All Quotes

The things that got me through grade school are helping me out later in life. It's like, I show up on time. If you buy a ticket to one of my shows, I'll show up. I'll be there. And if it says 10:00, I'll be on stage at 10:00.
‐‐ Chris Isaak

The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
‐‐ Johnny Cash

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
‐‐ Augusto Roa Bastos

The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
‐‐ Paolo Bacigalupi

The things that have taken place over my career have been unbelievable. I have a lot of great moments to cherish.
‐‐ Steve Largent

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.
‐‐ Robert Wyatt

The things that I have done that haven't been as successful have been things that have been largely out of the public view, which is great. It's terrible, when you're a theater writer, to have a big flop publicly.
‐‐ Robert Lopez

The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those - those are growing pains. Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I'm not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.
‐‐ Nas

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.
‐‐ Jamie Wyeth

The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'.
‐‐ Jenny Agutter

The things that I've enjoyed most are not really science fiction. They are not much fun to make because there are so many toys involved. They are fun for directors who like toys, like Ridley Scott, but they are not a lot of fun to make. A lot of hanging around, changing this and that.
‐‐ John Hurt

The things that I've learned is, try to make all the mistakes with your own money and on a small level so that when you are responsible for a partner's money or assets, you've learned, and you don't make bigger mistakes.
‐‐ Daymond John

The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.
‐‐ Gus Van Sant

The things that inspire people to think are what keeps a film alive.
‐‐ Ben Wheatley

The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.
‐‐ Evan Williams

The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny as he's ever been, and he's still angry. And that makes me feel good, because I feel like if I stick around long enough, I'll still be able to work.
‐‐ Denis Leary

The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I'm doing good.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

The things that make me happy most are my family and working.
‐‐ Damon Albarn

The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn't do it for me either. You just try to be funny.
‐‐ Greg Giraldo

The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.
‐‐ Susannah York

The things that motivated me at 21 don't suffice. Which is scary but really liberating in a way. It's taken me a long time to feel like, instead of being invited to the party with a bunch of people I don't know, that I actually deserve to be here.
‐‐ Chris Pine

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
‐‐ Billie Joe Armstrong

The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in.
‐‐ Hayley Atwell

The things that stand out are often the oddities.
‐‐ Pierre Salinger

The things that we love tell us what we are.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
‐‐ Theodore Roosevelt

The things that you saw earlier in your life generally have more power than the things you saw last week.
‐‐ Mike Nichols

The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
‐‐ Cheryl Hines

'The Things They Carried' is labeled right inside the book as a work of fiction, but I did set out when I wrote the book to make it feel real... I use my own name, and I dedicated the book to characters in the book to give it the form of a war memoir.
‐‐ Tim O'Brien

The things we always disengage with are one-sided stories or one-sided characters. They're very boring. When you feel like you're being hit over the head, you disengage.
‐‐ John Krasinski

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.
‐‐ Ellen Goodman

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
‐‐ Luc de Clapiers

The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life, they have many lives, and in each life they can mean different things. Which means that, while we all have one biography, they have many.
‐‐ Neil MacGregor

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
‐‐ Baltasar Gracian

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
‐‐ Josephine Baker

The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest.
‐‐ Bob Hawke

The things women find rewarding about work are, by and large, the same things that men find rewarding and include both the inherent nature of the work and the social relationships.
‐‐ Grace Baruch

The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

The things you encounter in your formative years always stay with you.
‐‐ Jane Goldman

The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.
‐‐ Jewel

The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools should teach the basics of cookery, first aid, how to look after your money and how to speak foreign languages. Useful things.
‐‐ Jane Asher

The things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking.
‐‐ Megan Smith

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
‐‐ Richard Adams

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
‐‐ Agnes Repplier

The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
‐‐ Ram Dass

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.
‐‐ Sol LeWitt

The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right to change them, changes in our system would be careful and deliberate.
‐‐ Stockwell Day

The thinner a newspaper or magazine is - due to reduced revenue from advertising dollars - the less editorial content because of the standard ad-to-editorial ratio, and the less money there is to support investigative journalism.
‐‐ Lynda Resnick

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
‐‐ Josh Billings