Things Quotes

Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined.

The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things.

A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage

I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply.

It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands a cor­responding development of morality.

There is a lurking fear that some things are not “meant" to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball.

That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.

I have to trust that there is a force greater than me that also knows and sees this, and breathes with it and knows that it's part of a grander plan, and all the good things people do matter.

Love is the one thing in life that makes everything worthwhile.

Best thing wrong with Jack Fisher is nothing.

I don't think she doesn't believe she can die. I think, just like you always did, she believes there are things worth dying for.

Nothing is permanent," Magnus said. "I know this from experience. But you can get new things. You can meet new people. You can go on.

He gave us eyes to see them, And lips that we might tell How great is God Almighty, Who has made all things well.

The more I listened and became obsessed with singers, I feel like the more I realized that I had my own little thing that I could do.

Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense.

American audiences love period pieces. America doesn't have a lot of old things. It's a new country so I think we're a little bit fascinated by that.

There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.

There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.

Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

I hate the man who eats without knowing what he’s eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.

Thanksgiving is a time of quiet reflection; an annual reminder that God has, again, been ever so faithful. The solid and simple things of life are brought into clear focus.

If you want to be a person with a large vision, you must cultivate the habit of doing the little things well.

Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful.

One thing can make many other things happen.

It's easier to do horrible things to people if you don't really see them as people.

Almost every scene, I re-think as Im about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time Im changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things.

I refrain from lots of things I love, like cheese and carbs. I eat plenty of greens every day, my favorite being watercress.

That's one of the fun things...That's your excuse for dressing up. You can get picked on and go, 'Oh well I'm in a band'.

I've eaten weird things through the course of my life. I've eaten wild game, I've eaten possum - possum's no good.

I've got to live my life. Bad things happen. I can't be sitting here worrying about it.

Things that matter in this life can not be bought. Friends, truth, and a passion for life.

I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them.

When I'm traveling on tour, one of my favorite things to do is to throw a baseball cap on and go to a Target. The company has always been good to me. They've got such a great creative team.

The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed.

I'm an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that's the way it is, and I've never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy.

That most risky and volatile of all things a self-pitying majority.

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

Defense can't guard two things in a row.

Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen.

I think that's the great thing, ya' know, that women can do anything that they want now.

I'd heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn't know they were hateful toward white folks too.

I want to give people easy things to wear.

In Los Angeles, you feel like everything revolves around the movies. In Paris, you still have other things to do.

In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.