Thing Quotes

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

The thing about looking back over Clinton's presidency, and probably anybody's presidency, is that when you look back, the events all line up in a way that makes sense. At the time, you don't know where it's going.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.

When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.

Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?