Top 100 Put Things Quotes
#1. If we take seriously the idea that all objects recede interminably into themselves, then human perception becomes just one among many ways that objects might relate. To put things at the center of a new metaphysics also requires us to admit that they do not exist just for us. The Computer
Ian Bogost
#2. I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.
Sara Paretsky
#3. I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.
James Cameron
#4. If you want something you can't afford, think what else that money could buy: a week's groceries, a month's rent, or a weekend away. That will put things into perspective.
Sophie Kinsella
#5. That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things in order to tell a story and we thought the poets could learn from fiction writers something about developing a character over time who wasn't just you and also creating a narrative structure.
Edward Hirsch
#6. Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.
Charles Dickens
#7. We are meeting here to put an end to this cycle [of violence], to put things back in order and to put the wheel of peace on the right track. The task is very great, but our hopes are greater.
Hosni Mubarak
#8. We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don't care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they've done wrong.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#9. The rhythm of life is give and take. It is necessary to put things back into the system. To not do that is to foul your own nest - to use up all the natural resources greedily.
Frederick Lenz
#10. I do think there's always a way to put things right. If I didn't believe that I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning, I wouldn't eat breakfast; I wouldn't leave the TARDIS ever. I would never have left home. There is always something we can do.
Paul Magrs
#11. You put things off and then one morning you wake up and say - today I will change the oil in my truck.
Charles Portis
#12. I'm trying to put things in the best light, but a turd's a turd, whatever light it's in!
Joe Abercrombie
#13. Never mind what you feel. Think. Watch. Think again. And then one step at a time to put things right. As a mason puts one block at a time. To build solid and good. So with thought. Think. Build one thought at a time. Think solid. Then act. Is it?
Richard Llewellyn
#14. I put things in perspective and trust that everything is in its right place, be grateful that I'm healthy. Then throw on a cap and some killer red lipstick and gloss, that always seems to do the trick.
Sasha Jackson
#15. Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.
Robert Fulghum
#16. I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.
Kate Bush
#17. If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.
Nipsey Hussle
#18. Sometimes troubles make us stronger. We put things in perspective and find priorities.
Gail Gaymer Martin
#19. When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.
Peter McWilliams
#20. It was probably right after I made my comeback - after retiring post-2008 Olympics - when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective.
Alicia Sacramone
#21. I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with ... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.
Shane Warne
#22. One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
#23. Especially being around young people, ... It helps put things in the proper perspective as you return back to the chaos of politics.
Pat McCrory
#24. Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off.
So do fundamentalists.
Ed Seykota
#25. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.
Gloria Estefan
#26. Offstage, I couldn't put things into words, and that was the one thing I'd always been able to rely on. Putting my feelings into words and praying they wouldn't be able to get out again.
Carrie Fisher
#27. I don't know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you and go away.
Alan Arkin
#28. Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.
Annette Bening
#29. But that age; remember that age? They're not the same. They don't put things together. That's why half of what they do looks full-on certifiable, to you or me or any sane adult. Things don't make sense, when you're that age; you don't make sense. You stop expecting to.
Tana French
#30. People should allow me to be many things, really give me the room to put things in another dimension.
Klaus Nomi
#31. I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.
Sarah Dessen
#32. Clutter is caused by a failure to return things to where they belong. Therefore, storage should reduce the effort needed to put things away, not the effort needed to get them out.
Marie Kondo
#34. I am but little disposed to put things in writing. One almost always regrets doing so.
Charles Baudelaire
#35. Every two to three weeks, I was changing around my room. My room was made out of nothing, basically - a magazine, a little radio, a little bed - and I had the sensibility to put things together and match things in a certain way so that they were very special.
Riccardo Tisci
#36. This has been done by masters of the trade and Garcia had taken in every stock situation with amazing powers of retention, but he had not put things together right and had used extraordinary discernment in not adding one single touch of originality.
Felipe Alfau
#37. Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
Howard Hughes
#38. I guess I would say, it's okay to put things off until the very last minute as long as you know you've got them under control.
Karlie Kloss
#39. I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
J. B. Smoove
#40. When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be learned about that approach in real life
Carl Henegan
#41. When the soul-penetrating pathos she was beaming at me failed to prevent me from continuing to put things in boxes, the helper dog became increasingly alarmed. Over the ensuing few days, she slowly descended into psychological chaos. The simple dog remained unfazed.
Allie Brosh
#42. I wish you'd take his Ring. You'd put things to rights. You'd stop them digging up the Gaffer and turning him adrift. You'd make some folk pay for their dirty work.' 'I would,' she said. 'That is how it would begin. But it would not stop with that, alas! We
J.R.R. Tolkien
#43. What is it with men," I said. "Always wanting to put things in my ass." They
Greg Barth
#44. The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music. It's made me more likely to put things up quickly and treat it more like a magazine instead of a novel.
Trent Reznor
#45. I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.
Eli Roth
#46. It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.
Alison Mosshart
#47. Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.
Stephen Chbosky
#48. His gaze grew wistful, and he looked so young. 'I don't want to put things off, even though we haven't been together a really long time. I don't want to wait
you never know what can ... Look. I adore you, and I want a home. Again. With you.
Alice Clayton
#49. IMDb is kind of weird, because people can put things on there, but then I can't change it.
Missy Peregrym
#50. Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.
Ralph Merkle
#51. It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.
William Empson
#52. Now I don't put things in the boxes anymore. I'm just focusing on right now.
Robin Roberts
#53. I put things on shuffle a lot, which is probably why I don't have a very good idea of genre.
Oliver Sim
#54. When God stops whispering, they become desperate for someone who can put things right.
Anthony Doerr
#55. The only way to live life is to live in the present. You can't put things off thinking you'll have time later. There may not be a later. - Katarina Kozlov
Dannika Dark
#56. Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.
Robin Gibb
#57. Hard to put things right. You don't often get that chance. Sometimes all you can do is not get caught.
Donna Tartt
#58. I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them back to life
Helene Cixous
#59. We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.
Horace Mann
#60. We are organizers at heart. Most of us in the movement take great pride in being able to put things together.
Cesar Chavez
#61. Alice Cooper's weirdnesses must really make the kids feel violent. These kids are like my sister, young people of 14 or so who've come to enjoy themselves. So you put things like that in front of them, and I don't think it's right.
Robert Plant
#62. People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.
John Diamond
#63. What I love about Twitter specifically is that reciprocity is not guaranteed, nor expected. In other words, I can go one way. I can put things out. I don't have to respond to everybody.
Elizabeth Banks
#64. Witches do that, they put things you want in places you shouldn't go.
Claire King
#65. A little later, just for something to do, I picked up an old newspaper and read it. I cut out an advertisement for Kruschen Salts and stuck it in an old notebook where I put things from the papers that interest me.
Albert Camus
#66. He said Bailey taught him to love and to put things in perspective, to live for the present, to say I love you often and to mean it. And to be grateful for every day. It taught him patience and perseverance.
Amy Harmon
#67. Don't you ever have conversations where someone took a wrong turn at some point, and then it goes on and on and it becomes too late to put things right?
Nick Hornby
#68. Everyone's encouraged to put things in their own words, to discover new things. So there's definitely an element of dynamic improvisation, for sure, which I think gives those scenes some of their energy, some of their electricity.
Steve Zissis
#69. Most of us ... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.
Campbell Scott
#70. Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
Vikram Seth
#71. I smile as I walk toward her and nearly trip on a stack of haphazardly organized books.
Why don't I eve put things away around here?
C.J. Redwine
#72. I got into songwriting because I'm not very good at communicating sometimes, just my true words, so music was always my way of expressing myself and being able to put things into lyrics that I couldn't say necessarily in my everyday life.
LIZ
#73. You always put things at risk. If you fell out of a tree as a child, I'd clean you up and bandage your knees, and next I looked you'd be out climbing again. You never learned your lesson.
Oh, she'd learned her lesson. Climb harder.
Courtney Milan
#74. Anyway, so what he did was, he spread sheets for 100 yards and underneath them he'd put things so there were bumps and different levels and on top he'd put little bushes and if you didn't look to close, it looked like snow!
Rod Steiger
#75. Whether I'm writing solo stuff, electronic stuff, or material for Motley, I just write to write. I come up with it and put things in different piles.
Tommy Lee
#76. I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real.
Frederick Buechner
#77. At hotels, you are an actress. Absolutely. You can do what you want. Go where you want. I love my home too. But I love to arrive in a hotel. They have books, chocolate, food. I put things in the little refrigerator.
Sonia Rykiel
#78. Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
George Carlin
#79. And there would be a door to shut out the world, and places to put things that would be theirs.
Laini Taylor
#80. We've ghosts enough between us, Sassenach. If the evils of the past canna hinder us-neither then shall any fears of the future. We must just must put things behind us and get on. Aye?
Diana Gabaldon
#81. I'm not modest about myself. I know for a fact that I am good. But good in the sense that I can put things together. I expound vociferously to students of architecture and photography, the significance of design. A photograph is a design in which you assemble thoughts in your mind.
Julius Shulman
#82. It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for the next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day.
J.M. Barrie
#83. Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country - my dad was a factory guy - I try to put things on a screen that reflect reality. I don't mind if people want to argue with that, or think that's crazy.
Roger Ailes
#84. I can be the mayor; I can do it right now. I can go in there right now and put things together. I was truly anointed for that position and I wasn't mature enough in my spirit, in my manhood to handle that responsibility at the time it was given to me.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#85. I'd like to think, eight years ago, I was pretty humble and modest. But I think, with each year, you get more modest, more humble, more appreciative. The off the field tragedies put things in better perspective, but life happens to everybody, and I think we all just try to do the best we can.
Brett Favre
#86. There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while you feel that joy.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
#87. Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.
Tracy McMillan
#88. Most of our problems today are not that we don't know, but that we don't know how to put things together with the right zeal and grit to get something noble and leave noble footprints!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#89. A lot of people have many misconceptions about religion. I know what I'm talking about for myself. My mind is very ordered, so to speak. I need to put things in order.
Dion DiMucci
#90. I never thought I would get married and have kids. I thought I was going to be a gypsy actor, traveling all over the world playing the great roles. I ended up having a kid very young, and it put things in perspective.
Bobby Cannavale
#91. I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story - it's casting, editing, cinematography.
Bonnie Raitt
#92. Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
Ines De La Fressange
#93. It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.
Arca
#94. I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.
Ice Cube
#95. Acting is a weird profession. It's very disquieting, and at the time it just made me so confused. It's only when you step away from a movie for several weeks or months that you start to put things in perspective.
Jesse Eisenberg
#96. We were in the market ahead of competition. We brought new products on the market ahead of competition. We rolled out our networks. We begged, borrowed, stole, put things out. And while they were never near perfect, they were first. And that gave us, to my mind, a lot of advantage.
Sunil Mittal
#97. My style icon actually is my three sisters. I love the way they dress and the way they put things together. I definitely get most of my style from them.
Kendall Jenner
#98. Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.
Douglas Adams
#99. Evaluating countries is senseless and I would never put things in those terms, but that some of America's advances, particularly in the area of free speech, that have been achieved by centuries of popular struggle, are to be admired.
Noam Chomsky
#100. I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.
Carol Windley
