Thing Quotes - page 10

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape. (Thom Yorke)
A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence. View quote
Marvin Bower
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and youre driving at another. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. View quote
Steve Jobs
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets. View quote
Steve Jobs
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. View quote
Steve Jobs
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. View quote
Joseph Addison
What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America. (William Saroyan)
A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing. View quote
Bill Shankly
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. View quote
Robert E. Howard
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery or simple bad luck. View quote
Joseph Heller
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth. Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar. View quote
J. Edgar Hoover
Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing. View quote
Ray Liotta
I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet. View quote
George Foreman
Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo. View quote
Arthur Eddington
Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not the color, but to accept God's final decision on where your lips end. View quote
Jerry Seinfeld
There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family." View quote
Jerry Seinfeld
The only goal is in the process. The process is the thing...with little flashes of light here and there. Those are the gigs, those are the live shows. But it's the life in between-that's all I got. (Jeff Buckley)
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. View quote
Colette
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. View quote
Colette
Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters. View quote
Guillermo del Toro
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve. View quote
Edward Albee