Thing Quotes - page 91

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. (Jonathan Swift)
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it. View quote
Boris Pasternak
People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like, 'I'm Method, I'm gonna go live in the house, you know, I totally get it, I've done it, I've been there', but one thing I know is it kills spontaneity. View quote
Mark Ruffalo
One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer. View quote
Wole Soyinka
Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear. View quote
Henryk Sienkiewicz
For ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty. View quote
Plutarch
Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people,... he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?" View quote
Plutarch
Xenophanes said, "I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing." View quote
Plutarch
The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth. View quote
Carl Jung
Saying is one thing and doing is another. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
God might grant us riches, honours, life, and even health, to our own hurt; for every thing that is pleasing to us is not always good for us. If he sends us death, or an increase of sickness, instead of a cure, Vvrga tua et baculus, tuus ipsa me consolata sunt. "Thy rod and thy staff have comforted me," he does it by the rule of his providence, which better and more certainly discerns what is proper for us than we can do; and we ought to take it in good part, as coming from a wise and most friendly hand. (Michel de Montaigne)
Today there seems to be only one absolute thing: relativism. View quote
Joseph Goebbels
The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films. View quote
Paul Newman
At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in. View quote
Rosa Parks
A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that." View quote
Douglas Adams
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat. View quote
Douglas Adams
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. View quote
Douglas Adams
One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy. View quote
Denzel Washington
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it. View quote
Henri Bergson
Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing. View quote
Hugo Weaving
I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries. (Mel Gibson)
When I first moved to LA, no one could understand a thing I said, you would think I was speaking another language. Every time I would order something at Starbucks, they would go, 'Huh? What did you say?' My accent was an issue and my low voice was as well. They thought I should be more girlie. But that's who I am. View quote
Miley Cyrus
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain. View quote
Anatole France
People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing. View quote
James Cameron (director)
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. View quote
Audrey Hepburn