Things Quotes
There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.
Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.
A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death.
When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.
Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.
The best thing about New York is everything is available. Whatever you want, New York has got it!
I'm kind of a nerd in that I get really excited about things... I love anticipating if they're going to like their rooms or not.
Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
I have so many great things going on in my life that I don't need to pay attention to some writer.
Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.
Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together.
What stirs my passion is making cinema, and that means doing different things, making different types of films.
The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.
Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.
The loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing.
Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.
The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they’re the very thing that saves us.
even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice
Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.
Right now my favorite thing is working to recall our absolute shitbag of a governor. He's been screwing up my state for more than a year. I want him out.
I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things.
I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide.
There's something kind of beautiful about that pure love of things. Like, "I'll show that I love the thing I love by hating everything else."
Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things.
I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark.
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.
I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.
Learning is a good thing, but unless it's tempered by faith and a love of freedom, it can be very dangerous indeed.
It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational.
I wrote a lot of software to do various kinds of special things, and I loved the idea of composing pieces in an electronic studio.
There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.
The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.
I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.
A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.
Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.
Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must admit that criminals are not unlike our heroes in this respect.
I feel I have lived my whole life, day to day, without planning anything and I like it that way. Things change so fast, one minute you are here, the next minute you are on a plane, it's great fun.
There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.
Having a diverse sense of taste - or lack of taste - I loved so many different things. I was drawn to the stupidity and excitement of glam, I had a thorough upbringing in rhythm and blues.
