Thing Quotes - page 22

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit - a reputation, character. (John D. Rockefeller)
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. View quote
Theophrastus
As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise. View quote
Ezra Pound
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. View quote
Bruce Lee
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes. View quote
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers? View quote
Gore Vidal
Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of. View quote
Robert Frost
It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world - we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet. View quote
Henry James
I know I live a charmed, beautiful life and nobody wants to hear a celebrity whine. The last thing I want to do is complain; I love what I do and I know every job comes with a downside. (Jennifer Garner)
Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful. View quote
Amy Lee
Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive. View quote
Walker Percy
The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened. View quote
Lucian
Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter. View quote
David Gilmour
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one. View quote
John Ruskin
What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do. View quote
John Ruskin
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. View quote
John Ruskin
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen. View quote
Dolly Parton
Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment. (Norman Mailer)
The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical. View quote
Norman Mailer
The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination. View quote
Norman Mailer
I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value. View quote
Steve Ballmer
I try to keep the martial arts up. It's a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind. View quote
Dolph Lundgren