Thing Quotes

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

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.

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.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.

I don't want to be in magazines everyday, because I don't want people to get used to one thing.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy.