Things Quotes

The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

All Thing Serve the Beam

It's like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all's well. You get off it and the next thing you know you're lost if you're not lucky.

I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it).

It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.

I have two amazing things in my life: I'm pain-free and I'm debt-free.

My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie.

Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.

I don't really know where the songs are coming from often. Many of the best things I made up were just off the top of my head.

We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!

Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people wont.

I've been able to do a lot of interesting things.

Everything in my world was about him. What a silly thing to expect.

Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised?

That's the funny thing about knowing you can't have something. It makes you desperate.

Body and soul. Two different things

Thats the beautiful thing about being human: Things change.

Getting the big things right that make all the money, that's long cycle, really executing in a way that allows you to do it, that's short cycle.

It's hard to invent a new thing, and it's just as hard to invent another new thing.

Different things just strike people differently. And it's so subjective, too. Because what makes one person laugh won't make others laugh. I guess it's kind of checkerboarded.

You're so in love with your children that you'd do anything for them; that's not necessarily the best thing.

I don't think something necessarily has to be mean or cynical to represent 'edgy.' I think 'edgy' can mean a lot of different things.

Frankly, I like new things. I feel like I made a contribution to building a more interactive world. And I'm proud of that.

But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen

I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.

I'm better at accepting the people who don't have nice things to say about me anonymously, but until you've experienced it, you don't understand how much it can affect you and mess with your mind.

I've put an umbrella in my mouth and opened it. I sat in a lemon-meringue pie. I've done terrible things to my dog with a fork.

It's cool to challenge myself to learn new things as opposed to going to play basketball in the park for millionth time.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

The werewolf film is a strange thing.

I guess there's just a time for doing dumb things.

UPS stands as an example of a company thats already doing great things.

[Taboo] has been exactly the same as working with the BBC in that creatively they do that precious thing which is to only make a comment when a comment needs to be made.

I don't think that jealousy and love and hate and anger and all those things have changed in the past 200 years - people just express themselves differently.

There is no such thing in life as normal.

Something about the topic of consciousness makes people, like the White Queen in Through The Looking Glass, believe six impossible things before breakfast.

Start before you’re ready. Good things happen when we start before we’re ready.

It's a funny thing with the inspiration thing. There's always loads of music around that I absolutely love and films going back to when I started making film music in the mid-80's.

Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer.

It's a weird thing to say, but it would appear to me axiomatic that if you understood fully what I was doing and appreciated it, you would like it.

There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

I have no problem with anyone being precise about small things.

One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.

If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts.

The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage.

I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.

I think that's one of the great things about the travel. One day I am at home in Sheffield, the next day I'm playing the Hollywood Bowl. It's extraordinary.

But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.