This was my countryand it may be yet, But something flew between me and the sun.

-Blunden, Edmund Charles
  'The Resignation'.

A feeling generally exists that the condition and disposition of the Working Class is a rather ominous matter at present; that something ought to be said, something ought to be done, in regard to it.

-Carlyle,Thomas
  Chartism, ch.1.

I don't care what you sayabout me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

-Cohan, George M(ichael)
Quoted in  John McCabe George M Cohan, The Man Who Owned Broadway (1973), ch.13.

Je pris garde que, pendant queje voulais ainsi penserque tout e¤  tait faux, il fallait ne¤  cessairement que moi, qui le pensais, fusse quelque chose. Deschamps I noticed that while I was trying to thinkeverything false, it must needs be that I, who was thinking this, was something.

-Descartes, Rene¤
  Discours de la me¤  thode (Discourse on Method), 4th discourse (translated by G E M  Anscombe and Peter Geach).

To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Sybil, bk.1, ch.5.

Something nasty in the woodshed.

-Gibbons, Stella Dorothea
   Aunt  Ada Doom. Cold Comfort Farm, ch.10.

ExcusemewhileIslip intosomething more comfortable.

-Harlow,Jean pseudonym of  Harlean Carpentier
  Line delivered in Hell's  Angels (screenplay by Howard Estabrook and Harry Behn).

   The most basic law of economics†that one cannot get something for nothing.

-Harrod, Sir Roy
  Towards a Dynamic Economics.

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep fromworking and yet feel you've done something.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  Letter to F Scott Fitzgerald,1  Jul.

Something there had been, something delicate, wild and far away. But it was shut out behind the doors of yesterday, lost beyond the hills.

-Hyde, Robin pseudonym of IrisGuiver Wilkinson
  The Godwits Fly, ch.3.

Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand.

-Pepys, Samuel
  Interview in Esquire, Dec.

There is no abstract art.You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

-Picasso, Pablo Ruiz y
  In an interview with Christian Zervos, editor of Cahiers d'Art, translatedbyAlfred H BarrJr in his Picasso: FiftyYears of His Art (1946).