Top 100 Thing About Quotes
#1. The great thing about making picture books is that you can make absolutely anything you want happen. It's a bit like making a film, but you don't need lots of money for actors and costumes - you just need pens, paper, and your imagination.
Mini Grey
#2. ...the most beautiful thing about tango is that it doesn't belong to anyone. It doesn't, but we'd like it to. We'd like to own it, each of us individually. We are all fiercely territorial about it. By being here despite the pain of it, we're saying: I'm holding my ground...
Kapka Kassabova
#3. The thing about writing is not to talk, but to do it; no matter how bad or even mediocre it is, the process and production is the thing, not the sitting and theorizing about how one should write ideally, or how well one could write if one really wanted to or had the time.
Sylvia Plath
#4. The thing about roads is sometimes you happen upon them again. Sometimes you get another chance to travel down the same path.
Jill Santopolo
#5. The thing about a pick-up line is, even if it works, then what? I just figure you unapologetically be yourself, and if it works, cool.
Skylar Astin
#6. The funny thing about memory is that it can't be fully trusted, and yet, in the end, it's the only truth we have.
Mindscape
#7. The startling thing about her simplifying instinct was that the more she did away with fashion in search for comfort and the more she passed over conventions as she obeyed spontaneity, the more disturbing her incredible beauty became and the more provocative she become to men.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#8. I think the great thing about social media is it gives people access to you on a totally personal level that they didn't have before, so it's really important, and it's a great way to get people involved and excited about what you're doing.
Ashley Wagner
#9. You know better than that the only thing about you that scares me is
your absence, Alaric
Alyssa Day
#10. The thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don't necessarily see themselves as villains. Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He's doing what he needs to do.
Adrian Hodges
#11. An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.
Terence McKenna
#12. The pleasant thing about fighting with the Spaniards, Mr Ellis,' said Jack, smiling at his great round eyes and solemn face, 'is not that they are shy, for they are not, but that they are never, never ready.
Patrick O'Brian
#13. The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.
Sebastian Faulks
#14. Here's the thing about a spit take: In the movies, they're hysterical. In real life, they're just messy.
Alice Clayton
#15. The only good thing about the 1980s was that they invented rap, but rap didn't get good until 1992, so what does that say about the 1980s.
Drew
#16. He had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister. All
Ernest Hemingway,
#17. That's the thing about terrorism - it works. Especially for the terrorists - they might not get what they want but it feels damn good trying.
Craig Ferguson
#18. Everybody says I can't act. They said the same thing about Elizabeth Taylor. And they were wrong. She was great in A Place in the Sun. I'll never get the right part, anything I really want. My looks are against me. They're too specific.
Marilyn Monroe
#19. That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#20. I know that. But here's the thing about baseball, Kitten. There's an expiration date for every single one of us who plays and we all know it. Eventually my baseball career will come to an end, and I can live with that. But I can't live without you.
J. Sterling
#21. Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.
Sarah Zettel
#22. I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.
Brian May
#23. The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.
Scott Bakula
#24. The main thing about awards in movies is that they can serve as an economic surge for the film. If you're movie gets nominated for any award it does it a big favour. People might go and see it again ... they won't give up on it.
Morgan Freeman
#25. The great thing about "Shoot 'Em Up, Baby" is that it's the first song that we went and recorded [with Andy Kim].
Kevin Drew
#26. I've never bothered about my color. I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love. Maybe. I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.
Tina Turner
#27. (A male human's testicles were the most attractive thing about him, I realized, and vastly unappreciated by humans themselves, who would very often rather look at almost anything else, including smiling faces.)
Matt Haig
#28. The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more.
Gary Cole
#29. The great thing about McDonald's is that they have a lot of different things on the menu. I love their salads.
Beyonce Knowles
#30. The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.
Laurie Anderson
#31. The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice.
Steve Aylett
#32. Anything that inhibits, impedes, or prevents this movement toward the Ultimate Complexity is evil. The wonderful thing about this definition of good and evil is that it is both objective and universally acceptable.
Gregory David Roberts
#33. That's the thing about things. They tend to happen.
Darynda Jones
#34. That was the thing about thoughts. They thought themselves, and then dropped into your head in the hope that you would think so too.
Terry Pratchett
#35. But that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense.
Mira Grant
#36. I'll tell you one thing about history - we leave a lot of carnage in our wake.
Eowyn Ivey
#37. But here's the thing about having been in love that first time: I always knew, every time after, that what I was faced with was a pale imitation. I never found someone else I could trust with my soul. After that first time, nothing else was acceptable.
Courtney Milan
#38. The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.
Nick Cannon
#39. I often thought the most unfair thing about having Moebius wasn't Moebius at all, but other people's inability to define me by anything else.
David Arnold
#40. The hardest thing about being a full time chef is leaving my work behind when I go home at night. I'll toss and turn about a menu item or forget to order produce and wake up at 4 A.M. in a cold sweat over some artichokes.
Alexandra Guarnaschelli
#41. The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.
James Patterson
#42. Here was the thing about traveling down an uncharted river: You could only say how long you'd been traveling; you could never say how long it would be.
Louis Bayard
#43. It's the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.
Amanda Craig
#44. the one good thing about falling apart is how we are never put back the same
Beau Taplin
#45. That's the fun thing about fashion: it changes. One day, we're into short, the next we're into full length for day, or half short and long.
Jason Wu
#46. The best thing about this journey is I know I have it in me to keep going. Battle-tested, you know? Now, my heart laughs at the word 'quit'.
Ace Antonio Hall
#47. The funny thing about the boy who gave away his loaves and fish is that he, too, ended the day with a full stomach.
Mark Hart
#48. The really heroic thing about Nick Hornby is that he lives in north London and rarely leaves it ... Every English writer needs their corner that is forever England - but only a few brave men choose to make that corner Highbury.
Zadie Smith
#49. I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
Erica Jong
#50. The exciting thing about seeing a new show is that you are taken on a journey of surprises, if you know what's coming it takes away the fun.
Kerry Ellis
#51. The nice thing about building up your own studio is if Hollywood decides to hate faith-based films, it doesn't matter to us. We have an audience and continue to serve that audience.
David A.R. White
#52. My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys' butts, I think it's a really fun, make-believe world to play.
Candice Accola
#53. Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don't really recognize race the way my generation does.
Viola Davis
#54. The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
Barack Obama
#55. The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.
Diana Gabaldon
#56. The thing about smart mother fuckers is that sometimes, they sound like crazy mother fuckers to stupid mother fuckers ...
Robert Kirkman
#57. For me the best thing about winning an award is when the people cheer for your win. When you can see that the people are really happy that you are winning something, that's the most reward thing in the world.
Busta Rhymes
#58. I've always had this thing about it not really mattering where you're from, because there's always been this big cloud over America saying you have to live in L.A. or you have to live in New York to make it. I always knew it didn't matter as long as you had the songs.
Brandon Flowers
#59. The great thing about knowing stuff is that anyone can do it.
Ken Jennings
#60. The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.
Jean Paul Gaultier
#61. The worst thing about this illness isn't the things it makes me believe, or what it makes me do. It's not the control that it has over me, or even the control it's allowed other people to take.
Worse than all of that is how I have become selfish.
Nathan Filer
#63. the thing about having
an alcoholic parent
is an alcoholic parent
does not exist
simply
an alcoholic
who could not stay sober
long enough to raise their kids
Rupi Kaur
#64. The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
Karen Fairchild
#65. The thing about ballet that I never knew about is that it's one of the most excruciating sports that I've ever been a part of. I say sports because they train constantly, every single day.
Mila Kunis
#66. And another regrettable thing about death is the ceasing of your own brand of magic, which took a whole life to develop and market - the quips, the witticisms, the slant adjusted to a few, those loved ones nearest the lip of the stage . . . - JOHN UPDIKE, "Perfection Wasted
Carole Radziwill
#67. You know, the thing about life and love is that they are both ever-changing while people seldom are. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#68. The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.
Gregory Maguire
#69. The thing about Reggie (Jackson) is that you know he's going to produce. And if he doesn't, he's going to talk enough to make people think he's going to produce.
Catfish Hunter
#70. In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.
Tina Fey
#71. What do you think the most gruelin' thing about evolution is?" "I don't know. Tell me," I said. "It's being unable to pick and choose. Nobody chooses to evolve. It's like floods and avalanches and earthquakes. You never know what's happening until they hit, then it's too late." I
Haruki Murakami
#72. The thing about life is that life gets in the way.
Al Daltrey
#73. Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.
Sydney Pollack
#74. The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story - a script is meant to be made into a movie.
Maggie Carey
#75. The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.
Humphrey Carpenter
#76. The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
V.S. Naipaul
#77. The hardest thing about going to college should not be paying for it.
Bernie Sanders
#78. The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
Colleen McCullough
#79. Funny thing about love, ain't it? Sometimes it saves you and sometimes, like right then, even love isn't enough.
Eden Butler
#80. The thing about second chances", Mom interrupted, laying a hand on my arm "is we always walk into them assuming we'll feel better, when nine times out of ten things get worse before the ever get better.
Rachel Van Dyken
#81. I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.
Christopher Walken
#82. The unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
Phyllis Bottome
#83. I would like to curl up and become a small thing. About this big. And still. Very still. Have you ever become so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?
Sarah Ruhl
#84. That is the magical thing about books. You can listen to all the greatest people who have ever lived, anywhere in the world, in any civilization. You can see what is completely different about them, things you never imagined.
Anne Perry
#85. The great thing about treating borderline patients is that it is like having a supervisor always in the room.
Marsha M. Linehan
#86. She drove too fast, and she braked too late, but the thing about Isabel was that she always managed to pull herself up before she went over the edge.
Maggie Stiefvater
#87. The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality.
Muddy Waters
#88. The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places.
Moby
#89. That's the thing about pain," Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. "It demands to be felt.
John Green
#90. The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.
Shuler Hensley
#91. The thing about your past ... it never stays there. We just think it does until the time comes for it to reveal itself in all its gory shame. And there's nothing, absolutely nothing a person can do, but watch
Rachel Van Dyken
#92. The great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors.
G. Willow Wilson
#93. The nice thing about being away from home is the feeling of excitement when returning to it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#94. I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers.
Daniel Radcliffe
#95. I don't particularly like going on about being gay or making a big thing about it, but I think it's a bit of a pain to be secretive about it.
Evan Davis
#96. The kipper was in a race for it's life, and it knew it. It used all the skill its Maker had given it and drew the creature far away from the craft, to be sacrifice in the end. It was a fitting task for the kipper. But ... there is a thing about monsters. They remember.
Kathy Frias
#97. That's the best thing about being an actor. If you're in a baseball movie, you walk away knowing way more about baseball, or if you're in a sci-fi film, you learn way more about Comic-Con, and so I loved all that.
Topher Grace
#98. And the thing about scared people is, whenever you ask them for advice, on whatever subject, they only ever have one thing to say to you: Run.
Caitlin Moran
#99. I don't believe a thing about a curse. I don't understand how we can talk about a curse. You have to remember, God is blessed and man can't curse, no matter how hard they try.
Ray Lewis
#100. Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
David Lynch
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