Things Quotes

What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five.

People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.

Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.

Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.

I've always felt that when you use too many products or try too many new things, you're just piling a lot of unnatural, unnecessary stress on your face. I try to keep it simple.

PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.

Men can bear all things but good days.

Things happen in a way that surprises. That's why I'm reluctant to predict. You cannot predict.

I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them.

I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.

Money buys you nice things but it doesn't make you happy.

Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele.

We're actually making stuff in America now. We're exporting stuff. We're inventing things.

We're all lost souls here. It's a good thing we've got each other.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But because I'm such a homebody, it's important to be surrounded by things I love.

Too many good things all seem the same after a while.

I think the best things happen when you just let go and see what comes in. I find that that's always the most satisfying.

My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water.

My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.

Sometimes the worst thing you can do, personally, is the best thing you can do, professionally.

Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.

Fame does different things to different people. For some people it makes them a better person.

Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it.

It's a very nice thing to have a baby.

One of the cool things I remember is the Swiss people brought their big cowbells.

Familiar things are a comfort to us all.

Leadership is not always about getting things done 'right.' Leadership is about getting things done through other people.

Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.

It's ok for people to feel bad about the wrong things they've done.

Reruns are my favorite things on TV.

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.

The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.

I think if you've never been pregnant, you can over play pregnant and you can do a lot of different things with pregnant.

My favorite thing about L.A. is the sunny breezes that mimic the mindset of the energy in the people.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

Athletes and actors do really crazy things and we do them under weird circumstances because we love what we do and because we take things in an extreme manner.

The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on.

When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.

One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful things about acting.

Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.

For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened

A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.

When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.

She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.

do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.

What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.

That is Obama's signature move: Invent people who are saying ridiculous things and then encourage the audience to laugh at these made-up buffoons.