To Be Quotes

• I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Night
  • Old
  • Creature

• No one is ever who they purport to be.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • To Be
  • No One
  • Purport

• Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing.

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • Wishes
  • Get
  • Specific

• Parents, family, and friends tell you that you can be whatever you want to be. But what they really mean is whatever you want as long as it fits in their neat, little box. And for a woman exercising her command, that box is restrictive as hell. Destroy that box and the horse it rode in on. Light it on fire for good measure. Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

  

  Amerie
  • Want
  • Sure
  • Box

• I’d be happy to be the person that said, “Right. We all die,” And then everybody dies. And I die. I’d be well happy. That’d please me. Man’s made too many mistakes and the majority don’t deserve to be alive because they’ve fucked it up so much for everybody else. So I’d like to see them pay the price, and I’d be happy to go with them.

  

  Carl McCoy
  • Happy
  • Die
  • All

• People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

  

  Noel Coward
  • Used
  • To Be
  • Opera

• You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be.

  

  Andrew McMahon
  • Struggle
  • To Be
  • Illusory

• I'm awkward around girls.

  

  Jamie Bell
  • Girls
  • To Be
  • Awkward

• 'It's much better to understand than to be understood,' from my mom.

  

  Cara Santana
  • Better
  • Understand
  • Than

• I'm trying to be like the old Roc- A-Fella and Bad Boy, influencing people culturally but having hits at the same time.

  

  Hit-Boy
  • Trying
  • Hits
  • Bad Boy

• We don't always be the leaders that they want us to be.

  

  Isaiah Rashad
  • Want
  • To Be
  • Leaders

• If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

  

  Roger Caras
  • Life
  • Dog
  • Wrong

• When one of us gets lost, is not here, he or she must be inside us. There’s no place like that anywhere in the world.

  

  Rumi
  • Lost
  • To Be
  • Inside

• I don’t know from one album or one song to the next what I want to say, it’s what I feel at the time is necessary to say. I just want to be who I am in the moment and continue to evolve and be fluid.

  

  PJ Morton Maroon 5
  • Want
  • Song
  • Say

• I need to be in touch with the people. You've got to look in their eyes, and you've got to feel what they feel. You've got to engage people. All that we do and believe in is engaging people to touch, to heal, to look at each other's eyes, to feel with each other, to cry with each other, to moan, to groan, to rejoice, to be happy.

  

  Cecil Williams
  • People
  • Engage
  • In touch

• I'll tell you what it's like to be No. 1. I compare it to climbing Mount Everest. It's very difficult. Lives are lost along the way. You struggle and struggle and finally you get up there. And guess what there is once you get up there? Snow and ice.

  

  David Merrick
  • Best
  • Compare
  • Climbing

• Audiences can be very judgmental.

  

  Clive Owen
  • To Be
  • Audiences
  • Judgmental

• It's important to be able to be a girl and be a scientist and have neither of those things affect each other.

  

  Cara Santa Maria
  • Girl
  • Scientist
  • Affect

• However bad things seem to be, they can always get worse!

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Things
  • To Be
  • Seem

• We’ve always been fighters. There will always be something to fight against. So we’ll always fight, underdogs or not. If you put a wall in front of us, we don’t look to go round it. We just bust straight through.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Always
  • To Be
  • Fighters

• I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing

  

  Rumi
  • Blessing
  • Where
  • Walks

• Every year, you try to be more consistent. It's a long year and it's tough to do. But those great players do find it. That's something that I try to do.?

  

  Corey Perry
  • Players
  • To Be
  • Consistent

• I don't ever want to be where I can't just walk into a mall and do what I want without a crowd coming up around me.

  

  Delmon Young
  • Want
  • Around
  • Crowd

• I just wanted to be happy in what I did and I wasn’t for a while and I think everyone finds that thing eventually whether it’s way down the road or.. in some people happens earlier in life and it sounds really weird and it sounds like one of those “oh” moments,when I got to play in this band and did that it’s kinda when I…that time I was happy with what I was doing

  

  Bob Bryar My Chemical Romance
  • Happy
  • Play
  • Band

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