All Quotes

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.
‐‐ Anne Rice

The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new morality' is all right. They say we're living in a new generation; let's be relevant, let's change God's law. Let's say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication's all right under certain circumstances. If it's 'meaningful.'
‐‐ Billy Graham

The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.
‐‐ Jesse Schell

The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is, even divorce, your dog dies, whatever it is, the consequence, in terms of people's emotional lives and the way it resonates behaviorally for a long time, is really the stuff that interests me.
‐‐ Steven Bochco

The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.
‐‐ Pete Carroll

The thing that always struck me about 'Jonny Quest' is: What kind of parent brings his kid to the Amazon so that yetis can throw boulders at him?
‐‐ Christopher McCulloch

The thing that 'Annie' means to me is that it is good to always be strong, and if you have a goal, go for it, and if there is something in your way, just go around and find your path again, and go for your goal.
‐‐ Quvenzhane Wallis

The thing that attracted me to acting the most was I always felt quite unsure or insecure as a kid, and for some reason, when I got to perform these lines and characters, I felt safe. There was this confidence and excitement from performing that I loved.
‐‐ Christie Laing

The thing that attracted me to 'CSI' is that these guys are always professional, but underneath, it's teeming with a heavy shadow. Maybe even some decadence and some weirdness with certain characters! And that always intrigued me as an actor.
‐‐ Paul Guilfoyle

The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.
‐‐ Clarence Thomas

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox

The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid.
‐‐ Kathy Griffin

The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
‐‐ Manika

The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
‐‐ Taiye Selasi

The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.
‐‐ Charles E. Wilson

The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends.
‐‐ Kathy Griffin

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

The thing that differs me from a lot of other people running for the President of the United States is that I focus on the problem first. Then I focus on what the solution is.
‐‐ Herman Cain

The thing that disturbs me the most, being in England, is that on the screen we don't see very many of us - there aren't very many black girls. They don't make the roles for us, or they don't see us in those roles.
‐‐ Cynthia Erivo

The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's the most interesting: the part that doesn't go according to what you expected.
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman

The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.
‐‐ Colin Quinn

The thing that drives me more than anything else is being a father.
‐‐ Dean Cain

The thing that drives me nuts is when I get stopped in a crowded place, and they look at me and say, 'Who are you?' I don't know if they're friends or fans, and I say, 'I'm Annabella Sciorra', and they say, 'What have you done?' So I start to give them my resume. It's so embarrassing.
‐‐ Annabella Sciorra

The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting.
‐‐ Bobby Bowden

The thing that enchants me the most is the ability women have to feel other people's pain. The total empathy that women have is extraordinary.
‐‐ Ashton Kutcher

The thing that every parent hopes for is that the baby's healthy, I'm healthy. No matter how you feel, that's the most important thing.
‐‐ Bryce Dallas Howard

The thing that everyone liked about 'Entourage' is that these are fish-out-of-water guys living this dream.
‐‐ Kevin Connolly

The thing that everyone remembers about 'Bambi' is that moment. 'The Lion King,' took it to quite an extreme because it was an action sequence: his father was killed in a wildebeest stampede - I related, because mine was, too.
‐‐ Nathan Lane

The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
‐‐ Biz Stone

The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.
‐‐ Tom Hooper

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.
‐‐ Alice McDermott

The thing that fuels me the most is the desire to be on stage. And singing is the ultimate way of expressing all the emotions that I have inside.
‐‐ Danielle de Niese

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.
‐‐ Joni Mitchell

The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.
‐‐ Samuel Larsen

The thing that got me closest to doing Kermit was remembering what Jim did when he was doing Kermit. When he would do Kermit, there were certain faces that he made. There was a certain way he stood, a certain kind of body language that he had.
‐‐ Steve Whitmire

The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game.
‐‐ Dennis Eckersley

The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?
‐‐ Stephen Wolfram

The thing that got me started on Twitter was just basically pressure from management and the record company saying, 'Hey, this is what all the other artists are doing. You need to be doing it also.' I didn't really have a clue what is was.
‐‐ Blake Shelton

The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.
‐‐ Dan Chaon

The thing that happened in Ferguson touched many of us in a specific way.
‐‐ Benjamin Watson

The thing that happened with the music business, there are no stores anymore where you can buy music. It's all an online business now, and that's, you know - the bookstore culture is a very vibrant part of the American experience that we're very reluctant to see go away.
‐‐ Jonathan Galassi

The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public and say, 'Let's put more money into taller fences, tougher laws, tougher sentencing, handcuffs,' and where does that money come from? Well, immediately, it comes out of all the money needed for corrections.
‐‐ Eugene Jarecki

The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to do their dissertation. They need to interview me.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

The thing that has always struck me is that there has always been a bit of a hole at YouTube when it comes to authenticity, human emotion, fun and play.
‐‐ Ze Frank

The thing that has made YouTube so successful is that you can relate to the people you're watching to a much higher degree than to the people you see on TV.
‐‐ PewDiePie

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.
‐‐ Phoebe Snow

The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
‐‐ Alton Brown

The thing that I always respected about Bruce Arians was, when he was at Pittsburgh, he let Ben Roethlisberger decide what he liked. I used to do that. You can put something in and force-feed it to a quarterback. But if he doesn't like it and have his heart in it, it's not going to be as good as when he really likes something.
‐‐ John Madden

The thing that I came to realize was that Schulz is the great unifier. Here's the one cartoonist that pretty much everybody can agree on.
‐‐ Chip Kidd