Things Quotes

I am a maker of useful things.

I was forced to make the decision between art and music which are the only two things I liked as opposed to being able to do them both because that's what I was interested in.

To the extent that we can shine a light on the bad things being done, that's going to have a positive impact.

I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it; I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral, Seeing that long standing increases all things regardless of quality.

We should confess His hand in all things. Ingratitude is one of our great sins.

Satan knows that youth is the springtime of life when all things are new and young people are most vulnerable.

I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

Well of all things in the world, I don't suppose anything can be so dreadful as a public wedding--my stars!--I should never be able to support it!

I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.

If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning.

In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.

I've dated many different types. I was all over the map. For me, it was learning about being attracted to the right things in a person, not the wrong things.

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.

I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.

It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.

I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.

The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.

In my career, I've had people talking about different things many times, but then not get nominated.

I went into the world, threw myself into the world, and great things came out of it.

Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don't have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from.

I hate money. It is boring and it is arithmetic. The two things I hate the most.

The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.

Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon," said Colin. "It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things.

Things happen to people by accident.

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch of a little world? command thyself.

There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.

This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.

I like to discover new things and I'm always testing new apps.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.

Our criminal institutions are full of creeps like you who do wrong things, and many of them were driven to these crimes by the horrible force called music.

True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living.

Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

God always does His new things in the same old way.

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

I'm obsessed with my 20s. I buy things that I wanted in my 20s. It's weird; it's a weird thing that I didn't grow out of.

I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.