Thing Quotes

The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.

Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.