Things Quotes

Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.

Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs

There are many things in life that become different if you take a long look at them.

I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea of writing it down and then submitting it professionally was obviously absurd.

I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again.

Life and work are the most wonderful things a man can have.

And well historically it's never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters.

Enthusiasm is the DNA of making things happen.

You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.

People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.

Love meant something to her, she dreamt of it, thought of it, wrote of it. It was the one thing in life that had eluded her completely.

Now it seems like people want to do damage to young celebrities. They want to find them doing bad things. They encourage them.

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

Some of my work is very instinctive, some of my favourite things I've ever done are just two minute sketches, nothing is better when you get it like that so quick, then other work takes months.

Probably some of the best things that have ever happened to you in life, happened because you said yes to something. Otherwise things just sort of stay the same.

Keeping stationary drains your brain, but moving around shows you new things, new inspiration, and keeps the blood moving.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW.

I'd have a longer attention span if there weren't so many shiny things.

Dating means doing a lot of fun things you will never do again if you get married. The fun stops with marriage because you're trying to save money for when you split up your property.

You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently.

Every day things change, but basically they stay the same.

The funny thing is that I had never actually watched TV.

Its always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.

Only recently I’ve learned, it’s an obvious thing, but it just took me a while to realize

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

Football's the biggest game in the world. America's the greatest sporting nation there is. To play some part in putting those two things together: why wouldn't I be excited about that?

There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader.

A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance.

If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.

If you go in a confirmation process, you're going to be asked about the embarrassing or stupid things you said. You should have a view.

People will do odd things if you give them money.

I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

There are three things about Barack that really stand out for me: strength, moral authority, and wisdom. ... He has pressed the reset button on the moral authority of the entire free world.

The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.'

For me the most important thing is to continue to work with the best people that I can find, and that will have me.

I love creating new things. It's kind of my job, it's what I do, and I really have fun with it.

You will never have enough time to do everything you need to do, so what you need is a crystal clear understanding of the important things you have to do.

If you wanna find out 101 things to do with plums, heh, read your in-flight magazine.