I'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else. Wisława Szymborska
Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy. Albert Einstein
Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in. Grant Morrison
Those services which the community will most readily pay for it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man. Henry David Thoreau
Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time. Martin Heidegger
It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for. Matt Taibbi