Thing Quotes

One thing I think is least realistic is that there were five people that made decisions in the fictional 'West Wing.' In real life, there are about five million people that weigh in.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

I was never into the boy crazy thing because I was very focused on my career.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.

We conservatives don't have a corner on saying 'no'. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say.

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what's happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that's a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.

There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands; people are editing it, they're cutting it, marketing it. And it's... part your career sort of rides on that. But when you're actually filming it's a team thing and it really feels good there for me.