Things Quotes

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate, the state of things, people want escapism.

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

I'm not as hard on myself anymore. I'm comfortable exactly where I am, though it took me until I was 34 years old! I still have things I'm really insecure about, but I've changed by loving me - C-section scars, stretch marks, and all.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

To make films like 'X-Men' work commercially - and also have some class - is one of the hardest things there is to do. I want to be seen to be able to cross lots of genres and still be 'fair dinkum,' as we say in Australia, which means genuine and true and, well, unique.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile.