Thing Quotes

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D, I haven't quite got it yet. Yet.

I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

I've always loved to combine different scents to come up with my own unique thing.

A joke is a very serious thing.

I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

Family comes first. You're the only thing they have.

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.