Thing Quotes

I don't know, monogamy is a weird thing for me.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'

The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, they're doing their own challenges. It's back to cooking. And it's real cooking.

I am prepared to discuss the things that I believe we need to do not just to raise the debt limit. Raising the debt limit is the easiest thing. That's one vote away. The hard thing is to show the world we are serious about putting our spending in order so we can show people we'll able to pay our bills down the road.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.