Thing Quotes

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

I don't think it's a bad thing to share how you feel, especially if people can relate to it.

One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

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

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure.