Thing Quotes

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.