Thing Quotes

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.

I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.

I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.

There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it's really really hard to predict those. I don't believe anyone can.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we removed your kidney. You're gonna be fine.' 'Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies.'

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

The most important thing in the world is family and love.