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The most important thing is work.

To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me.

I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

There's nothing that beats proving you're funny by making a funny thing, and right now there are huge outlets for that, with You Tube and all the other stuff online.

Nothing happens except by the permissive or active Will of Allah.

One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and what you care about or what you're good at.

Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible; it always has the last word.

Sympathy is a sweet thing.

Character demonstrates itself in trifles.

Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied.

Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.

Great men are sometimes so even in small things.

To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.

It is easier to say new things than to reconcile those which have already been said.

I realize that books are not the entire world, even if they sometimes seem to contain it. But I need the stupid things.

I do like moving my legs a lot, like maybe moon walk-y things. I don't have like one move, because I try as much as I can. But I just love imitating impossible things that dancers do.

Fortunately, like all good things, Christmas Day does come to an end.

Of course, Im older now. Im in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for Car Wheels or Essence or whatever. Different things were going on.

I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.

All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.

No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.

Wouldn't it be nice if roses could talk? I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things.

[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.

Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.

I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

Gaddafi's a great bloke. The media only show the bad things. I used to go round his house. His son's a super simple guy. All the Gaddafis are very down to earth.

I think change is always a good thing. Change keeps things moving.

I think no matter what, science can provide a force for good, fundamentally. Over time, like all things, it's open to abuse.

I'm just online too much. I drink too much. A lot of bad things.

I've been trying to bust into the comedy business my whole life. It's hard in Hollywood to do different things. I know this. It's a struggle.

I always love to learn new things. That's the reason I like being an actor.

I like to tell young people - you know one in four children die by their own hands - no matter how bad things seem, just wait a day, wait a week. Life will turn around.

the excess of all good things is mischievous.

When the play is still evolving I try to be at rehearsal as often as possible, and part of that casting process. You find new things when the language is living in different people's mouths.

I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.

... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.

I think the hardest part [is] the priorities. There are an awful lot of things to do [being Secretary of State].

This imperiousness which aids us in all things is merely a fitting authority which comes from superior spirit.

Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense of discrimination.

Like and equal are two entirely different things.

Santa cAme early this year! good things come to those who wait! ❤ #rebelheart

I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?

She screamed, the high scream that was neither human nor animal but something terrible in between, the sort of sound that you never forget no matter how many beautiful things you hear afterward.

It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.

Not dead-dying. Funny how two things could be so similar and yet so far apart

This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do so many different things. I never knew there were so many different ways to say goodbye.

I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move.

Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.