All Quotes

The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there.
‐‐ Steven Squyres

The thing that shocks people... is that I mean what I say. I don't use hyperbole.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

The thing that stand-up does for you is that it toughens you up a bit as far as the business goes. It's hard. If a joke doesn't get a laugh, that's instant rejection. And that's mostly what this business is most of the time: a lot of rejection.
‐‐ Melissa Rauch

The thing that started the peace movement in Ireland was anger - my anger. It wasn't anger; it was fury.
‐‐ Betty Williams

The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it's such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don't have time to think about anything else. You're just really present; you have to be, or else, you know, you can't stop the play.
‐‐ Sebastian Stan

The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.
‐‐ Vin Diesel

The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there's a feeling of tremendous elevation and even elation.
‐‐ Mark Helprin

The thing that struck me most after first viewing 'The Sessions' was the charm of Mark O'Brien and the intimacy that the director, Ben Lewin, manages to capture perfectly on screen. I did not feel forced or cajoled in any way into believing the story.
‐‐ Marco Beltrami

The thing that sucks is that there's so much false data because people are in mystery as to what Scientology is, so they just kind of make up stuff.
‐‐ Laura Prepon

The thing that surprised me and really puzzled me is that the job is really fun. Yahoo is a really fun place to work.
‐‐ Marissa Mayer

The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much.
‐‐ Chris Rock

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.
‐‐ Jeff Probst

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.
‐‐ David Frum

The thing that Tea Parties have to understand, you can't govern if you don't get elected.
‐‐ Kenneth Langone

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
‐‐ Sarah Orne Jewett

The thing that the Internet does is it allows labor to move freely across borders in the way that capital does but, traditionally, labor cannot. So the Internet frees workers to be based anywhere and work for employers anywhere.
‐‐ Leila Janah

The thing that they were more freaked out was that I had done a spread for Playboy years before, and as Playboy always does, they exploit the exploitation and re-release different pictures.
‐‐ Nina Blackwood

The thing that turned out to be interesting about CB radios was the ability to call out in the world with anonymity. You choose your handle. Race and class become non-signifiers.
‐‐ Rashid Johnson

The thing that ultimately pushed me more towards 'Aquaman' is I love the possibility of creating a whole new world. I've always wanted to do a world creation story and visually create this amazing, incredible, magical kingdom.
‐‐ James Wan

The thing that upsets me is the ubiquitous use of reward technology, which uses our evolutionary biology against us.
‐‐ Beeban Kidron

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg

The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended.
‐‐ Charles Vest

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock

The thing that we tell - that I tell - members is, 'Vote your district. Vote your conscience; just don't surprise us.'
‐‐ Kevin McCarthy

The thing that weighs the most on how your final artwork turns out is the amount of time you have and the speed at which you can move.
‐‐ Jim Lee

The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're moved by the fact that it's real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like 'Let It Be' or 'Long and Winding Road' or a song like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' or 'Roxanne,' any of those songs. They sound like people making music.
‐‐ Dave Grohl

The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

The thing that you're faulted on today is not that you are too tough, or not that you aren't careful. It's that you might have been too soft. People want that red meat now because you have to keep up with the mood and the mood today is harsh. It really is.
‐‐ Mark Russell

The thing that you think is imperfect about you is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else. I have a scar on my lip, and for years I hated it. But now its become my thing. It's like, without it, I'm not me. You can't be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections. I can't stress that enough.
‐‐ Terry Crews

The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.
‐‐ Luke Rhinehart

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
‐‐ John Lennon

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and then never, ever think about them again, except maybe once a quarter or so when you take a peek at your statements to make sure that you have not accidentally been buying the Fidelity Peace-in-the-Middle-East fund.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
‐‐ Miles Davis

The thing to keep in mind is that we're still in the very early days when it comes to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Saying there's a silence is a bit like if Columbus, looking to discover a new continent, only sailed 10 miles off the coast of Spain before turning back to say, 'Nothing out there!'
‐‐ Seth Shostak

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.
‐‐ Ezra Klein

The thing to remember about Phuket is it's very beach-oriented and relaxed. The trendiest beach is Koh Sirey, which is full of groovy places to have a cocktail and watch the sun go down.
‐‐ Tony Parsons

The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

The thing to strive for is to get paid to talk about yourself.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as much as they could, so they put me in a private school when I was super young.
‐‐ Big Sean

The thing we all know is that you can't take a day off... in anything. If you do, the next thing you know, it can all be taken away from you just like that.
‐‐ Chad Kelly

The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.
‐‐ Ang Lee

The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity.
‐‐ Nolan Bushnell

The thing we fear we bring to pass.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

The thing we found out was, when you get to a Super Bowl, both teams are treated the same, talked about in glowing terms. But when the game is over, only the team that won matters.
‐‐ Don Shula

The thing we have to be careful of is that the Internet is a global communications medium, and if one country tips the balance in regulating its use or regulating what companies or individuals do on the web, it could have an economic impact that might be unintended, quite frankly, by the regulations themselves.
‐‐ John W. Thompson

The thing we learned the most with the Xbox is the Xbox Live experience.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.
‐‐ Quentin Bryce

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.
‐‐ Mel Gibson

The thing we should all be looking for are people who want to make a difference. I'm a big believer in the Silicon Valley religion of the power of markets. But I also believe in our obligation to give back, and to give back in the way we do business, to create more value than we capture for ourselves.
‐‐ Tim O'Reilly