Thing Quotes

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.

God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers.

There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.