Thing Quotes - page 9

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. (Irving Layton)
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. View quote
Robert Frost
The United States brags about its political system, but the [American] President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. View quote
Deng Xiaoping
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own. View quote
Henry James
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! View quote
T. E. Lawrence
The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language. View quote
Donald Knuth
The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative. View quote
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. View quote
John Ruskin
God save us all from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half. View quote
Paddy Chayefsky
Marrying into money was not a good thing for me. (Anna Nicole Smith)
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. View quote
John Cage
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that. View quote
Norman Mailer
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. View quote
William Morris
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel. View quote
John Glenn
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. View quote
Ramakrishna
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen. View quote
Dashiell Hammett
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love. View quote
Henry Miller
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. View quote
Henry Miller
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. (Gertrude Stein)
The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing. View quote
Gertrude Stein
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting. View quote
Gertrude Stein
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. View quote
Gertrude Stein
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son. View quote
Gertrude Stein