Top 100 Quotes About A Thing
#1. This is a thing I read by a scientist ... it said scientists now say that a man thinks about sex once every 7.3 seconds. Now, I know what I think every 7.3 seconds. It's just a bunch of meaningless gibberish.
Norm MacDonald
#2. A scarecrow was a thing of bold-faced tactics, out in the full light of day. A "murmet," the "r" softly rolling against the tongue spoke of murmuring stealth, as though it hunted marauding crows in the dark of twilight.
Kathleen Kent
#3. I go into the crowd almost everyday and I really really really despise it when people try to steal my shoes. That is a thing where they're proabably like 'oh, you can just go out and buy a new pair'. Like yeah, but those are my shoes. How would you feel if I tried to steal your shoes?
Jack Barakat
#4. The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other.
-Kheldar
David Eddings
#5. In college, I majored - I can't believe there is such a thing - in advertising. And I worked in advertising and PR for a while, and I liked it.
Traylor Howard
#7. If a thing be right, though you lose by it, it must be done; if it be wrong, though you would gain by it, you must scorn the sin for your Master's sake.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#8. There is such a thing as robbing a story of its reality by trying to make it too true ...
Oscar Wilde
#9. The moment you understand that there is an essence of purity in you, you will realize reality. The moment you realize reality you will have royalty, and then you don't have to say or do a thing. When your presence will work then you will emit wisdom.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#10. Perhaps he should have fallen to his knees and given thanks to the gods for their unlikely victory but the red harvest sword-hacked and arrow-stuck about the ruin did not look like a thing to give thanks for.
Joe Abercrombie
#11. No one's ready for a thing, until they believe that they can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief and not mere hope or wish.
Napoleon Hill
#13. The mind is a wonder and can accomplish many things. But it cannot accomplish the impossible. That is a thing only the heart can do.
Cameron Dokey
#14. Go naked. Trust me, if you don't have a thing to wear, that's the obvious choice.
Dave Freer
#15. Now everything is sold on the Internet and anybody at all who doesn't know a thing can give their opinion.
Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
#16. Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.
Carl Sagan
#17. The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and more slowly does it mature.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#18. I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!
Nick Jonas
#19. God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.
Quentin Crisp
#20. We take all these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. Which
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#21. Is trust such a thing to be earned and spent like silver?
Will Bly
#22. Those yellow eyes had seen the thing Ruby hid, even from herself. And when two people see a thing, for better or worse, it becomes real.
Cynthia Bond
#24. Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.
Alex Kapranos
#25. The eternal and essential truth is that until we love a thing in all its ugliness we cannot make it beautiful.
G.K. Chesterton
#26. There are certain things
as, a spider, a ghost,
The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three
That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most
Is a thing they call the Sea.
Lewis Carroll
#27. I'd watch my parents work and think, 'Yeah, I'm going to do that.' It wasn't even a thing. It's the only thing I know how to do.
Dakota Johnson
#28. I don't know that I understand the
human concept of jealousy. I'm not afraid of any other male taking you from me because no man who ever tried such a thing would live. But yes I hold what is mine close to me.
Tessa Dawn
#29. Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously ...
L.M. Montgomery
#30. is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, but a thing to be achieved.
S.M. Butler
#31. When a thing is taken away, you see more clearly what it brought to your life ...
Rachel Joyce
#32. The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.
J.C. Ryle
#33. I'm get really into jackets from movies, Keanu Reeves' jackets and that, I don't know why, I just have such a thing for them.
Ryan Jarman
#34. Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
George MacDonald
#36. Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.
Diane Ackerman
#38. If there is such a thing as platonic love between a man and a woman it is the result of a profound misunderstanding, a stifling of their true and authentic impulses.
George Clooney
#39. For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#40. 2. A disregard of competition. Whoever does a thing best ought to be the one to do it. It is criminal to try to get business away from another man - criminal because one is then trying to lower for personal gain the condition of one's fellow man - to rule by force instead of by intelligence.
Henry Ford
#41. They say that the best dog will turn cross if he be kept chained all the time, and it was the same with the man; he had not a thing to do all day but lie and curse his fate, and the time came when he wanted to curse everything.
Upton Sinclair
#42. The rain ... falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.
Mark Twain
#43. It's like he knows, he knows I have a thing for her.
Veronica Roth
#44. I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.
Antoni Tapies
#45. Is there such a thing as natural modesty?
Wisest is she who knows she does not know ...
True insight comes from within.
He who knows what is right will do right.
Jostein Gaarder
#46. When will we learn that childhood is in a great sense not simply a preparation for adult life but a thing unique and complete in itself - a masterpiece of God.
Carl Schmitt
#47. Felicity, if I die from the effects of eating sawdust pudding, flavoured with needles, you'll be sorry you ever said such a thing to your poor old uncle, said Uncle Roger reproachfully.
L.M. Montgomery
#48. When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.
Winston S. Churchill
#49. In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
Seamus Heaney
#50. Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing.
Wynton Marsalis
#51. Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whiskey, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.
Neal Stephenson
#52. Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end ... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.
Victor Papanek
#53. No point carrying useless ballast. It won't change a thing.
Joanne Harris
#54. The smell of burning firewood and the molding of organic, earthy substances reminded her of jumping wildly into the enormous leaf piles of autumns past and she suddenly wished that it was appropriate for someone her age to do such a thing.
Abby Slovin
#55. I don't know much,
But when push comes to shove,
I definitely don't believe,
There's such a thing as wrong love.
Chris Colfer
#56. The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important than she. These feelings and attitudes, expressed in the course of this hour, were symptoms of some profound disturbance.
Flora Rheta Schreiber
#57. An old mind is a thing to fear
The truth, in its purest form is boring
Through comedy, a person can hide his/her shortcomings and reach high ground.
Alberto A. Arcia
#58. I hope it hurts," she said vehemently. "Perhaps that will teach you not to be running about on rooftops! What possessed you to do such a thing?"
Sir Ross gave her a narrow-eyed glance. "For some reason the suspect didn't want to come down to the ground so that I could catch him more easily.
Lisa Kleypas
#59. When a thing is told to you and you can't remember it happening it doesn't count somehow. It is as though it had nothing to do with you. Remembering, that's what counts.
Brian Moore
#60. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.
John Lydon
#61. An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas Jefferson
#62. Back when they had been teenagers who thought love was a noun, a thing you could possess.
Marcus Sakey
#64. I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.
Anton Seidl
#65. In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.
Octavio Paz
#66. Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about.
A.A. Milne
#67. Most things in the world are not unexpected if one thinks carefully about them. Even something one would call unusual- if one things about it, it's really just a thing that was supposed to happen. Encountering unusual events often means you didn't think things through.
Paula McLain
#68. But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining you can be about it.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#69. A friend tells you the truth, that your breath stinks and you need a bath. An enemy tells you that you look great and you shouldn't change a thing.
Nikki Sixx
#70. That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Mosca's experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want to think it.
Frances Hardinge
#71. Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
Ramana Maharshi
#72. When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.
William Jennings Bryan
#73. I always get hats but never have the nerve to wear them. Hats are a thing that are really stylish, but you have to have the confidence to pull it off.
Amy Heckerling
#74. We know a thing by its opposite corollary; hot by having experienced cold; good by having decided what is bad; love by hate.
Sylvia Plath
#75. Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.
Margaret Atwood
#76. It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer's point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes.
Carmen Kass
#77. Where's the everlasting peace? Is there even such a thing? Or do we war like alien races war, eternally, against ourselves? I hope that's not right. I hope that's not how it all works. Beacon
Hugh Howey
#78. It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#79. A little child born yesterday
A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed.
Homer
#80. Iren broke the moment of quiet reflection. "He was a bad captian"
"But a worse bird" said Voleta.
Man, what a thing to say after a dude falls to his death.
Josiah Bancroft
#81. I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#82. And the nightmare-monster of her childhood revealed itself to be a thing of old clothes stuffed with straw.
Mercedes Lackey
#83. When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
Margaret Chase Smith
#84. For there is nothing so perfect as a thing with no ending and no beginning, such as a family of souls intertwined.
Genevieve Dewey
#85. There's a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country.
Robbie Robertson
#86. I can write, because writing - unlike choreography, architecture, or conquering kingdoms - is a thing you can do when you're lonely and poor, and have no infrastructure, i.e., a ballet troupe or some cannons.
Caitlin Moran
#87. I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss
Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss,
Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin;
Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#88. One of the main things that differentiates them [artists of 70s] from artists before is that they made albums based on the fact that they didn't care about the band as a thing in its own right. They cared about manipulating the recording and that became the album.
DJ Spooky
#89. There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.
David Cameron
#90. When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.
Robert Baden-Powell
#91. Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
Paracelsus
#92. This is a thing he can do. He can make himself into a gift. And what it makes me feel is humble. The
Alexis Hall
#93. Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.
Kristin Hannah
#95. I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.
Thomas A. Edison
#96. The door opened, and Ren emerged, and my heart did a thing.
Steven Brust
#97. Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.
Idries Shah
#98. I believe, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that there is such a thing as being too late, and when it comes to climate change, that hour is almost upon us.
Barack Obama
#99. What, playing with cards?" "It's a special kind of playing," said Twoflower. "It's called - " he hesitated. Language wasn't his strong point. "In your language it's called a thing you put across a river, for example," he concluded, "I think.
Terry Pratchett
#100. It's a mind going over things, revisiting things, maybe trying to refine the original perception. You have to keep going a thing over in order to make sense off it.
Paul Auster
