All Quotes

The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
‐‐ Rafael Nadal

The thing which attracted me to Google and to the Internet in general is that it's a great equalizer. I've always been struck by the fact that Google search worked the same, as long as you had access to a computer with connectivity, if you're a rural kid anywhere or a professor at Stanford or Harvard.
‐‐ Sundar Pichai

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.
‐‐ Edward Irving

The thing with 'Alphas' is that, even though it's sci-fi, I run into lots of people that have watched the show for various reasons. They're like, 'I had no expectation, and I'm totally blown away and fascinated.'
‐‐ Azita Ghanizada

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.
‐‐ Alessandro Nivola

The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.
‐‐ Ted Shackelford

The thing with Bill Shatner is he brings something unique to everything he does. He's not the obvious choice for anything, but he always brings something special to it.
‐‐ Justin Halpern

The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

The thing with cancer is that it's usually the chemo rather than the disease itself that makes the patient feel so ill, particularly at the start.
‐‐ Amy Hoggart

The thing with cancer is that you want to get it as early as you can.
‐‐ Michael Douglas

The thing with children is they're a bit like baking a fruitcake: you throw all the ingredients in but you never know how they're going to turn out.
‐‐ Len Goodman

The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography.
‐‐ Christopher Nolan

The thing with darts players is they have always appeared available. They don't have to live like monks. I've only ever met one dry player in 35 years.
‐‐ Sid Waddell

The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.
‐‐ Jarvis Cocker

The thing with drama is you're allowed to invent people who are maybe slightly better than real people.
‐‐ Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

The thing with fashion is that when I see something that I like, I just go with it. I don't really go towards one designer or the other. It's just what I like. It could be expensive, it could be cheap. If it fits me, and it's my style, I'll wear it.
‐‐ Stephanie Sigman

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.
‐‐ Alan Cumming

The thing with film is that it's so wide-reaching compared to comedy. When I release my comedy special, half a million people will see it. If I release a movie, five to ten million people will see it.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

The thing with focus is that it's not this thing you aspire to, like, 'Oh, on Monday I'm going to be focused.' It's every single minute: 'Why are we talking about this when we're supposed to be talking about this?'
‐‐ Jonathan Ive

The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.
‐‐ Dweezil Zappa

The thing with gymnastics is people don't always know the events. So they'll ask me about the rings, and I'll have to say, 'Women don't do that.' Or they'll use the wrong words, like horse instead of vault. They get confused.
‐‐ McKayla Maroney

The thing with Joy Division's music is that each member was playing like a separate line. We hardly ever played together; we all played separately. But when you put it together, it was like the ingredients in a cake.
‐‐ Peter Hook

The thing with Kerry is that all of this is a natural progression, her troubles. It's a cycle.
‐‐ Laura Innes

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.
‐‐ Linus Torvalds

The thing with making your art your business is: It's a business. You can't sit around waiting for the muse, especially when you run a show, and you're in production, and an outline is due, a script is due, and a reshoot is due. No. You look at the calendar, and you go, 'OK. I can write from 4 to 6.' So you write.
‐‐ Noah Hawley

The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.
‐‐ Mark E. Smith

The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.
‐‐ Mark E. Smith

The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
‐‐ D'Angelo

The thing with me is, I'm both untidy and I hate mess. But I'm not untidy in communal spaces, like living rooms. My bedroom is havoc.
‐‐ Alison Moyet

The thing with me is if I feel disrespected I won't hesitate to fight. But it takes a lot to make me feel disrespected.
‐‐ ASAP Rocky

The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.
‐‐ Samantha Morton

The thing with 'Mortal Kombat' is we really deal with that: What is the right thing to do? When somebody does something bad, do you, then, in your mind, rectify the situation by doing something bad to them?
‐‐ Mark Dacascos

The thing with movies is, because you have so little time, I always feel like there are more things we could've done with the character. If we'd done a sequel to 'The Thomas Crown Affair,' what would that have been like? But for the most part, you try not to think of that, because it's just going to break your heart.
‐‐ Denis Leary

The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.
‐‐ Andrew Bogut

The thing with One Direction songs is that you can probably break them all down to an acoustic guitar and vocal.
‐‐ Jamie Lawson

The thing with 'Peter Pan' is it's been done so well so many times.
‐‐ Edward Kitsis

The thing with physical preparation is I have tons of friends who train at a really high level and who can give me advice. But with mental training, I don't really know anybody who has a much better mind for climbing, I guess, so I don't really know where I would go. It's not really a limiting factor for me.
‐‐ Alex Honnold

The thing with 'Pippin' is not to over think it too much. If you try and overthink or plan and over-analyze - it's like with any role really, but this one specifically - you can run into sogging wet newspaper. It's just too exciting to do that. It's nice to be bounced around and surprised at almost every line that comes out of your mouth.
‐‐ Matthew James Thomas

The thing with playing live is, most of the audience is in their 20s and 30s. If you're older than that, you don't tend to go out to shows anymore. So it's good if you can attract a younger audience because they've got the energy to get up off the sofa and go out.
‐‐ Colin Hay

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.
‐‐ Charles de Lint

The thing with professional boxing is you have to have the right promoter and the right fights. It is a cut-throat business.
‐‐ Katie Taylor

The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and it's just, how inconvenient that that's there. It takes up so much room, and it's so oppressive.
‐‐ John Lurie

The thing with stand-up is, I really enjoyed it, but I kind of loathed it as well. It makes me feel physically sick.
‐‐ Peter Serafinowicz

The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.
‐‐ Natalie Martinez

The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

The thing with 'The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo' is that is it's like an Agatha Christie plot, and an investigating journalist is also a classic character.
‐‐ Niels Arden Oplev

The thing with the piano is, the piano is like percussion almost - well, it is. You have to... not beat on it, but there is more work involved than a Hammond. With a Hammond, you just lay your hands on the keys, man, and you're gone.
‐‐ Gregg Allman

The thing with 'The West Wing' is that the fantasy was legitimately better than the reality - these were smarter, better people than their real-life counterparts, working together at a better White House than the one we had.
‐‐ Alex Pareene

The thing with TV and filming is the timing is all faked anyway. You do it so many times, from so many different angles. You never really do it all in one go anyway, so they just fix it all in the edit.
‐‐ Simon Bird

The thing with videogame characters is that they tend to be really undercooked, and people don't take the time to really flesh them out. They don't treat them with the respect that a writer writing characters in any other medium would treat their character.
‐‐ Rhianna Pratchett