Thing Quotes

I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Hollywood is just like high school. The popular people only like the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice - or they're nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

To act well isn't an easy thing.

I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.