All Quotes

The thing about darts is that you've got to shout. It's not like cricket where you can talk to Michael Atherton and ask him to analyse the bloody nuances. Darts does not have nuances. You've got to hurl yourself at it.
‐‐ Sid Waddell

The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.
‐‐ Hannah Simone

The thing about death is that it's honest.
‐‐ Laura Linney

The thing about delirium is you think it's great, but it actually isn't.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
‐‐ Molly Ivins

The thing about 'Doctor Who' is it's chased around the world, so there's 50 fans hanging out at every location.
‐‐ Tom Riley

The thing about documentary is that you don't really choose your subjects: they come and grab you out of your bed.
‐‐ Beeban Kidron

The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time.
‐‐ Francesca Annis

The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!
‐‐ Robbie Williams

The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.
‐‐ Andy Taylor

The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling

The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it.
‐‐ Sara Blakely

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.
‐‐ Tom Cruise

The thing about football is when you've got guys that work hard and do things the right way, it'll come together... it's supposed to if you put the work in.
‐‐ Stefon Diggs

The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.
‐‐ Jason Alexander

The thing about 'Game of Thrones' is it doesn't pin too much of a focus on magic. It kind of paints it in the same way that mystical things are portrayed in our world, because you don't walk about Westeros and see wizards with staffs or magical wands. All the characters don't really believe in it. It's this mysterious hidden vein to Westeros.
‐‐ Isaac Hempstead Wright

The thing about games is, players often say they don't care about story, but then if you took the story out, what would their reaction be? If no one cared about story, we'd all still be playing Pac-Man. There's nothing wrong with Pac-Man, but the point is, there's a genre of games in which you want to become part of that world.
‐‐ Karen Traviss

The thing about getting older is the injuries. You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.
‐‐ Allen Johnson

The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it got on the air It's a very specific rhythm and a very specific banter.
‐‐ Amy Sherman-Palladino

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.
‐‐ David Whyte

The thing about Green Lantern rings is they pick whoever has potential to overcome great fear.
‐‐ Geoff Johns

The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.
‐‐ Brent Sexton

The thing about growing old is you have to accept it - if you don't, you'll be as miserable as sin. You've got to try and find the few good things about it.
‐‐ Judy Parfitt

The thing about having a very young mother who had you at 20 is that you expect that you're going to be old ladies together.
‐‐ Julianne Moore

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.
‐‐ Bill Gates

The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.
‐‐ Marion Ross

The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.
‐‐ Clive Owen

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.
‐‐ Russell Simmons

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
‐‐ Barack Obama

The thing about Hitchcock which is quite extraordinary for a director of that time, he had a very strong sense of his own image and publicizing himself. Just a very strong sense of himself as the character of Hitchcock.
‐‐ Toby Jones

The thing about 'Hold Back The River' that I like is that it's a good starting place, and it was the perfect first single.
‐‐ James Bay

The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of the place. I had about as good a run there as anybody, but it's still a tough ask. I mean, the person I think with the best career in Australia is Ray Meagher, in 'Home and Away.'
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

The thing about homebodies is that they can usually be found at home. I usually am, and I like to feed people.
‐‐ Laurie Colwin

The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
‐‐ Baltasar Kormakur

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.
‐‐ Dennis Potter

The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it's all downhill from that point.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.
‐‐ Paul Merton

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
‐‐ Harrison Birtwistle

The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an exception for business information and super timely information, but in all other cases, ideas that spread win.
‐‐ Seth Godin

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
‐‐ Vikram Seth

The thing about interviews is that if someone interviews you, and they're an idiot, then they make you sound like an idiot, too. They ask you stupid questions, and they bring you down to their level. It's tempting to not ever want to talk to anybody, but you can't do that.
‐‐ Dean Wareham

The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team.
‐‐ Dale Earnhardt

The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
‐‐ Oscar Robertson

The thing about it is, I'm one of these people that if you're not getting anywhere, you gotta change it up, and you gotta ask more questions.
‐‐ Paul Gosar

The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.
‐‐ Eddie Murphy

The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

The thing about living in Los Angeles and doing a lot of movies is that you get to go to a lot of premieres, and, regardless of whether or not you're a celebrity, you still get to walk down the red carpet and then have everyone sort of screaming your name. The pictures never get printed anywhere, but they are nonetheless taking your picture.
‐‐ Missi Pyle

The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.
‐‐ Stella Young

The thing about living without a father if he's always gone is that it takes a long time to realize he isn't coming home.
‐‐ Stephen Rodrick