The Thing Quotes

There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends

If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing.

That one thing you do give up when you get married is that magic moment of meeting someone, and the sparks and the spontaneity.

Remington Tate, I swear to you—I swear—that when I’m able to get up from this stupid bed and run again, you’re always, always, going to be the one thing I’ll run straight to.

What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

I never want to be just one thing - I want to be multidimensional.

One thing I really, truly believe in is having something greater than myself to be grateful to.

When you listen to people who have accomplished so much, the one thing they always say is, "I didn't let anybody stop me." I really, really, steadfastly believe that.

One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event.

I know one thing. If a NASCAR driver ever got on the court with me, they wouldn't be able to keep up. That would be like me driving a bus in a NASCAR race.

I want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids.

I learned how to pass when I was real young. That's one thing I always knew how to do was find the open man.

England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.

The hardest thing is that you can't trust people now. You just can't.

One thing that is sometimes forgotten in this "future of books" discussion is that there are all these awesome presses - big and small - that are producing and designing amazing books.

One thing I discovered is that the book world is vast. It's easy to walk around the store - even the room with literature and poetry, where I work most often - and feel overwhelmed.

One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker.

If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.

One thing that will make you quit smoking is sitting across from Keith Richards all night. I don't mind being ugly, but I sure don't want to look like that.

I want one thing I can point to and say, 'that is good, and it's a part of me.'

No matter what your goals are, you've got to bring other people onto your team. For one thing, if you surround yourself with people who want to be successful, you become successful.

It's my calling to tell stories. It's the one thing that scratches the itch for me.

People tend to lock into one thing that you do that they consider to be better than the last one.

I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation.

One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.

Every director works differently but one thing's important: they must have a vision. If they don't have a vision I don't care how they work.

A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing.

Sometimes that's the hardest thing is to not do anything, but just to trust what's on the page.

I'm really compulsive with music. I listen too much, and I can't listen to one thing. I love iTunes Genius.

That love doesn’t come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle. Everything else is so hard; hopefully love is the one thing that is actually fun.

One thing I have learned is, if people tell you they had a "frank" discussion with someone, it is usually code for a yelling match with clenched fists.

There's often more than one correct thing. There's often more than one right thing. There's often more than one obvious thing.

But I've also spread my net very wide. If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.

People want movies to be one thing or another; they want it be fact or fiction.

Manipulating situations is one thing, but lying is another. My theory (especially with girls) is that if you don't lie, you can't be held responsible for anything bad that goes down.

The one thing I've learned about friends is that the good ones are rare.

One thing you can't miss in your suitcase is a hat.

It's one thing to be this 'tough chick,' but you also have to be likeable.

The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals.

I'm used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tug-of-war.

When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.

Trying to turn the Congress the President on the Iran deal, - it's one thing to do that - it's a giant moment in Israeli politics to decide to do that.

One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!

The best thing that ever happened to me was losing last year in the Finals. I had to change.

There's never a benefit to bragging too much about a deal because the only sure thing is that I'm probably going to be dealing with that same general manager or that same person over and over again.