Thing Quotes

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have these days begins - whether it's someone I'm meeting for the first time or someone I just haven't seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, 'It's insane! And, as a person, I can't do anything!'

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

Intimacy is a wonderful thing. It's frustrating that growing up I thought it was wrong. It isn't. Exploring your sexuality is important when you're growing up.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?