Thing Quotes

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.

God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

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.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.