Things Quotes

You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues of the day. And you have to continue to make good, relevant records.

An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.

I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.

I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.

I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible things that happen every day in the world. Which I have no interest in doing.

If you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. You're not really honoring the life.

What I enjoy about my work is that it's all things that I wanted to see as an audience member so there's part of me that understands what an audience wants to see in that respect.

There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.

It's almost scary how good things are right now. I've been engaged now for about a year and it's the first time anything like that has happened to me.

You get most things in life not by taking, but by giving.

Having been a lobbyist myself you can't overstate how easy it is to get things done your way. It's a complicated policy and many lobbyists are trying to wreck amendments as we speak.

There are only two things a manager needs to know: When to change pitchers and how to get along with your players.

Things happen for a reason. We'll see where life takes me from here.

I'm not promoting myself as the next great American driver, as some people are describing me. If that's what people want to call me, fine. But I've got more important things to focus on.

The good thing about being pregnant is that I don't have to worry about sucking it in or dieting!

I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.

It's been one of the greatest challenges that ever came along in my life; it was one of the more difficult things to do.

One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.

It is often little things that are hardest to stand.

Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.

A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

I don't think it's completely better. I still have to do annoying things sometimes and explain things that I don't feel I have to [about LGBT].

Being an umpire wasn't such a tough job. You really have to understand only two things and that's maintaing discipline and knowing the rule book.

I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.

I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.

The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.

The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

When we invest in the things that matter most to us, that are within God's unique design for each of us, I believe we will achieve a sense of balance in our lives.

I don't really dig for answers from the producers and writers that much. I let things happen the way they're going to happen.

I never get nervous. Baseball consists of two things: hitting and pitching, and we've got both.

We live in an in-between universe where things change all right...but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of nature.

In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near, to what they did at a distance.

I have sort of a love/hate relationship with LA. I wouldn't say that I love living there, but it's the place where I do the things I love.

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.

There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.

On grass, it can be the small things that decide a match.

Sometimes the pain outweighs the good things.

maturity ... is letting things happen.

The internet is just a scary place. It's better to just go to the doctor. Don't let Google get inside your head. It will do bad things to you.

When people start talking, things happen.

Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand.

I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.

You're encouraged to do the same kind of movies. But I would like to keep doing different things.

I liked it when there was a certain amount of people who did not like what I was doing. If anything, I thought that was a positive thing.