Stuff Quotes

I keep a notebook in my pocket, and I write down all the stuff we could ever do with Foursquare.

I was an abstract expressionist before I had seen any abstract expressionist paintings. I started when I was a kid and continued just doing abstract stuff all through high school.

He loves power. He loves control because others, you know, dad and stuff like that, but he's just a great guy. He's just a great guy.

The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out of my life and then contorts them.

Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue, and insisted that they liked the stuff.

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.

I don't lie. I would never stuff my bra because it's going to come off and the truth is going to be revealed. I don't like that padding. I try to be completely - if not brutally - honest.

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.

I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.

When I think about the stuff I turned down it's kind of insane.

I'm proud of most of the stuff I've put out and I hope my kids will look at it long after I'm gone and go, "hey, Daddy was cool once!"

I've been guilty of most of the stuff that's been said about me to some degree. And if I ain't done it, I probably will.

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.

I'm very upfront and very honest. I don't let a bunch of stuff fester and boil over.

The stunt guys are absolutely brilliant, but all this stuff [a scene] always looks better when you do it yourself.

I grew up learning this stuff on the streets of New York. My brother and I used to play in the subway for money.

It's naturally kind of humiliating and strange to have a microphone; when you're young you just make movies, you don't worry about all the peripheral stuff that comes with it.

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

It's something you can actually control. With writing, it feels like it's given to you, and when the good stuff hits, it feels like it's coming from some other planet.And you're just channeling it.

It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.

I'm not sure what the proper label might be, or the most accurate one, but someone once called my stuff Southern Ohio Gothic and I thought that was fair.

In Dallas, in Houston, the local stuff is great. But the national media is really brutal. So you know, I'd love to see the media get honest.

I said '17 - right now, this year, "'17 is going to be a disaster." I'm very good at this stuff.

I have been involved with this stuff [newspapers, television] all my life, but I'm involved, so I know when you're telling the truth and when you're not.

Twitter and Facebook and all of this stuff is, to me, I mean it's, for some reason - I'm probably not the youngest person using it. But for some reason, it works very well. I'm setting records.

Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.

Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.

Don't go taking that gospel stuff seriously. It's nice to clean you out now and then, but it ain't for real. It's like bad whiskey. Run through you fast and leave you with pain.

It's fun playing the judge, because I grew up on all the courtroom stuff in movies and TV. So, you know all the tropes, and you know all the expressions.

Technology is the name we give to stuff that doesn't work properly yet

We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual.

I fell in love at 14 and I remember that mad, tense feeling and all the mad things you do for the person - all those extremes and all the stuff you don't mind putting up with.

You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?

I loved Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" - it was really sexy and naughty and totally weird. When you're a kid watching that stuff on television you're like, "Well, we are opening up as a society!"

It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.

I'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood and stuff like that.

In Orlando, I handled a lot of stuff the wrong way.

I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's curious to me why people do like to be afraid.

Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't.

That's a rather flippant quote "drinking and writing bad poetry" from me. I mean, I said it, but I was doing other stuff too. I certainly didn't manage the full stretch of four years.

I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.

You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens.

It was never tough [ being the new guy]. It's just the warmest group of people [The Office stuff] you could ever hope to work with.

The improv stuff, that's always surprising so a lot of times that's really funny.

Growing up working with my dad, I really had no interest in doing the actual work, so I was always like drawing on the wood, doing stuff like that. It just has a real hands-on approach.