All Quotes

Things explain each other, not themselves.
‐‐ George Oppen

Things felt pretty crazy on earth in 1969, but the cosmos was friendly. Astronauts had round-trip tickets; they got home.
‐‐ David Ignatius

Things forbidden have a secret charm.
‐‐ Tacitus

Things from real life are the things that get people laughing.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
‐‐ Sophocles

Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends.
‐‐ Lei Jun

Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
‐‐ Tatum O'Neal

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.
‐‐ James L. Brooks

Things go in cycles. It's like fashion, like flares go out then skinny jeans come in, people want something fresh. It's the strongest ever urban scene at the moment and I hope it can progress and keep getting stronger and be the base for something larger.
‐‐ Katy B

Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.
‐‐ John Denver

Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it.
‐‐ Tori Amos

Things go wrong for me all the time with technology. I'm not familiar enough with it, and I'm too old-school a brain to be able to figure it out. I'm dumb. Anything that I have to attack with my thumbs, for any period of time, makes me feel stupid. So, I try to avoid it, as much as possible, to protect my thumbs.
‐‐ Johnny Depp

Things got so bad that when I went shopping for a house, some people would refuse to open the door if they saw it was me standing there. And drunks would always want to challenge me.
‐‐ Edward G. Robinson

Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.
‐‐ Manti Te'o

Things happen every day. You can't spend your whole life trying to guard against something happening. If you do that, in my opinion, you've wasted your life.
‐‐ Tony Stewart

Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.
‐‐ Idina Menzel

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.
‐‐ Mitch McConnell

Things happen to all of us. The writer's job is to get you interested.
‐‐ Max Apple

Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.
‐‐ Eric Stoltz

Things happen to us and reaction is sometimes tough to measure.
‐‐ Richard Schiff

Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.
‐‐ Clayton M. Christensen

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.
‐‐ Rahm Emanuel

Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.
‐‐ Fareed Zakaria

Things have a way of being richer in the end, a product better made, for the circuitous route we take to include all the elements that are necessary for a job well done.
‐‐ David Whyte

Things have a way of moving to the left, and then they move back to the right before somebody finds themselves in the center. That seems to be the nature of the creative world. It's not stagnant. I don't get upset about it.
‐‐ Phylicia Rashad

Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
‐‐ Vicki Lawrence

Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.
‐‐ Lew Wasserman

Things have changed a lot since the earth was cooling and I was a teenage girl, but the basics of teenage bedrooms have remained the same. Every girl wants a place that they are proud to call their own and where they can express their own individuality.
‐‐ Candice Olson

Things have changed. Now it's not the outward appearance, it's the inward man that I'm trying to change. And that's the message I bring to the people.
‐‐ Vanity

Things have changed so much. People walked away from a simple life we had in the '20s and '30s, and I am glad that I am able to touch that period in our lives with the shows that I do and with the music that I do.
‐‐ Andy Griffith

Things have changed so much, with Facebook and Twitter. Everyone is so much more accessible these days: no British athlete has ever experienced what we are experiencing now. It's such a unique situation with the home Olympics.
‐‐ Jessica Ennis

Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.
‐‐ Trey Anastasio

Things have got to add up to 100 points. The script is part of it, the character is part of it, the people I'm working with is the third part of it - and any combination of the three has got to add up to 100 points.
‐‐ Alan Arkin

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.
‐‐ Alfred Whitney Griswold

Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.
‐‐ Robert M. Gates

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently looking for work. It has been a nice year-long vacation nonetheless.
‐‐ Rob Mariano

Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense - capturing the essence of the situation.
‐‐ Michael Foreman

Things have to sell, of course, but if I don't want to put bags on the runway, we don't put bags on the runway. I have complete creative control.
‐‐ Phoebe Philo

Things haven't changed since I was a young kid. I just wanted to be the fastest guy I could be, and I am still chasing that dream to this day.
‐‐ Shani Davis

Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it.
‐‐ J. K. Simmons

Things I say are sometimes silly.
‐‐ Halston Sage

Things I say have value and I would love for you to value them, however you get it.
‐‐ Lil Wayne

Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
‐‐ Adam McKay

Things I've been talking about for a long time as systemic problems, the American public has also begun to see something needs to be done down here.
‐‐ Scott Garrett

Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s.
‐‐ Harvey Pekar

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

Things kind of happen organically with me.
‐‐ Jules Shear