All Quotes

The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.
‐‐ Nick Hanauer

The thing about using other people's money is they're going to set the rules.
‐‐ Tyler Perry

The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards.
‐‐ Elton John

The thing about villains is most people play them with the shifty eyes and all that, whereas I play them as good guys. 'Cos everyone thinks they're a goodie, don't they?
‐‐ Ray Winstone

The thing about 'Watchmen' that people should know is that when it came out there was absolutely nothing like it. Up until then, comics were about the same thing: a guy in tights fighting another guy in tights and saving the girl - that was it.
‐‐ Gerard Way

The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
‐‐ Pamela Adlon

The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. It's a nice problem to have.
‐‐ Andrew Stanton

The thing about working in Hollywood is that, at some point, you really get tired of hearing how godless you are, and how if you and the rest of the heathens in Tinsel town would put more God-centric shows on TV, people wouldn't be abandoning prime time in favor of their Bible study classes.
‐‐ John Ridley

The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
‐‐ Sam Altman

The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
‐‐ Frank Lloyd Wright

The thing as an actor is you get a sense of what a show is like the minute you walk on the set.
‐‐ David Morrissey

The thing early on that you think is 'wrong' with you, that makes you not fit in with everyone else, becomes the key to your career as an actor. Start embracing it.
‐‐ John Lloyd Young

The thing for me about Ayn Rand is that her philosophy is the only one applicable to the world today - in every sense. If you take her ideas, then take them farther in your own mind, you can find answers to pretty well everything on an individual basis.
‐‐ Neil Peart

The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
‐‐ Julian Casablancas

'The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me.
‐‐ George A. Romero

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
‐‐ Charles Dudley Warner

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.
‐‐ Jessica Brown Findlay

The thing I adore about Mariah the most is she's probably the most nurturing person I've ever met, like one of those spirits that walks into the room and wants to make sure that everybody's okay and taken care of. For someone to be at her status but be so concerned about others is really cool.
‐‐ Nick Cannon

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

The thing I always liked best about touring abroad was constantly running into different people, different cultures, different foods. It really pumped up my batteries... I'm constantly playing to a demographically diverse audience... one generation is driven by nostalgia, the next by curiosity. And that's why I have no plans to retire.
‐‐ Gene Pitney

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

The thing I always tell my audiences all the time is that I'm just two steps ahead of you on a good day. And I might be two steps behind you on a bad day.
‐‐ Iyanla Vanzant

The thing I always thought of myself as was an actress. I never thought: 'I want to be.' It was always: 'I am.'
‐‐ June Squibb

The thing I always try to remember is that feet are attached to the leg, and that you must prolong the silhouette. The shoe elongates the leg and does it discreetly. The goal is to get people to look at a woman's legs. It's all about the leg. No, it's not about the leg. It's about the woman.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

The thing I can say about all this stuff that's going on right now is that I appreciate it.
‐‐ Josh Duhamel

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.
‐‐ Brandi Chastain

The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel gyms and Chapstick containers... yet I have no desire to make my own bed. Ever. Seriously, who made me, and where am I from?
‐‐ Rachel Nichols

The thing I care about is my weight - I'm as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh myself every morning. I know exactly what I want to be - 82kg - and I try to stick to it.
‐‐ Tony Parsons

The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in.
‐‐ Alan Davies

The thing I do best is laugh.
‐‐ Cathy Freeman

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.
‐‐ Richard Thompson

The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.
‐‐ Natsuo Kirino

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.
‐‐ Chris Ware

The thing I enjoy about going fast is the risk-reward scenario you get. If you make good decisions, the benefits are amazing. If you get it wrong, you can lose so much.
‐‐ Nathan Outteridge

The thing I enjoy is that I have come to league as a union player, and I have to adapt to different situations I am facing.
‐‐ Sonny Bill Williams

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
‐‐ Herbert Hoover

The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.
‐‐ Michelle Shocked

The thing I fear most is fear.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

The thing I find about the movie industry is that 99 percent of the people are absolute scum. They're horrible people, they really are. Very nasty killer rabbits who hate movies. But the other 1 percent are really the greatest, most wonderful people in the world.
‐‐ Lloyd Kaufman

The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals?
‐‐ Flume

The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
‐‐ Oren Peli

The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.
‐‐ John Leguizamo

The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
‐‐ Lance Henriksen

The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh, I can't believe I'm here.' I find it vaguely sinister, even.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright

The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like waiting.
‐‐ Lee Hazlewood

The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.
‐‐ Christopher Lee

The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.
‐‐ Beeban Kidron

The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.
‐‐ Dave Ramsey