Top 100 Things I Quotes
#1. There's just so many things I wanna do. At the end of the day, I wanna be happy.
Jessica Lowndes
#2. People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that actually wasn't the case. Even though they don't necessarily agree with some of the things I do, they love me as their daughter. That's always been their perspective.
Katy Perry
#3. She said she wanted to see beautiful things. I took her to where i planted my seeds.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#4. If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I'd need: food, shelter, and a grip.
George C. Scott
#5. It was all the things I wanted my music to be, but yet it wasn't grand and it wasn't obtuse - it wasn't overshooting, it wasn't undershooting, it was precise. The lyrics and the way that I was able to extract and excavate emotion within me.
Justin Vernon
#6. I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.
Patti Smith
#7. The things I write about are the things that I am passionate about, interested in, and fighting for in my life.
Kristin Armstrong
#8. I never consciously choose what I'm going to work on next; I don't have an agenda beyond that attraction. Fortunately, my wonderful agent, Christopher Schelling, knows how I think and points me toward things I might like, which is how I started writing Y.A.
Kathe Koja
#9. It's like I'm living inside a mirror. I see things, I do things, but they are just surfaces and nothing more.
Elizabeth Scott
#10. One of the things I do as a food writer is to take a classic recipe made with meat, look at it a whole lot, and tinker with it according to my taste.
Crescent Dragonwagon
#11. Maybe they should name more drugs cute things. I don't do meth, but maybe if they called meth 'Stefanie' I would!
Chelsea Handler
#12. One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set my own goals.
Benjamin Stone
#13. I know that many of the things I have said from the Scriptures have offended, and I have sometimes been tempted to tone down the message. But, God helping me, I never will! I would become a false prophet. I would also betray my Lord.
Billy Graham
#14. I'm not a vegetarian, and I like filet minion which is sort of a guilty pleasure because I have vegetarian leanings. I eat that once in a while, but generally speaking I like to eat vegetarian things. I really like pasta. I really like bread with olive oil and garlic and I like salads.
Jesse Michaels
#15. One of the things I love about cinema is the range.
Mike Figgis
#16. When I stopped drinking ... there were so many things I had to face that I didn't even realize were part of my makeup before. When you do that and have any changes that severe, you lose a lot of things, both good and bad.
Jason Isbell
#17. It freaks me out to stare at myself, especially my eyes, and know all those things I've been thinking inside
Carolyn Mackler
#18. I watch people's behavior and notice things. I think that's why I became a comedian. I notice how stupid the things we do are.
Ellen DeGeneres
#19. I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.
Mitch Albom
#20. I left a church of kind, generous people because I couldn't pretend to believe things I didn't believe anymore, because I knew that no matter how hard I tried, I could never be the stick-figured woman in the Vote Yes On One sign standing guard in front of the doors. I didn't want to be.
Rachel Held Evans
#21. I have come to realize that God is sovereign, and there are things I just don't understand.
Benny Hinn
#22. Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?
Lauren Bush
#23. I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.
Ayn Rand
#24. God will give us the strength to be able to handle things. I mean, you can try to do it on your own, and sometimes you can pull off some stuff, but in the long run, it's much easier with Him by our side.
Bethany Hamilton
#25. I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
Karin Slaughter
#26. One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.
Russell Banks
#27. It's unbelievable how many things I've learned from Merlin Olsen.
Jack Youngblood
#28. Lyrically I write based on my past experiences or things I wish to experience. Pain inspires me as does joy.
Adam Anderson
#29. Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind
Willie Nelson
#30. I like smoking at home. I like it to be one of the last things I do that day. I don't wake and bake at all; I couldn't do that. If I'm waking and baking, then I'm staying inside my place the rest of the day. I can't start my day off high.
Hannibal Buress
#31. If I don't explain or tell some of my experiences, I feel like I'm doing guys a disservice because I know as a younger player, there's things I could benefit from the experience of an older guy.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
#32. But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More and more, though, I was finding myself wanting to find out what happened in the end..
Sarah Dessen
#33. I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.
Ba Jin
#34. I want to have conversations about real things with people who have experienced real things. I'm tired of talking about movies and gossiping about friends. Life is crunchy and complicated and all the more delicious.
Amy Poehler
#35. It feels strange to me to be living in a box, hiding from the steadying influence of the moon; wearing the hide of a cow, which is supposed to be dyed to match God-knows-what, on my feet; making promises over the telephone about things I will do at a precise hour next year.
Barbara Kingsolver
#36. It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds of things that are unplanned or are unexpected that maybe don't work, and you have to trust the director to see that and work around those things. I find it really scary.
Sarah Polley
#37. One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.
Laura Mvula
#38. One of the things I tried to do is to kind of talk my actors through the scene, but at the same time let them know how I plan to shoot the film and just give them an insight into the way I'm thinking, so that when they're acting out their scene, they can kind of see it in their minds' eyes.
James Wan
#39. People call me all sorts of things. I don't even care what they call me.
James Frey
#40. One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.
Raf Simons
#41. Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
Tom Petty
#42. I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.
Sara Paretsky
#43. I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.
Richard Petty
#44. I heard a lot of those things. I heard that I was greedy; that I didn't care about winning; heard the questioning of my loyalty. And I'm thinking: 'Of course I want to win. I've been winning my entire life.'
James Harden
#45. I see you in every flower in the park, every color in a rainbow and in every scent that reminds me of the things I love. Without knowing how, or even why it happened, I can't imagine a world where you don't exist.
Denise Mathew
#46. I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But because I'm such a homebody, it's important to be surrounded by things I love.
Amy Sedaris
#47. I've been chasing my music dream for a very long time and the acting dream just came up. But there are musical things I want to show the world, so that's my next step.
Roshon Fegan
#48. I made a list of things I wanted to do with my life, but it ended up mostly being a list of books I wanted to write
Ellie Rose McKee
#49. I think I have a tendency to overwork things. I have a hard time finding that sweet spot that most actors seem to be able to hit where they're doing the exact right amount of work, not overthinking, not underdoing it. I seem to either overdo it or underdo it.
Paul Giamatti
#50. The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.
Michael J. Fox
#51. Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.
Jane Asher
#52. I've always found that the best things I've ever written, or the things I like the most that I've written, are things where it's a pure idea, and you just follow it and put it down and see if it works.
Drew Magary
#53. I eat organic and cook my food whenever possible, and I live by the 80/20 rule. Eighty percent of the time I'm Stash all the way, 20 percent I enjoy the things I want.
Laura Prepon
#54. Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.
Alma Guillermoprieto
#55. I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for granted.
Sayed Badreya
#56. High on the list of things I've been meaning to do since I moved to New York in 2004 is going up to a Columbia University football game.
Willie Geist
#57. I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got it. Its all the things I think are despicable: patronage, deferring to the monarchy and the name of the British Empire, which is a monument of exploitation and conquest.
Ken Loach
#58. When I look into someone's eyes, into their soul, their innermost being, they can see mine in return - the things I had done, the things I was willing to do, the things I was capable of doing.
Jim Butcher
#59. There are three things I look for in a person. And you're the only person I've met in the world that has all of them.
Katie Kacvinsky
#60. It struck me at some point that the things I wanted to say had to be wordless. I had to renounce words in order to go deep into the practice of making materials and textures that would express what I'm trying to say more accurately.
Arca
#62. Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.
Ogden Nash
#63. So many actors get caught up in their technique, and to be honest, I see it really getting in the way. I see them forcing things. I definitely do my best work when I'm free of that. But I think as an actor, I work really hard in preparing the roles.
Gerard Butler
#64. When I get in the car I love my wife and kids more than anything, but I'm not thinking about that side of things. I'm thinking about the car, I'm thinking about the race and I'm thinking about how to make the car faster.
Scott Dixon
#65. Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I'm very suspicious. It doesn't make sense to me that you'd have the same solution to every issue.
Louis C.K.
#66. I put complains aside and replace each of them with trials and to my surprise, some things I see as difficult were not so before! I conclude that "Success resides behind the curtains of complains; tear those pieces of complains away and you will see the stage of your dreams clearly"!
Israelmore Ayivor
#67. One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like.
Martin Filler
#68. I made a lot of mistakes, a lot of things I'm not proud of. But it's only for other people to learn from.
Allen Iverson
#69. I wanted to teach my daughter the same things I had to unlearn after years spent as a corporate lawyer: that soul is more important than money, that love means more than material things. (James Griffioen)
Heather B. Armstrong
#70. None of the things I have done would have been accomplished without a true team effort.
Nick Lampson
#71. I give you my name, my earthly possessions, and my eternal love. But of all the things I have, the thing I want most to give you are my eyes, these eyes that see how magnificently beautiful you are.
Michelle Marcos
#72. Naturally, I've always felt more like a writer myself, and I've always written. I have people who are writers who've been promoting that side of me. I also draw, too. Those things I feel most comfortable in.
Craig Bierko
#73. I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!
Robert Browning
#74. I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#75. My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I not going to work for anyone? I just don't want people telling me what to do.
Brittany Howard
#76. People criticize you for trying new things. I think, 'I'm new! I'm 22!' I don't know exactly what my sound is or what I want my album to sound like, so I'm not releasing it yet. While I'm experimenting, I'll let you in on the journey, and you can hear it for free.
Iggy Azalea
#77. I like to have success experiences rather than failure experiences. So I'm more likely to compete in things I'm good at, and more likely to spend time on the things I expect to succeed at.
Park Dietz
#79. What a coincidence! The very things I'm writing are the very things no one wants to read.
Marty Rubin
#80. If I keep going outside, I get distracted - and all these lunches and things I get invited to, I just don't care. I just want to make the work. New York is very distracting.
Kesh
#81. One of the hardest things I've encountered whilst working on 'Pippin' is the consistent irony, as a reflection from the core material of the show, within my own life.
Matthew James Thomas
#82. I like to buy things I can understand. I do a lot of research on things.
Warren Buffett
#83. I can't write things. I'm embarrassed all the time about that, particularly if people don't know that about me.
Dannel Malloy
#84. I'm really grateful that my baby daddy is incredibly involved. But there's certain things I wish he could just telepathically know.
Kathryn Hahn
#85. Religion makes kind people say unkind things: "I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children." They wouldn't do that if God didn't tell them to do so.
Christopher Hitchens
#86. In many ways, cartooning is my therapy. I've always said they're like my diaries. It's thoughts and feelings and things I've seen on any particular day.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#87. Jim, I studied engineering in college. When I see things, I see them.
Ayn Rand
#88. I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies.
Clive Barker
#89. One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.
John Barth
#90. The things I've seen ... no, the things I've done." He shuddered slightly as memories flashed into his mind. "I was as innocent. I thought I understood the world, but I was little more than a child.
Conn Iggulden
#91. I started out playing big bands shows and different things. I was with several different small bands and groups, doing comedy and singing, emceeing, and I got a break with a very big star of the late fifties whose name was Tommy Sands ...
Hal Blaine
#92. She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around anyone; I couldn't even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I've always been. Her hand, it fit mine.
Jodi Picoult
#93. It's not like I tease people with the things I'm doing," the Kid continues. He deepens his voice. "Coming soon, I may or may not go outside. What will I choose? Find out ... in another month.
T.J. Klune
#95. I was vested emotionally in 'Battlestar.' I really loved the thematic things. I don't feel it really got its shot, and I can't blame anyone else; I was at the center of that.
Glen A. Larson
#96. Two things I ain't ever seen, a U.F.O. and a hoe that won't go.
Project Pat
#97. Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#98. I did things I should not have done. But people make mistakes, especially at my age, when you feel you are so smart, but in fact you are an asshole.
Martina Hingis
#99. The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
Oded Fehr
#100. In the lonely hours, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about eternal things. I have contemplated the comforting doctrines of eternal life.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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