Thing Quotes

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it's the easiest thing to cook and then we try to make it seem fancy.

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.

And one more thing.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That's the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There's plenty of air around you.

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

But there is something seductive and the character, Alfie is so charming, and does make you think like you are the most important thing in the world but he's not that nice, is he.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

I'm totally not against plastic surgery. I've tried Botox before. That's the only thing that I've done.

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.

I love acting like I'm in love. It's a very positive thing.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.