Thing Quotes

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?

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship, and I thought that was the most important thing.

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.