Thing Quotes

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.

There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands; people are editing it, they're cutting it, marketing it. And it's... part your career sort of rides on that. But when you're actually filming it's a team thing and it really feels good there for me.

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

When you give, give from the place of the heart because it is the right thing to do, not the easy thing to do.

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Waxing my legs is pretty much the only thing I have to maintain.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.