Thing Quotes

I've got a closet full of tuxes, and I appreciate that, because one thing I don't like to do is shop.

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.

A lot of my best stuff is just ad libs on stage and that's one thing that I've gotten back to at the live show.

I think for one thing, kids are a lot smarter now then we ever were.

Of course, having information to use is one thing. Knowing what it means and how to use it is a different story.

The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images that appear in the text.

Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to any one thing. I just always loved books and writing.

Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.

Really, the one thing that actually works - you know, state-run communism may not be your cup of tea, but [China's] government works.

If you put the right things into the universe, the right things will come to you.

It is one thing to play for your university. It is another to play for your country.

I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.

Mommy. It's just the one thing you don't want to mess up.

One thing I think I've always felt about being in nature is that it's a very natural taste.

I'm 52 years old and blindness has been the single hardest thing I deal with every minute of every day.

The hardest thing is never what you think it's going to be.

Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.

To my parents and all the people who reassured me that leaving high school and going into the draft was the right thing to do, I am forever thankful.

The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.

Screenplays are the hardest thing to try to get right. They look so simple when they work, but they really destroy your brain cells trying to get them there.

I think you've got to be honest with yourself at what you're good at. That's the hardest thing to do.

To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.

I like that Ben & Jerry's is willing to speak out about social and political issues that aren't always safe - but are the right thing to do.

The hardest thing in comedy is to have the biggest laugh at the end, and it’s the most satisfying thing.

No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story.

Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is about causality that we don't immediately understand.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.

My style is constantly evolving. Style has been something that I think has been the hardest thing for me to come to terms with.

I get really bored if I don't have more than one thing going on.

She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.

One thing I've discovered is that people in the military have a sense of purpose. They feel useful, and everything is laid out in front of them. What their job is, is very clear.

Hillary Clinton says one thing herself, but she has other people who are floating her plans.

Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else.

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.

One thing I'm afraid of is not taking advantage of opportunities. I feel like these are kind of gifts.

If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'

[Superman and Lois are] kindred spirits, and they always choose to do the right thing.

If there is one thing to get excited about, it's your ability to turn the negative into success.

They say the one thing that people who live the longest have in common is that they have a religious belief.

A new study found that a mother's diet affects her baby's allergies. Which can only mean one thing: My mom ate cats.

One thing Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug.

My personal style is over-the-top dowager. The old days they said get dressed and take one thing off, I say get dressed and put one thing on.

I guess the one thing that people don't know about me is, I had my belly button pierced but not anymore.

Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.

if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.

The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

I did love Cher from Clueless. She had a great '90s wardrobe. The pleated skirts and the little knee-high socks and the whole school-girl thing.

'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.

The one thing that I really want, ... is for our second group to be an energy unit. That's what we had in our championship run, and that's what I think you are starting to see with this group.