Thing Quotes

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

People have a right to be a Democrat. People have a right to be wrong. I know they're the same thing.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

I happily cling to my guns and my God, even if President Obama thinks that that is a simpleminded thing in his elitist heart.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.

Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!

I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.