Thing Quotes - page 12

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. (Tallulah Bankhead)
But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself. View quote
Edie Brickell
...in serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing. View quote
Steve Reich
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly ... very slowly. View quote
Gypsy Rose Lee
Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember. View quote
David Mamet
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. View quote
Anne Lamott
I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done. View quote
Jeff Koons
The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way. View quote
Elvis Presley
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. View quote
Oscar Wilde
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. (Oscar Wilde)
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. View quote
Oscar Wilde
It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing. View quote
Oscar Wilde
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing. View quote
Karl Rove
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
The poem... is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see - it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson. (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true. View quote
Arnold Bennett
Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away. View quote
Anthony Trollope
The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps. View quote
Douglas Hofstadter