Thing Quotes

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.

I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

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.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.