Things Quotes

Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.

I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.

It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.

A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare things tend to be fragile and you have to be careful about them

When all candles are out, all cats are grey, All things are then of one color, as who say. And this proverb faith, for quenching hot desire, Foul water as soon as faire, will quench hot fire.

One of the key things that we did at Bank of North Dakota that I worked to try to do with our state economic development is make sure we are customer-service oriented.

There may be arrangements to have me retired but I don't know. Things happen that I enjoy doing, and as long as I enjoy doing them I'll go about doing them, I guess.

Being wrong about important things is exhausting.

Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.

I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.

One of the wonderful things about music these days is that it's less cliqueish.

We've just let too many things happen. And now, try to turn around and fix it. Getting involved in a [Syria] civil war directly was never something I thought made sense.

Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

I'm not going to pretend that bad things don't happen. I just hope my daughter has enough understanding that when they do, just give me a call.

To me, television is one of the most exciting things going on right now, as far as content goes. Some of these shows that are on television are better than any of the movies out there.

Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.

Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.

The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.

Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.

One of the fun things about play is making up stories.

If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.

Artists in general never stay in the same place, we keep growing. It's still you, you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.

It's a little bit hard to have personal things subject to public scrutiny, and it's a pressure that other people aren't under, but then they're under a lot of pressures that we're not under.

All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate.

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

The brain doesn't pay attention to boring things.

Rock'n'roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song.

Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.

So little knows Any, but God alone, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.

None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.

Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.

Every good thing great and small needs defense

Teenagers falling off skateboards - funny. Nut shots - funny. Breaking wind - funny. The world cannot change those. Those three things are columns upon which humor is built.

Looking and seeing are two different things.

The two most important things to athletes, playing time and money.

Hillary Clinton has done amazing things and she's not done yet.

The best thing I ever did was give my family everything I could.

The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.

Irritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more serious things

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.

The good thing about directing yourself is that you get over yourself.

Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.