Thing Not Quotes

#1. Oh, we"re just scattering some dead fish about town, breaking some windows, photographing naked guys, hanging out in sky-scraper lobbies at three-fifteen in the morning, that kind of thing. "Not much", I answered.

John Green

#2. A thing is a thing, not what is said of a thing

Birdman

#3. Humility is a do thing, not a feel thing. Humility is an action, not a style.

James MacDonald

#4. Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we influence nature, we influence ourselves; when we change nature, we change ourselves.

Daniel Botkin

#5. It was one thing not taking an old bitterness to a new country. It was another to actually pay to send back Libyan Semtex to blow up my home.

A.A. Gill

#6. The government should do its job. The government's job is, in fact, to run the country, to manage the country, to govern the country. And governance is an important thing, not application where it suits one so, to micro control where it suits them on the other hand.

Ratan Tata

#7. 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

#8. I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

John Lennon

#9. It's a rare thing not to have been bonny
once.

Samuel Beckett

#10. A lot of people [in the U.S.] used to say punk really didn't change anything, but I think it did. It was an intangible thing, not a visible thing. It took us through to a new phase of music and a way of seeing things.

Steve Diggle

#11. Knowledge can be a dangerous thing - " "Not as dangerous as ignorance.

Anne Fortier

#12. Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

Mark Cuban

#13. What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

Victor Hugo

#14. Don't give up all your romance, Anne," he whispered shyly, "a little bit is a good thing - not too much, of course, but keep a little of it, Anne, keep a little of it.

L.M. Montgomery

#15. Retro looking stuff but a lot of these guys doing these shows are my age or younger. I was just disgusted. I hated being around that kind of thing. Not that it affected what I did because when it comes down to it I was doing my own show.

Jhonen Vasquez

#16. It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof over your head, for your meat and bread, for the shoes on your feet and the coat on your back.

Margo Lanagan

#17. I observe a lot of you drunk people. What I do is I just let myself go there and fully commit to that drunk thing, not that I've ever done that myself. I've had a lot of practice. Let's be honest.

Leslie Mann

#18. I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born

Margaret Atwood

#19. All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

Blaise Pascal

#20. The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.

Lewis Francis Herreshoff

#21. A once-robbed John, it won't remove its wallet from its trousers again until it gets the action it paid for. Nice try, sweet thing. NOT.

Karen Marie Moning

#22. I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

Natalie Massenet

#23. All of human unhappiness comes from one single thing: not knowing how to remain at rest in a room.

Blaise Pascal

#24. A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

Richard Hofstadter

#25. I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can."
-from "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life

Walt Whitman

#26. It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

Audrey Hepburn

#27. Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

Mike Mills

#28. Screaming, it's not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It's hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I'd rather just listen.

Ziggy Marley

#29. For me, the beauty of a person is a matter of the whole package. You have to look at the whole thing, not just a matter of outward appearance or whatever. It has to do with one's character, personality, upbringing and so on.

Gong Li

#30. I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be involved with what you have done.

Mick Jagger

#31. Humility's a real thing - not just a fine name for laziness.

Susan Glaspell

#32. Don't give up all your romance Anne, a little of it is a good thing - not too much of course-but keep a little of it - Matthew Cuthbert

L.M. Montgomery

#33. I admire people who just do the right thing, not looking to screw people up. I love all people.

Jessica Hahn

#34. you know that a soldier is the most holy of all humans because he is the most tested - most tested of all. I'll try to tell you. Look now - in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man

John Steinbeck

#35. Ivy still had her tree up in the living room, and we exchanged presents when we felt like it, not on a specific date. Usually that was about an hour after I got back from shopping. Delayed gratification was Ivy's thing, not mine.

Kim Harrison

#36. I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.

David Cameron

#37. Real movement in the Kerry campaign now. His poll numbers are moving, donations are moving, endorsements are moving. The only thing not moving is his hair.

Jay Leno

#38. I thought you were supposed to be flying this thing, not pleasuring it.

Paul Gallagher

#39. It is a bad thing not to be able to stand solitude. It is a wonderful thing to embrace it, and I was ready.

Carine McCandless

#40. I am standing still," Kelly said. "What, does that thing not work when I'm talking? It gets distracted? It's a metal detector with ADD?

Abigail Roux

#41. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in - that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#42. Thomas Aquinas said of suffering, as Aristotle had said of shame, that it was a thing not good in itself; but a thing which might have a certain goodness in particular circumstances. That is to say, if evil is present, pain at recognition of the evil, being a kind of knowledge, is relatively good.

C.S. Lewis

#43. But you have to direct yourself out of this thing, not into it. Don't fold up.

Don DeLillo

#44. Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.

Michel De Montaigne

#45. So is that it? Will I have to live the rest of my life like this? Not doing the right thing? Not saying the right words?"
"That's your choice. You can't change the past. Ah, but the future ... you own the future." The Greenman smiled. "So, you tell me ... what choice do you want to make now?

Jonathan Maberry

#46. Hope is a strange thing, not to mention a common prostitute name,...

Andy Paine

#47. I'm not a cinematic cinematic person. I go to the movies like I did back when I was a kid. I go to the movies and I sit down. If the music works, hmm. If it doesn't work, hmm. The whole concept of the thing, not as one piece here or there. For me, music is a large part.

Melvin Van Peebles

#48. Tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it ...

Sigrid Undset

#49. We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what's left is our memory of the memory.

Laura Dave

#50. It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.

Victor Hugo

#51. Is it a right thing or a mad thing not to re-connect, to avoid reading or writing because of what those will bring?

Bhanu Kapil

#52. The purpose of Art is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself. SYLVIE BERESFORD TODD

Kate Atkinson

#53. Computers absolutely changed my life. Before I had a computer, I had never written one thing. Not one thing. I'm a very bad speller and I was embarrassed by that. When I would type, the little mistakes would make me nutty, and I would never edit anything.

Penn Jillette

#54. I laughed, disarmed. "Shopping isn't really my thing. Not when there are bookstores to be plundered and tombs to be explored.

Kate Mulgrew

#55. What's the one thing - not two things, not three, not four, but the one big thing - in the box?

Bob P. Buford

#56. So if it seems like you're doing something different from what everyone else is doing, and if sometimes that feels hard, this is a good thing, not a bad thing.

Craig Groeschel

#57. I would say that the whole way that I have approached the body is as a space, not a thing - not an object to be improved, idealised or whatever, but simply to be dwelt in.

Antony Gormley

#58. You cannot create a thing-not a thought, an object, an event-no experience of any kind-which is outside of God's plan. For God's plan is for you to create anything-everything-whatever you want.

Neale Donald Walsch

#59. Business has to have capital.I think Wall Street is a necessary ingredient of the global economy, you've just got to keep people realizing that helping clients is the most important thing, not helping yourself.

John Kasich

#60. If I do decide to have a Girl's Gone Wild moment, I want it to be with some hot young thing, not a senior citizen-Jaycie Lerner

Natasha Larry

#61. Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes."
"Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing not a bad thing.

Ruth Ozeki

#62. I want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids.

Kevin Costner

#63. EDUCATION TEACHES US HOW TO THINK, INTELLIGENCE HOW TO QUESTION, AND OUR MORALITY WHAT TO DO WITH WHAT WE KNOW. BE WARY THEN OF THE EDUCATED, INTELLIGENT, AND AMORAL PERSON, FOR THEY WILL KNOW ONLY THAT THEY CAN DO A THING, NOT WHETHER THEY SHOULD.

Mark T. Barnes

#64. They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.

Robert Cormier

#65. The point is you are supposed to vote for the principle of the thing, not the itsy-bitsy detail about this percent and that percent.

Helen Fielding

#66. There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.

Donita K. Paul

#67. The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.

Rohinton Mistry

#68. A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure.

Leo Tolstoy

#69. People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.

Michael Josephson

#70. Love is a fluxuating thing, not a fixed thing. That's why we don't understand what's happening.

Jacque Fresco

#71. A relationship needs constant attention. It's a living thing, not just a habit. You've got to keep on top of it.

Matt Dunn

#72. The shovel is bigger than the spoon, but it can never ever do the work the spoon does. They both look similar; they both have different sizes but one more thing not to forget is that "they are important in their own roles"! Each is unique! You are unique too. Take the lead!

Israelmore Ayivor

#73. They tell you to do your own thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too.

Robert Cormier

#74. sometimes the glory was in rebuilding the broken thing, not the result but the process of trying.

Brit Bennett

#75. Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

Jerry Saltz

#76. Once they got into the idea of seeing directly for themselves they also saw there was no limit to the amount they could say. It was a confidence building assignment too, because what they wrote, even though seemingly trivial, was nevertheless their own thing, not a mimicking of someone else's.

Robert M. Pirsig

#77. Females create life, males end it. War, crime, violence, are primarily male franchises. Man shit. It's nature's supreme joke.
Deep in the womb, men start out as the good thing, and wind up as the crappy thing. Not all men. Just enough. Just enough to fuck things up.

George Carlin

#78. I personally don't believe in aliens. But, I do believe that there is something out there that is accountable for all these mysterious things that are going on: I think it is a spiritual thing not a material thing.

J. T. Walsh

#79. The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

Stanley Kubrick

#80. We all spend our lives kicking the crap out of ourselves for not being this way or that way, not having this thing or that thing, not being like this person or that person.

Shonda Rhimes

#81. I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you ... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.

Kathleen Hanna

#82. Ultimately, the problem is that sex is perceived as a personal, intimate thing, not in the realm of science. But that's not true. It's physiology; it's anatomy. It deserves to be studied.

Mary Roach

#83. That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#84. You can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.

Gary Keller

#85. It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.

Sharon Olds

#86. A thing not structured and organized contains more information, because it is more difficult to describe

Tor Norretranders

#87. Death is a funny thing. Not funny haha, like a Woody Allen movie, but funny strange, like a Woody Allen marriage.

Norm MacDonald

#88. I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

Brian Eno

#89. It is their everlasting switching that is the dangerous thing, not what they choose

Sheila Heti

#90. Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

John Corigliano

#91. The determination of a man set upon justice is a thing not lightly ignored.

Robert Jordan

#92. I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.

Marguerite Young

#93. We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

G.K. Chesterton

#94. I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.

Robin Trower

#95. The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#96. Some people experience rare moments when everything they believe is challenged. Or at least shaken up. Those moments stay with them. Surprise, real surprise, is an exotic thing not soon forgotten.

Gregory Miller

#97. Do the right thing. Not just when it's convenient for you, but all the time. Words to live by.

Jonathan Sadowski

#98. Faith is a vulnerable thing, not a battle.

David Bazan

#99. The Abbe Paul looked at Agnes rather as Alain had, with respect. 'How sensible. People are desperate to probe mysteries which for the most part are best left unprobed. It is the modern curse: this demented drive to explain every blessed thing. Not everything can be explained. Nor should be, I think.

Salley Vickers

#100. The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge