Things Quotes

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Things ain't what they used to be and never were.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

People don't yell nasty things at actors - they let them continue.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

This was great fun and a nice paycheck and then, as these things happen, the show was canceled.

All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that are a little bit off the edge.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.