Top 100 Things In Quotes
#1. What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?
Ray Bradbury
#2. Satan is never better pleased, than when he sees Christians puzzled and perplexed about those things in religion, which are of no great consequence or importance.
Thomas Brooks
#3. My two sons are the most important things in the world to my wife and I - they are what I build my world around.
Rob Lowe
#4. This is heartbreaking and consuming and addictive. It's terrifying and peaceful, crazy and serene. It's a million things in one brief moment and it's something I don't understand and never want to live without.
Katie McGarry
#5. But, like most things in life, unless you really work at it, anger's a hard thing to hold on to.
Sarah Alderson
#6. Women think about things in a holistic way that's not just so individual. And I'm saying the thing is, is if we had somebody looking after our country that thought about things as a whole, I just feel like it just would be different.
Pharrell Williams
#7. I deal with certain things in my work because of who I am. I make work in order to make people think.
Steve McQueen
#8. I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's what I wanted to do and could do with children and with all the other things in my life.
Grace Paley
#9. It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it is a museum about the world as seen from Britain rather than a history focused on these islands.
Neil MacGregor
#10. Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.
Charles Dickens
#11. If you have a lot of money, you know that you can make almost anything happen, but with a smaller budget you don't have a lot of time or too many resources, so you have to conceive things in a very simple manner and make them happen fast.
Rob Zombie
#12. Above all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times ... As a general rule, try to find new combinations of words (not for the sake of their novelty, but because every person sees things in an individual way and must find his own words for them).
Vladimir Nabokov
#13. I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It's the little things in life that make me happy.
Faith Hill
#14. Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.
William Beebe
#15. Things in Arizona don't just die; they bake and fry in the heat until there is nothing left.
Jeffry R. Halverson
#16. That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things in order to tell a story and we thought the poets could learn from fiction writers something about developing a character over time who wasn't just you and also creating a narrative structure.
Edward Hirsch
#17. For me, the movie's always evolving as I'm doing it. I throw things in as we shoot, and I take things out as we go. I want to create a whole life and then select the pieces that best sort of describe it later, you know? So there's a lot of wastage when I make a film.
Andrew Dominik
#18. The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
Anita Loos
#19. All we demand are the same rights as men, and slightly more stalls per restroom. And tampon machines. And those little things in the stalls so we can put our used tampons in them. And, okay, just go ahead and make the bathrooms out of tampons.
Susan B. Anthony
#20. Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.
Barbara Sher
#21. At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.
Curtis Jackson
#22. We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.
Mitch Albom
#23. I see things in the middle of the night. I draw them on paper and I don't even think about it. I'm like a machine in a way - just made of some electronic stuff. Vaguely digital.
Karl Lagerfeld
#24. Things in the margins, including humans who wander there, are often on the brink of becoming someone else, or something else, whose memory may not include the significance of old markers.
Barbara Hurd
#25. The best things in life must come by effort from within, not by gifts from the outside.
Fred Pierce Corson
#26. Few things in life hurt as much as the awareness that one has betrayed the ideas of one's youth.
Jose Saramago
#27. There are things in this book, as in life, that might upset you. There is death and pain in here, tears and discomfort, violence of all kinds, cruelty, even abuse. There is kindness, too, I hope, sometimes. Even a handful of happy endings. (Few
Neil Gaiman
#28. According to Aristotle, envy is pain for the presence of good things in others, whereas emulation is pain for their absence in us. This is a subtle but critical difference. Unlike envy, which is self-defeating, emulation is a good thing because it makes us take steps towards securing good things.
Neel Burton
#29. All things in common nature should produce
Without sweat or endeavour. Treason, felony,
Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine,
Would I not have; but nature should bring forth,
Of it own kind, all foison, all abundance,
To feed my innocent people.
William Shakespeare
#30. He'd forgotten about the beautiful things in life. Soft things. Gentle things. Sights and sounds. Tastes and touches. She was all of them wrapped up in one sweet package.
Sarah Castille
#31. The strangest things in life were precious. Someone to tell you when you were wrong was one of them. "I
Sonali Dev
#32. The reader is always looking for two things in the novel: themselves and transcendence.
Walter Mosley
#33. Something she'd gotten from Burton and the Corps, that you didn't do things in the clothes you sat around in. You got yourself squared away, then your intent did too.
William Gibson
#34. If you are doing things in order to be happy ...
you're doing them in the wrong order.
Michael Neill
#35. From 1994 to 1997, I did nothing. I slept and slept and slept. If I was awake, I had to deal with things, I had to do things. In order to avoid that, I would just stay in bed.
Jonathan Knight
#36. She was the living, breathing proof that the hard things in life didn't have to defeat you - or even define you.
Susan Wiggs
#37. That's how I make work. Along the way, I take notes, I read about history and popular culture. Sometimes I act out things in the studio. I go back to my mother's hair salon so I can hear three voices going all at once. I pull inspiration from everything.
Mark Bradford
#38. Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them.
Peter Cook
#39. As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.
Benny Goodman
#40. There are things in life that happen that change who we are, things that are hard to come back from, and in the end we never really are the same.
Jessica Sorensen
#41. Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.
Seth Lloyd
#42. Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
J.C. Ryle
#43. I can never say that I will never return to musical theatre. There may be a part in the future that I really want to do. I love plays as well. I am very open to ideas. I hope to do many things in the future.
Sarah Brightman
#44. I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.
Jim Broadbent
#45. I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my life, but they're twirling around me at the time.
Ben Gibbard
#46. Because your human joy fascinates me - the way you experience things, in your life span, so wildly and deeply and all at once, is ... entrancing. I'm drawn to it, even when I know I shouldn't be, even when I try not to be.
Sarah J. Maas
#47. One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.
Jerome K. Jerome
#50. They'd done plenty of wild things in their time together, but Reeve's favorite and Sutton's too was when he asked her to beg for it. She always did, and he always made sure she was rewarded.
Lauren Blakely
#51. It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.
Tim Burton
#52. It's now taken for granted that women are in bands and you can say feminist things in your songs. But back in the early '90s, there was a lot of violence at Bikini Kill shows that people don't realize happened.
Kathleen Hanna
#53. To me it's a mystery that you can show the horrific things in the movies, but not some sexual stuff which everyone does.
Seth Rogen
#54. Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [ ... ], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?
Elizabeth Bishop
#55. The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television.
David Bowie
#56. You don't get to see your family much. In the movie business, directors often go out of town for long periods of time, and even if you're in town, you're working 14-15 hour days. People tend to not balance out the important things in their lives with their career.
Jon Favreau
#57. I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
Tanya Fischer
#58. When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.
Charles Stanley
#59. I guess we can all look back and see things in our lives that we could or should have done differently - and better - and
Duff McKagan
#60. There's a fashion for a macho style of filmmaking. How long can your longest take be? And shooting things in one shot. For me, if you can sort of disappear and make people feel that they are there, that involves massive amounts of work.
Lenny Abrahamson
#61. I want to explore humanity and human kind. I think that what's common for all of the things that I've done and all the things that I want to do is that they are all connected to some deeper things in our souls.
Noomi Rapace
#62. I love that red wine is good for you. Isn't that cool? I want to hear more of this. I want to hear more things in life like, Red wine, in conjunction with a lap dance, while watching NFL football, is the best cardiovascular workout you can have.
Dom Irrera
#63. She speaks much of her father; says she hears
There's tricks i' the world; and hems, and beats her heart;
Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt,
That carry but half sense.
(Ophelia)
William Shakespeare
#64. I see violence in myself; I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide.
Henry Rollins
#65. You have to have other things in your life apart from swimming to focus on. It's not going to be just swimming in my life.
Jazmin Carlin
#66. You can never have enough sharp things in this world
J.W. Webb
#67. I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem.
Roxane Gay
#68. I want to have an assistant someday who will make freaky teens cool T-shirts so that they can do good things in style. I want to be Donna. So frickin' much.
Matthew Quick
#69. That's the kind of trouble you get when diverse groups of people actually cross paths with one another. That's why many of the worst things in the world happen in and around Starbucks bathrooms.
Tina Fey
#70. No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you write. Don't approximate. Don't settle for the easiest combination of words. Go searching instead for those that explain exactly what you think. What you feel.
Kate Morton
#71. It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country-and especially the rights of trade unionists-if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.
Michael Foot
#72. How could anyone get anything important done if they didn't plan to get anything important done? You couldn't leave the important things in life to accident.
Anonymous
#73. The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a question of getting the true perspective, of seeing things in proportion.
Agatha Christie
#74. People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.
Angel Olsen
#75. Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
Thomas Merton
#76. I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.
Clyde Tombaugh
#77. I have a lot of great friends in football. The game was great to me. And I've been able to do other things in television and enjoy that, meeting those people.
Bill Parcells
#78. One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.
E.W. Howe
#80. Katie had married Johnny because she liked the way he sang and danced and dressed. Womanlike, she set about changing all those things in him after marriage.
Betty Smith
#81. Those are the things in the water that keep the moon in orbit. I've never quite understood just how they work. You mostly can't see the moon during the day, so they can't be very efficient.
Matthew Goldman
#82. We can't go in there at night - there's all sorts of things in there - werewolves, I heard.
J.K. Rowling
#83. One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.
Patrick DeWitt
#84. Things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.
Vernon Lee
#85. And love can come to everyone, the best things in life are free.
Lew Brown
#86. There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
Damian Lewis
#87. I do admit there are things in the universe I don't understand. But my response to that is not to make up silly stories ... or to believe intellectually embarrassing myths from the Bronze Age, but you believe whatever you want.
Bill Maher
#88. What we do at the end of every season - which is why it's probably not the greatest idea to talk about things in the visitor's locker room after the final game - we sit down and have real serious conversations with all of the senior people.
Jeffrey Lurie
#89. There are plenty of things in vaults that didn't sell in its time. So much stuff. But slowly these companies start to get a hint that these things have some value.
Devendra Banhart
#90. The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.
Ethel Wilson
#91. I think that when you're playing someone who does really questionable or even really terrible things in a movie, it's important to show where that person is coming from. They're doing it from a necessary impulse. There is a struggle that's going on within them as a human.
Dane DeHaan
#92. There are many bad things in this world of ours, but the use of the word 'monetize' has to rank high among them. Also, 'incentivize.' Actually, all the '-ize' words, like 'contextualize' and 'utilize' and 'prioritize.' And - this is almost too horrible to type - 'juniorize.'
Susan Orlean
#93. Who wants a friend who talks about you behind your back? How do I know I can trust you to say good things in my absence when I've seen you cut up a "friend" behind his or her back, only to smile and act endearing when the person unexpectedly appears?
Alan E. Nelson
#94. She was accustomed in London to associate only with first-rate people who liked first-rate things, and she knew that there were very, very few first-rate things in the world, and that those were mostly French.
Aldous Huxley
#95. Some things in life are just to complicated to explain in any language.'
Olga was absolutely right, Tsukuru thought as he sipped his wine. Not just to explain to others, but to explain to yourself. Force yourself to try to explain it, and you create lies.
Haruki Murakami
#96. We hiked the Matterhorn and I stopped every minute to take pictures until he fumed: "Do you think all this beauty and grandeur can fit in a little square of film? Record things in your heart. It's more important than trying to show people what you're experiencing." My
Paulo Coelho
#97. Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.
Guy Debord
#98. Being mom is one of my favorite things. It makes my day watching my kids grow and accomplish things in their lives.
Amanda Penland
#99. I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify those things in the past that are useful and those things that are not; and they ought to give nourishment.
Toni Morrison
#100. There are things in life you cannot change, no matter how much you want to.
Tammy L. Gray
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