All Quotes

The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.
‐‐ Matt Groening

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood

The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.
‐‐ Lewis Black

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.
‐‐ Richard Powers

The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
‐‐ Cam Newton

The thing that makes vivid writing is when the reader is in the body of the story, the body of the character. Things smell like something; there's weather, there's texture, there's light.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
‐‐ Sally Mann

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
‐‐ Lorraine Hansberry

The thing that means the most to me is being remembered as a Yankee, because that's what I've always wanted to be, was to be a Yankee.
‐‐ Derek Jeter

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.
‐‐ Geraldine Brooks

The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a standard Southern storytelling voice that is typical of the Gulf Coast - Mississippi, Alabama and so on.
‐‐ Gregory Benford

The thing that most interests me about writing - there are lots of things, but the thing I can't do without - is the hit of happiness a lovely sentence delivers.
‐‐ Elizabeth McCracken

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.
‐‐ Jeff Bezos

The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.
‐‐ Nate Silver

The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media.
‐‐ Eric Schmidt

The thing that probably trips me up the most are people getting tattoos of stuff that I've designed in my books. That always spins me out in a weird way. It seems like such a permanent commitment to something I've done. I don't know that I could do that for anyone else.
‐‐ Jonathan Hickman

The thing that really gets to me is that countries are in the news only when things get out of hand. That's when it's newsworthy. When the war ends, it's not newsworthy anymore; no one wants to think about it. Actually, the aftermath is the most important part. It's when people have to rebuild.
‐‐ Ishmael Beah

The thing that really makes me happy is the real work and rehearsing and creating the character and the process of making the movie. Hollywood's not real.
‐‐ Penelope Cruz

The thing that really struck me was how many firms that we think of as strictly civilian had ties to the Pentagon. Companies like Apple, Starbucks, Oakley the sunglasses manufacturer. Even Google, and a lot of big corporations like PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive, and Nestle, that you don't normally think of as defense contractors.
‐‐ Nick Turse

The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.
‐‐ Lynda Barry

The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants.
‐‐ Dave Foley

The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
‐‐ C. Everett Koop

The thing that runs through the British film industry even today is a lot of unsung movies are financially the bigger ones. Even though they weren't always the greatest of movies, something in them was very potent which people loved.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

The thing that's always struck me about Coach Marinelli's defenses is how fast and aggressive they play.
‐‐ Josh McDaniels

The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations.
‐‐ Grant Morrison

The thing that's been inhibiting long-form investigative reporting is fear - fear of being sued, of being unpopular, of being criticized by very powerful groups.
‐‐ Eric Schlosser

The thing that's been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is - I think then, and I think now - that if we didn't do this, someone else would have done it.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg

The thing that's caught me off guard is going to dinner and people asking me for autographs or to take a picture. People coming to my house asking for autographs - that's something I really haven't grasped the whole entirety of yet.
‐‐ Johnny Manziel

The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.
‐‐ Jeffrey Katzenberg

The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
‐‐ Larry the Cable Guy

The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.
‐‐ Laurie Anderson

The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?
‐‐ Ben Horowitz

The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase.
‐‐ Ron Perlman

The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school!
‐‐ Maxine Kumin

The thing that's fun about the 'Housewives' is talking to your friends about it.
‐‐ Andy Cohen

The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead.
‐‐ Charles Nelson Reilly

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.
‐‐ Afrika Bambaataa

The thing that's great about being a costume designer is you never know what's going to be next; you never what world you are going to enter.
‐‐ Colleen Atwood

The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two funniest guys I've ever met in my life.
‐‐ Ted Demme

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
‐‐ Diane Arbus

The thing that's nice about pregnancy is that in the end, you have a baby.
‐‐ Ann Romney

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
‐‐ M. Night Shyamalan

The thing that's really cool for me about Miami Beach is you have this dichotomy between sunlight and family and happiness and innocence and then at night, darker, stranger mob conspiracy stuff sort of comes out. It seems like a storytelling engine. You can just keep writing about how those two worlds smash into each other.
‐‐ Mitch Glazer

The thing that's really kept me on my toes is how my mom would always tell me - it's not the best thing for a mother to tell you - but she'd never tell me after I'd lose a soccer game, 'You'll do better next time.' She'd always say, 'There's always somebody better.'
‐‐ Brandon Flowers

The thing that's strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars.
‐‐ Irwin Winkler

The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices - just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing - it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.
‐‐ Kara DioGuardi

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.
‐‐ Sean Penn

The thing that's wonderful about social media is that we are able to give a voice to the voiceless and to help educate each other. I benefit from it as much as I provide those lessons.
‐‐ Olivia Wilde

The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon - which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.
‐‐ Oren Peli

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.
‐‐ Shirley Knight