Thing Quotes

I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well - it's good for the environment and to be fair it's also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive.

A thing well done is worth doing.

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.

Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.