Thing Quotes

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what's happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that's a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.

There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands; people are editing it, they're cutting it, marketing it. And it's... part your career sort of rides on that. But when you're actually filming it's a team thing and it really feels good there for me.

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

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.

It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.