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As soon as we started looking at them, we saw the most remarkable situation. My first thought was, "Great guns! Something's gone wrong with the apparatus!" But then we got later North American tapes and everything seemed normal again.
james van allen— On the first results from Explorer I, Reach Into Space, Time, 1959-05-04.
Something's burning somewhere. Does anybody care?
harry chapin— What Made America Famous?
Something's going on. It has to do with that number. There's an answer in that number.
— Maximillian Cohen, in ? (1998), written by Darren Aronofsky, Sean Gullette, and Eric Watson
Calvin: That's the problem with nature. Something's always stinging you or oozing mucus on you. Let's go watch TV.
bill watterson— Bill Watterson, Something under the bed is drooling (1988)
The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, "Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home." And the sign that Something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
thornton wilder— Barnaby, in Act 4
But Something's missing ( Aber etwas fehlt ).
bertolt brecht— Jim[my] Mahoney, in Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1930)
If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell "friend," I say to them that Something's the matter with the way you spell friend.
richard feynman— lecture III: "This Unscientific Age"
If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell "friend," I say to them that Something's the matter with the way you spell friend.
richard feynman— Richard Feynman, The Meaning of It All (1999)
I don't seek discomfort . But, very often, you realise that what you fear is actually quite ephemeral; Something's different, Something's unfamiliar; therefore, it must be worse.
— Michael Palin, in Michael Palin: 'I'm just curious about the world'
