Top 100 The Thing Quotes

#1. No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.

Robert Breault

The Thing Quotes #40
#2. What the fuck happened to you? [...] You look like you lost a fight with a lamprey. Hickey, hickey...bruise, bruise, bruise...bite. I thought that thing on your neck the other day was just a fluke. I guess not--looks like you get off on picking up a few souvenirs when you...get off. ~Crash

Jordan Castillo Price

The Thing Quotes #46
#3. If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you'll receive good.

Russell Simmons

The Thing Quotes #85
#4. Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up.

Isaac Mizrahi

The Thing Quotes #135
#5. I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You can't follow the form of the novel. It's a different thing completely. It's impossible. You just somehow have to find a structure for the whole thing. You have to crack that.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

The Thing Quotes #159
#6. I'm not a freak. That's a horrible thing to say."
"That's where you're going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy ... weirdos, that's what you two are ... "
"You didn't think it was such a freak's school when you wrote the headmaster and begged him to take you.

J.K. Rowling

The Thing Quotes #214
#7. I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45.

Burt Ward

The Thing Quotes #221
#8. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, he can do the craziest thing that nobody would do who's not in love. Once you're in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.

Josh Hutcherson

The Thing Quotes #228
#9. There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing.

Mira Grant

The Thing Quotes #246
#10. Spouse or collaborator, it comes to the same thing. And there is work to be done. Always, always work to be done." -David Leavitt, "Partition," _The Indian Clerk_

David Leavitt

The Thing Quotes #336
#11. The first thing which will be judged among a man's deeds on the Day of Resurrection is the Prayer. If this is in good order then he will succeed and prosper but if it is defective then he will fail and will be a loser.

Muhammad

The Thing Quotes #348
#12. Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

Julius Rosenwald

The Thing Quotes #350
#13. The next question is how? How does news find us?
What you need is a certain critical literacy about the fact that you are almost always subject to an algorithm. The most powerful thing in your world now is an algorithm about which you know nothing about.

Kelly McBride

The Thing Quotes #361
#14. One thing both my parents agree on is this: if people are doing something unfair, it's part of our job to remind them what's fair, even if sometimes it still doesn't turn out the way we want it to.

Kelly Jones

The Thing Quotes #378
#15. When the Russian kettlebell meets an American steak, it is a beautiful thing.

Pavel Tsatsouline

The Thing Quotes #390
#16. The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

May Sarton

The Thing Quotes #404
#17. When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control is your off-ice preparation.

Angela Ruggiero

The Thing Quotes #464
#18. I believe the last thing I read at night will likely manifest when I'm sleeping. You become what you think about the most.

Daymond John

The Thing Quotes #499
#19. It is a horrible, terrible thing, the worst thing, to watch somebody you love die right in front of you and not be able to do nothing about it.

Kate DiCamillo

The Thing Quotes #542
#20. The designer must be able to see - make a concentrated effort to absorb the essence of the project. Seeing is a very difficult thing to do. Most people "look" at a lot of thing but never "see" anything. Looking is emotional; seeing is an intellectual process.

Albert Hadley

The Thing Quotes #634
#21. If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Ray Bradbury

The Thing Quotes #650
#22. Humans like to look. I think that voyeurism and exploitation are often used in the same sentence. But, in my opinion, voyeurism is a beautiful and delightful thing. There is nothing more intimate than really looking at someone.

Laurel Nakadate

The Thing Quotes #695
#23. You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

Ang Lee

The Thing Quotes #703
#24. Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.

Derek Bailey

The Thing Quotes #751
#25. To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

Mark Twain

The Thing Quotes #754
#26. The most important thing I do is I'm a dad.

Stuart Scott

The Thing Quotes #795
#27. In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

Swami Vivekananda

The Thing Quotes #809
#28. Andy [Warhol] was on the scene, but he wasn't an artist at first; he was more an illustrator. He was always surrounded by about ten people who worshipped him. He'd go to a party and they would all come along. But he was drawing shoes and that sort of thing.

Claes Oldenburg

The Thing Quotes #958
#29. If you're a good actor, then you channel enough of yourself into the character so that you do get that other thing.

Henry Cavill

The Thing Quotes #991
#30. There is no such thing as a natural puncher. There is a natural aptitude for punching and that is different. Nobody is born the best. You have to practice and train to become the best.

Cus D'Amato

The Thing Quotes #1018
#31. All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

David Bailey

The Thing Quotes #1113
#32. I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

Johnny Depp

The Thing Quotes #1170
#33. He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

Baruch Spinoza

The Thing Quotes #1179
#34. You can give your message to anybody, to everybody, from anywhere, from everywhere, in every way possible. The only thing you have to consider is this: Let your message be simple and understandable!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

The Thing Quotes #1200
#35. The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power.

Daniel Keys Moran

The Thing Quotes #1212
#36. To stop drinking, all you have to do is sit. In 100 percent of the documented cases of alcoholism worldwide, the people who recovered all shared one thing in common, no matter how they did it: They didn't do it.

Augusten Burroughs

The Thing Quotes #1296
#37. I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.

Danny Kaye

The Thing Quotes #1302
#38. I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.

Ornette Coleman

The Thing Quotes #1309
#39. Sometimes what you're most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free. -

Cecelia Ahern

The Thing Quotes #1401
#40. I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace.

Jimmy Carter

The Thing Quotes #1405
#41. It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.

Michael Pollan

The Thing Quotes #1409
#42. When we approached the project, the very first thing we did was take each character and say, "Okay, where would this character be?" We didn't want them to be caricatures of themselves. We wanted them to live and breathe, and grow with the audience and with us.

Jon Hurwitz

The Thing Quotes #1489
#43. In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy-tale. This is about REAL WITCHES. The most important thing you should know about REAL WITCHES is this. Listen very carefully. Never forget what is coming next.

Roald Dahl

The Thing Quotes #1521
#44. The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the words, 'We've always done it that way,' I urge you to wash out your mouth with soap.

Anna Quindlen

The Thing Quotes #1537
#45. It was incredibly cheesy set with torches [TV's Survivor] - it looked like the lobby of the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland. And here as some guy pulling names out of a coconut, and I said, 'This is the thing that has made American mass media stop in their tracks?

Tom Hanks

The Thing Quotes #1632
#46. But for all we've lost, hope is in fact one thing we Japanese have regained. The great earthquake and tsunami have robbed us of many lives and resources. But we who were so intoxicated with our own prosperity have once again planted the seed of hope. So I choose to believe.

Ryu Murakami

The Thing Quotes #1660
#47. I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.

Gene Wolfe

The Thing Quotes #1664
#48. The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Ernest Hemingway,

The Thing Quotes #1687
#49. Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.

Frederick Buechner

The Thing Quotes #1728
#50. What are they going to do about it?"
"So far? Get drunk. Yell at each other or at us. Design theoretical judicial systems. Most of them seem to want the whole thing to just go away sot hey can get on with their research."
Murtry chuckled. "God bless the eggheads.

James S.A. Corey

The Thing Quotes #1746
#51. So much of what folks want in the world turns out to be just a thing they say. Words change the way you feel for a small time and that just about goes as far as it can go toward being a true thing.

Robert Bausch

The Thing Quotes #1781
#52. I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.

Kiefer Sutherland

The Thing Quotes #1812
#53. You may have learned from your mother or any other hunted woman. Smiling at devils is a useful learned thing. Swallowing discomfort down in spades. Holding it tight in your belly. Ageing on the inside only. Keeping it forever sexy.

Yrsa Daley-Ward

The Thing Quotes #1830
#54. The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it ... I think the great danger in life is not showing up.

Rachel Naomi Remen

The Thing Quotes #1864
#55. I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting class in New York called Black Nexxus. For someone who's slightly shy or self-conscious, it's the most frightening thing you can do.

Hannah Ware

The Thing Quotes #1920
#56. I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.

Tracey Gold

The Thing Quotes #1962
#57. Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.

Major Owens

The Thing Quotes #2157
#58. Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.

Annie Lennox

The Thing Quotes #2174
#59. AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.

Joe Perry

The Thing Quotes #2198
#60. I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.' In comedy, the best thing you can say is, 'I think it's funny.'

Bob Newhart

The Thing Quotes #2206
#61. Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is ... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.

Donna Ball

The Thing Quotes #2240
#62. Be where you are. Look around. Just look, don't interpret. See the light, shapes, colors, textures. Be aware of the silent presence of each thing. Be aware of the space that allows everything to be.

Eckhart Tolle

The Thing Quotes #2270
#63. It doesn't feel like it was me who was doing that thing. And it's so hard to feel responsible for something you don't remember. So I never feel bad enough. I feel bad, but the thing that I've done - it's removed from me. It's like it doesn't belong to me.

Paula Hawkins

The Thing Quotes #2318
#64. Everything about this is embarrassing" she said. "D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

Philip Pullman

The Thing Quotes #2343
#65. What a bitter, bitter thing is the service of Satan, even in this world!

George Muller

The Thing Quotes #2401
#66. I didn't want to do my mathematics homework back home. Or mend the fence or mind the chickens. But I did it anyway. Just because a person doesn't want to do a thing doesn't mean they ought to shirk.

Catherynne M Valente

The Thing Quotes #2435
#67. You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.

Arthur Lydiard

The Thing Quotes #2443
#68. You don't need to know the odds. You need to know how to do the thing you're trying to do. And then you need to do it.

Ann Leckie

The Thing Quotes #2483
#69. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth
we call it life.

Anne Carson

The Thing Quotes #2485
#70. A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and promote artists that mean something.

Dave Grohl

The Thing Quotes #2507
#71. The thing is, what I'm tryin' to say is -
they do get on a lot better without me, I can't help them any. They ain't mean. They buy me everything I want, but it's now - you've-got-it-go-play-with-it. You've got a roomful of things. I-got-you-that-book-so-go-read-it.

Harper Lee

The Thing Quotes #2525
#72. The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you ... If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you.

Annie Besant

The Thing Quotes #2527
#73. You know what the worst thing about adults is?"

"No."

"They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

The Thing Quotes #2599
#74. The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

B.H. Liddell Hart

The Thing Quotes #2624
#75. It's very strange to be completely naked in public," said Jacob. "It isn't something Americans ordinarily do."
"I can't say it's very English, either," replied Henry.
"It's a Scottish thing, though, isn't it? With all the kilts and all that.

Caleb Crain

The Thing Quotes #2637
#76. The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.

Frank Langella

The Thing Quotes #2679
#77. It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.

Jonathan Tropper

The Thing Quotes #2689
#78. That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.

A.R. Rahman

The Thing Quotes #2713
#79. Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.

Alan Jay Lerner

The Thing Quotes #2728
#80. I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.

Lukas Haas

The Thing Quotes #2733
#81. It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

James Coburn

The Thing Quotes #2741
#82. There's not a word I can say to you that you have not already though of, Mamah... There are ways to hold the thing up in the light and see a hundred facets, and knowing you, you've found a hundred and one.

Nancy Horan

The Thing Quotes #2883
#83. You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.

Chris Klein

The Thing Quotes #2913
#84. Hair is the greatest thing to experiment with because it's not permanent. If I didn't like my colour, I'd just change it.

Linda Evangelista

The Thing Quotes #2919
#85. Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.

Shirley Maclaine

The Thing Quotes #2954
#86. In most women's lives, everything, even the greatest sorrow, comes down to a question of 'I haven't got a thing to wear'.

Marcel Proust

The Thing Quotes #2972
#87. They just expected it to you know ... Paul, Steve and I could have hired our own publicist, if we wanted to, but I kind of liked the way it was more of a cult thing and those that liked it, liked it, you know what I mean?

Amy Sedaris

The Thing Quotes #2975
#88. It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.

Michio Kaku

The Thing Quotes #3007
#89. In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he smiles at me, just a glancing, faint thing before he turns back to Tommy. I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.

Maggie Stiefvater

The Thing Quotes #3034
#90. Something out of childhood whistles through this space, a sense of games and half-made selves, but it's not that you're pretending to be someone else. You're pretending to be exactly who you are. That's the curious thing.

Don DeLillo

The Thing Quotes #3037
#91. I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.

Joel-Peter Witkin

The Thing Quotes #3041
#92. There are more people with cell phones in the world than any other thing on the planet. There are billions of cell phones. There's not not billions of radios.

Spencer Pratt

The Thing Quotes #3061
#93. I am a professional liar. I am two people. I take pleasure in experimenting with people's emotions, people who trust me, putting their understanding of me in doubt. Basically, I am the best thing that could have happened to you.

A.M. Bakalar

The Thing Quotes #3062
#94. At this stage of my life, I had reached the conclusion that I would never be the protagonist of any story. The only thing I could hope for was to make an appearance in somebody else's.

Cesar Aira

The Thing Quotes #3083
#95. Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

Arthur Eddington

The Thing Quotes #3151
#96. I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.

Meghan Daum

The Thing Quotes #3163
#97. Breaking him until he was as broken as me was the only thing that would ever be enough.

R.K. Lilley

The Thing Quotes #3169
#98. The best thing to do is try and make sure you're getting something at your end. We had stretches where we didn't get that.

Bo Ryan

The Thing Quotes #3180
#99. Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

Carson McCullers

The Thing Quotes #3192
#100. It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.

Joe Gibbs

The Thing Quotes #3208

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