Things Quotes
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But voice is a certain sound of that which is animated; for nothing inanimate emits a voice; but they are said to emit a voice from similitude, as a pipe, and a lyre, and such other inanimate things, have extension, modulation, and dialect; for thus it appears, because voice, also, has these.
Aristotle
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To little men, gods send little things.
Callimachus
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I think this is very strange -
All things are strange which are worth knowing (...).
Catherynne M. Valente
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I just wondered how things were put together.
Claude Shannon
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Only in a novel are all things given full play.
D. H. Lawrence
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Maybe by making people feel uncomfortable, I tap into that uncanny quality that is a part of the scariest, weirdest things that you remember happening to you when you were a kid.
Ariel Pink
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I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
Billy Joel
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I still don't understand why when you put a piece of paper in a tray with solution in it, it comes up. It's still, in a sense, magic to me. It's a funny thing, you know. I've got two kids, and when they were very young, they used to come in the darkroom and I thought they'd be astounded by that. Nothing. When they got a little older, then they got astounded by it.
Garry Winogrand
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Two things to remember in life: take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take are of your words when you are with people.
Lorde
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The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.
Yahoo Serious
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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.
Oscar Wilde
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I like darker, mysterious scents and things that reflect my personality.
Kat Graham
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The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country.
Mary Pipher
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I can't really speak for the guys, but for me, I think I want a build a longer-term career and I feel like we've been really fortunate to have some big success with a few things, but I want smaller success with more things.
Isaac Slade
The Fray
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God is the efficient cause not only of the existence of things, but also of their essence.
Corr. Individual things are nothing but modifications of the attributes of God, or modes by which the attributes of God are expressed in a fixed and definite manner.
Baruch Spinoza
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You’re supposed to get more conservative in your tastes as you get older, but I tend to go the other way. I listen to stuff that’s two steps away from white noise. But I must admit that I’ve been so busy with Napalm and personal things in recent years that I’ve not dug down into what’s going on. I’m a little disconnected at the minute but it’s not through choice, it’s through circumstance. Generally speaking, anything that’s nasty, horrible and confrontational is my bag.
Barney Greenway
Benediction
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He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
Epictetus
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We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Catherine McAuley
