Things Quotes

Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.

I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.

There's me and then there's you, and you aren't ever going to be as good as me, Sweet Thing." Ranger

Good thing he's dead," Lula said, "or that would have hurt like the devil.

The stupid things you say in the rain, that can't ever be washed away.

That's the thing about the internet. It's really good at giving you pointless facts like how many horses a star owns, but not important things like how to invade his trailer.

The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isnt it?

As an actor, you get hired for what you last did. And I guess it just becomes your choice or obligation to do different things.

Guys like Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Sacha Baron Cohen, they do things you love to watch. I like to do the other half.

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.

I often don't like seeing how different things are made. I'm not a big fan of behind the scenes stuff.

You're letting go of having the best possible experience you can have regardless of who you are and where you are. I think that can be applied to all things, but it's easier said than done.

One of the fun things about being an actor is stepping outside yourself and outside of your own experience. It's challenging yourself to totally commit to something that in your core is so wrong.

I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that.

I'm eager to do movies of different genres. I would love to not be confined by genre and do a lot of different things.

It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.

Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.

You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.

I never say a funny thing intentionally.

In the winter I was with Nelson Piquet. He was talking about his capacity to race faster. He said that he was still learning new things all the time.

Without big words, how could many people say small things?

What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?

In a career, when you hit 40 and you've done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to the other.

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.

Love is jealous that any should come before her, or after. She would be all in all. If a man will trust her and live in her, he shall know all things.

Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.

One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures.

... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.

I've never heard anybody in my family say anything but good things about Rick Perry.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.

I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when youre depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.

All good things, all godly things, have been counterfeited by the devil.

I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.

The good thing about a jail show is nobody gets up and walks out.

You can recruit the populace conservatism for the interests of corporate conservatism that the two things can be married into one unholy union.

One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To not impose your own personal experience as the One True Way.

He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken.

Cuban mechanics obviously have to be the best mechanics in the world.They're going to figure out all sorts of things to do.

All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing.

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

Now I have to do a lot more work. I have to train more and do a lot more, you know, work on my body and take care of the little things in order to feel great for my body to be in good shape.

I think that, for me, my favorite thing to do is perform standup onstage. Everything else I do is for the exposure to do more stand-up onstage, and for the money, and for the health insurance.

The best thing about being 45 is not taking myself so seriously.

I put a lot of time and effort into the exercise I get, the amount of rest and sleep I get, and the amount I eat. And I think those three things are really kind of my wellness and health foundation.