Thing Quotes

#1. The only thing written in stone is your epitaph.

Elaine Radley

#2. It's too sad to live eating theories. The best thing is to transmute wisdom into love.

Samael Aun Weor

#3. Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.

Patricia Arquette

#4. Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

Leonard Cohen

#5. Soul' is not a thing, but a quality or a dimension of experiencing life and ourselves.

Thomas Moore

#6. The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I have loved it most in the rain.

Wendell Berry

#7. I can't single out one thing that influenced me. My generation was influenced greatly by the manga that came out during our childhood.

Takashi Miike

#8. There's no downside to fame and people who whine about it make me sick. It's the greatest thing in the world.

Jerry Seinfeld

#9. Bitcoin represents a significant threat to the currency domination of the USA, which is the only thing propping up the nation's status as a worldwide superpower.

Rick Falkvinge

#10. I think you're never going to get somewhere ambitious if you don't start out with great ambitions. What I would say is: we got a start. That to me is a very significant thing. Here we were, a historic meeting to talk about climate change.

Christy Clark

#11. Caroline scrambled off his lap, gazing down at the Persian rug. "Is this thing Scotchgarded?

Cecilia London

#12. Loss is a strange thing. It comes without a warning. It rips your heart to shreds and lets you learn to live with the pieces. It never lets you heal, but eventually, the memories you carry will help you learn to live with the pain of knowing that you will never see your loved one again.

J.C. Reed

#13. Love is scary, but it's the greatest, scariest thing you'll ever experience. If he's that for you, then you know you love him.

Steph Nuss

#14. the thing no one wants to talk about is that the normal American woman is extremely weak when placed in closed quarters with a man she likes.

G.L. Lambert

#15. It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system.

William Sloane Coffin

#16. It was easy to forget that other people lived in a world where rules and laws and common sense could keep you safe. A world where, if you did the right thing you were allowed to get on with your life in whichever way you chose.

Tabitha McGowan

#17. You've got to let it go and say it was the best I could do at that time and place in my life. You hope that the thing you're doing next is a little bit better.

Todd McFarlane

#18. Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first.

S. N. Goenka

#19. The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built ... I put the sweat of my life into this thing.

Howard Hughes

#20. I've always wanted to do right in life. But the wanting and the doing aren't quite the same thing.

Mark Wahlberg

#21. Karyos's people adopted an ingenious, if somewhat perplexing attitude that life was a circle. Not like Disney's circle of life thing, which was really just a nice way to say, "death is normal, children, so suck it up.

Gene Doucette

#22. I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do.

Hans Zimmer

#23. The crazy thing is that practical solutions exist. We don't need to perpetuate these problems. I think our hardest job is to convey a sense of optimism, show how things can get better, and get people to invest in solutions.

Mark Powell

#24. Maybe doing the wrong thing for the right reasons is better than doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. At least it feels that way.

Kristen Chandler

#25. Who can ever forget George W. Bush, in the days and weeks after the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, exhorting people not to be afraid, to get out and do the right thing, the patriotic thing, the one thing that could get the economy moving forward again: start shopping.

Richard Florida

#26. There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

Bill Gates

#27. Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

George Gordon Byron

#28. The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it was used by George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.

S.I. Hayakawa

#29. The worst thing I could be accused of is that I'm a one-way dude, only out for myself. But the worst thing a woman can do is not to say anything. Especially when you're starting a relationship.

Matt Dillon

#30. All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Susan Sontag

#31. Hate isn't the most dangerous thing, he'd said. Indifference is.

Lauren Oliver

#32. The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it.

Bill Bryson

#33. The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.

Serj Tankian

#34. I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more ...

Dante Alighieri

#35. Cats don't think they're owned by anybody.
Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always.
That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.

Michael Korda

#36. John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

Brian Eno

#37. I don't mind being older. I'm proud of my age. I've achieved a lot. It's the same thing with Mick and the Stones. They should be revered and respected. Isn't it strange that now we're living longer we have so much less respect for old age? Perhaps it's a less valuable commodity?

Jerry Hall

#38. The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her spectacles lay on her apron'd knees ...

Charles Stuart Calverley

#39. We're focused on doing one thing incredibly well. If you look at other companies, all of these companies are doing a lot of different things but we're still, as we grow, doing exactly one thing.

Sheryl Sandberg

#40. There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#41. The beautiful thing is that you can change your self-image, just like you can change everything else in your life if it is not serving to enhance it.

Robin S. Sharma

#42. Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.

Gary Kemp

#43. I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.

Gregg Easterbrook

#44. I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Bob Dylan

#45. I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was 'Detroit Rock City.' I heard it in the school library, where I lived.

Brian Posehn

#46. He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.

John Green

#47. No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task.

Charles R. Swindoll

#48. If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.

Naveen Jain

#49. The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. What's the worst thing that could happen? If everything went wrong, maybe you'd get a pulse.

Dennis Miller

#50. A hundred things to do, but only one thing to be," he said, obstinately. "But perhaps I don't feel myself worthy of such a wealth of opportunity?

Doris Lessing

#51. The last thing that you need to fret about is my feeling emasculated, Kitten; but talk is cheap, so I'll be sure to show you later." ~Bones

Jeaniene Frost

#52. Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

Viktor E. Frankl

#53. Presents are the best way to show someone how much you care. It is like this tangible thing that you can point to and say, Hey man, I love you this many dollars-worth.

Michael Scott

#54. The two best interview subjects are children under 10 and people over 70 for the same reason: they say the first thing that comes to their mind. The children don't know what they're saying and the old folks don't care.

Art Linkletter

#55. In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

Panayiotis Zavos

#56. The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep

Margaret Mead

#57. The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.

Henri Matisse

#58. He was staring into my eyes, and I felt that shivery thing that happens when you look in someone's eyes and you get goose bumps because you're gaining access.

Bill Konigsberg

#59. Above all, film is a business ... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.

Mel Gibson

#60. The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.

Shaun White

#61. The name sounds almost too perfect. And as I said, you look perfect, too. The only thing left ... is to be perfect.

Jay Asher

#62. For most Americans, poetry plays no role in their everyday lives. But also for most Americans, contemporary painting or jazz or sculpture play no role either. I'm not saying poetry is singled out as a special thing to ignore.

Billy Collins

#63. If there was one thing in the world Ty was willing to give up everything for, it was sitting right there in front of him.

Abigail Roux

#64. When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.

Maeve Binchy

#65. Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

Albert Camus

#66. The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

Markus Zusak

#67. The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would for example get more satisfaction from climbing Snowdon, which I know I could, than from attempting Everest, which I couldn't.

Stirling Moss

#68. Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.

Nell Freudenberger

#69. I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in Italy every year, but I need to work.

Richard Rogers

#70. She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.

Erica Jong

#71. But the mall is a thing that should not be suffered. Except maybe for Cinnabon.

Kendare Blake

#72. There's a lot of people I'd love to work with at some point, but I think the song has to be the right thing. It has to be the right fit.

Jason Aldean

#73. It appears to me that no one has learned a thing; that Wall Street is still operating as if 2008 never happened.

Collin C. Peterson

#74. The thing is you cannot imagine what is going to happen next. If you're imagining it - it's from your imagination.

Art Hochberg

#75. Let's all try to be fearless, sometimes we wish for the most perfect of outcomes and we arrive at the most unforgettable. Life can be scary and leave us hiding, but when we come out of hiding, we may realize, that life was the one thing that we could always count on ...

Holly Hood

#76. A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.

Sally Schneider

#77. Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

Charles Dickens

#78. It is a fact of life that when you are small, people expect little things from you. But when you've done a great thing, people are amazed.

Ymatruz

#79. Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.

Edward Norton

#80. Uniconsciousess is a consciousness and awareness that everything, everyone, every beauty, every life, and every thought arises from the same thing. We are one. We are different expressions of one.

Debasish Mridha

#81. Is there a lot of stuff you don't understand? she said & I said pretty much the whole thing & she nodded & said that's what she thought, but it was nice to hear it anyways & we sat there on the porch swing, listening to the wind & growing up together.

Brian Andreas

#82. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as single and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet, on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#83. There is no such thing as a victimless crime, and people should be allowed to do as they please with their own bodies and with other consenting adults. If you believe otherwise, then you are an enemy of freedom.

Michel Templet

#84. Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Louis Nizer

#85. Well, what shall I do next? What is the next thing demanded of me by history?

Donald Barthelme

#86. Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

Rachel Johnson

#87. I thought the whole masturbation thing was really odd and really weird.

Lynndie England

#88. To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if I were a working stiff, I could never afford to do this. But I don't even think about money.

Stephen King

#89. If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

Mark Twain

#90. The worst possible thing ... was to lie dead in the water with any problem. Solve it, solve it quickly ... If you solved it wrong, it would come back and slap you in the face, and then you could solve it right.

Thomas Watson Jr.

#91. What you never want to do is have a story that doesn't track emotionally, because then you're going joke to joke and you're going to fatigue the audience. The only thing that's going to string them to the next joke is how successful the previous joke is.

Paul Feig

#92. For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and as doves with their young ones; but sin is a heavy affair, as another of the prophets says, sitting upon a talent of lead.

Gregory Of Nyssa

#93. The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

Alex Winter

#94. The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you can - but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members.

Lou Holtz

#95. My first struggle thought me that there is no such thing as luck, but the second made me believe you certainly need it sometimes.

M.F. Moonzajer

#96. Bjork, I'd love to do something with her. I'd love to do some sort of crazy orchestral choir thing with her.

Ellie Goulding

#97. I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#98. My favorite thing to do in a new city is find new fast food. I seek it out. I'll tweet and ask people what their favorite local place is, and if I get four or five with the same answer, then I'll check it out.

Kate Micucci

#99. I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.

Zoe Kazan

#100. I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

Nella Larsen