Things Quotes

Acting is different all the time. When you're on set, different films, or just even in between, it's never the same. I think that's one of the things I love about it.

(I) try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.

I feel better about my life every day. My kids get older. My life is very rich and full of wonderful things. I've been very lucky, careerwise.

I don't want to jump off the roof or jump for joy depending on my movie reviews, or whether it makes money. I think the larger, more meaningful things are family and the people you love.

I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.

The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that's about the time I started writing decent work.

When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'

Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

Guilt's a terrible thing.

I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections.' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

When little things are so important, it's because there aren't any big ones.

I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

Small things affects small minds.

England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

The reason we need to have a gold and silver based currency is to bring discipline to the financial system so the government can't go out and do all sorts of bad things.

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.

The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake.

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

I always told my team two things: Never expect them to give you anything and always expect them to make the next shot.

A weird thing about Gossip that I've always said: "If I weren't in this band, I would never listen to it." But I would go see it. It's a band you would go see that you don't necessarily listen to.

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

One of my favorite things as a teenage girl was getting dressed up to go to shows.

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your activism, but never should it be allowed to paralyze you.

The BBC did a survey of the top 50 things to do before we die. Not while we're still alive, before we die.

One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

There are millions of people who can get things done. There are very, very few people who will change the pattern in the whole field.

All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany.

I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.

Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation.

I mean, we just started, it's a new thing. We're doing this for fun and we're going to see where it goes.

Bush the younger has two things going for him that his father never had. One: an easy charm with regular people and two: the power to make them disappear without a trial.

In fact, because people are religious, they think they can do bad things.

There are two things that you have to lie to get through. One is politics, and the other is marriage.

We spend a lot of time playing defence against bad things. So, in the US, one of the focusses has been this huge Keystone Pipeline project, another has been the coal ports on the Pacific Ocean.

I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.

When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.

You can count on time for two things. One is that it will pass. The other is that it will never shut up.

One of my favorite things about basketball is that you can't break it down into some sort of science that makes total sense.

Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken...a useless thing. Then make an offer.