.’ ”

“We pile onto the street and shoot out a riot of looks and hunches, we sniff about, hook up our notions, pace our minds up and down the street, and wait for something to happen- because something always will.”

“I feel like I’m always searching for someone, or something.”

“Something very strange was happening to Treehorn. The first thing he noticed was that he couldn’t reach the shelf in his closet that he had always been able to reach before...”

“It happened when Ethan could not let Julian face disaster alone. And it happened because Julian valued something important in himself and saw in the other three something he also valued.”

“It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map. For a second, Mr Dursley didn’t realize that he hadn’t seen - then he jerked his head around to look again. There was a tabby cat standing on the corner of Privet Drive.but there wasn’t a man in sight. What could he have been thinking of? It must have been a trick of the light. Mr Dursley blinked an stared at the cat. It stared back.”

“But that is all right, because there is always something just as exciting to try next! ”

“Plop! Something lands on me. Help! My voice gets stuck. He’s got me. He’s really got me this time. I can feel his hands around my throat. Let go! I go to grab his hands. Get off me! Hang on, they’re my hands. They’re my hands around my neck. You idiot, let go of yourself!”

“He lay quiet and looked around the cave again. Now that his eyes were used to it he could see further into the dark part of the cave. There was somebody there! Or Something!”

Mr Majeika can behave just like any ordinary teacher if he wants to, but something has to be done about Hamish Bigmore, the class nuisance, and so he uses a little magic to turn him into a frog.

‘There is something you can do, sir,’ said one of the men. ‘You can fire it with the duck inside.’ ‘No, no, no,’ said the General. ‘We’ll think of something else. I know, we’ll borrow a gun.”