Things Quotes
I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in
Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.
If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
Brain damage and stupidity are very different things, but can have similar effects on the wearer.
I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that's what I would love to do.
Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them.
Guys who might not be superstars but because of their hustle, because of the little things they do, these are the guys who can really mean the difference between winning and losing.
It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating things himself.
It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.
If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.
Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.
Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.
Not for the mighty world. O Lord, tonight, Nations and kingdoms in their fearful might--Let me be glad the kettle gently sings, Let me be grateful for little things.
The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.
But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of.
There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and gotten very rich.
The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them.
One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.
...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and second, add some new piece of knowledge to the world each day.
Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.
Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world.
Tomorrow, the busiest day of the week. I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.
The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.
Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.
Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.
One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.
I try to do a lot of yoga and meditation. I think now it's creating things in times of waiting.
This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.
One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that.
It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.
I've got the opportunity of a lifetime. Some great things are happening because of momentum and I'm just trying to seize the moment.
If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around.
There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.
The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.
I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.
One of my favorite things to do is to craft and to write songs and tell stories, and another thing is to really just flip out basically, and release kind of my unruly energies.
She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.