The Thing Quotes

The commercial music video industry is very hard to break into, and until you break in, that first job is the hardest thing in the world to get.

I don't think anybody really thinks that one should get rid of the World Bank. Reform is one thing, but getting rid of it I think would be wrong.

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.

The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.

There are a lot of people who are eager to assign blame. I think we're [USA] eager to try and find some solutions. One thing that would help would be comprehensive immigration reform legislation.

Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.

Acting is one thing, but actually trying to change the world and the way people think to make people's lives better? That's the stuff I'm most proud of.

One thing I’ve noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.

One thing I will commit to the people of Ohio is, when I'm a U.S. senator and there's issues being debated in Washington, when I'm a U.S. senator they'll know exactly what my position is.

One thing I'm most proud of, in my movies, is that I think the performances are super-strong, but that's not all me. I think part of it is casting appropriately.

I love fighting. One thing that is the key to that is I always love training. I love to. And I never drink before, no alcohol in my life, no smoke, nothing. I love training.

One thing that I discovered about myself is I really don't like traveling. I feel like it's a terrible personal failing, but I was so satisfied to arrive at the conclusion.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

Do what's right, first. Don't sit around and wait for someone else to do the right thing first.

Find the one thing you’re good at and FOCUS on it.

Love is the hardest thing to grasp. You have to seize it at once, else it may be too late.

I dont like sticking to just one thing; it bores me.

One thing we can probably agree on is that the truth, however we define it, is often hard to tell. It can be hard to tell the facts of the story, and it can be hard to tell its emotional truth too.

In the past few months, I've become convinced of one thing: If I were a man, I'd be paid more.

To write is to right things. A path will emerge.

Has WikiLeaks been forced to do one thing rather than another in response to resource constraints? Yes. Constantly.

When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual

It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.

The hardest thing to do as an actor is to be simplistic, and to just be.

At that moment he knew one thing. The only thing that mattered. He loved her.

I never have time to myself; it's the one thing about my life I would probably hope to change.

I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.

One thing that I would like to do that I've seen them not do that well is take women all through the process of the postpartum period in a more meaningful way. That would be my agenda.

So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.

Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.

Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another. [Lat., Nunquam aliud Natura aliud Sapientia dicit.]

One thing I am sure of is that I won't judge a dance reality show.

Every artist's world is an individual experience and no one thing can prepare you. You have to go in and go where those roles lead you - just allow it to happen and follow your path.

Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.

The hardest thing [for me] is to 'just' agree, and that is what sparks creativity, the feeling that something can be better, the feeling that something's missing, the feeling that something's needed.

One thing that I like to do is use words that have never actually been used in a rap song before. I also like to take words that have negative connotations and show their real meaning.

I am all too human, I don't always do the right thing, so how can I expect others to perform perfectly on the issues that are my top priority?

If you're gonna do something weird, just have one thing be weird.

Were not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, thats just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.

I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.

Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.

I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

One thing I learned about people is that they love to give their opinions about things.

January has only one thing to be said for it: it is followed by February. Nothing so well becomes its passing.

I do like change. That's the one thing exciting about me.

We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.

One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is as important as, if not more important than, what is put in.