Things Quotes

Observing and understanding are two different things.

But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.

I grew up as this little Catholic girl who just wanted to make beautiful things. I expressed myself with paint.

Movies are a commitment. They take years of your life and they have big consequences. That's one of the bad things about movies - you're stuck with the aftermath.

People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?

I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate and not graceful is actually a good thing.

The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.

I get up because there is just so much out there and you just don't know what's going to happen, that's the great thing.

To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.

Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.

The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.

We have souls. Sure we do. Otherwise we'd do bad things all the time. You know, like politicians.

A: Everything changes. B: But not enough.

The soul is no longer honored as it once was, but it still keeps appetite from being the measure of all things.

Everything changes as it is written down.

Leading a band is fun, but it's not always something I want to continually focus on. I have my toes in a lot of different things.

Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.

Little things can make such a big difference during recording.

That's the weird thing about music: It's never for anyone to own.

That's another interesting thing about music: It can mean anything.

You have to look past the cool things and play the game. That's why you're here, to play the game.

If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.

The funny thing for me is, I have never lived in a network world.

I have to say, as a showrunner, being niche-y is kind of a great thing.

That was one of the key things - when you asked the story about the writing of the story - one of the things we wanted to make sure was that it grew out of.

One of the fun things for me, about acting, is trying to transform. Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor, in the first place.

Some conservatives are traditionalists, and the idea of breaking things up and changing things is concerning to them at times.

One of the exciting things about producing a comic is seeing the artist stamp his own interpretation on it.

You can't help hearing things that are popular when you're young and impressionable.

When you have only 10 episodes to do and you know there's so many fun things that you have left unresolved, you have to figure out what happens to all of your supporting characters.

For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

Actors have to remind people that they can do different things, not just the same style of one role.

It's one of the things I love about making films: the places I've got to travel that I would never have gone to before.

I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not.

As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.

I am one of those actors who does feel a change when a wig and fake nose are put on. Even the weird little things, like glasses - it's almost like having a mask on.

One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.

I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons.

I wanted my wild things to be frightening.

I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.

Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much use for the latter.

All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.

I love Twitter. My favorite thing to do these days is to Tweet things that seem very questionable as to whether I’m joking or not.

What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing.

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.

When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.