Thing Quotes

You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

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. It's like running, it's exertion.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.