Thing Quotes
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Billy Paul's song is hard to beat. I made it my own with a couple of little things, but I wasn't really going to fool with his thing. I ain't crazy.
Lamont Dozier
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A house, a carriage, a balloon, a ship, a racing stallionocerosupine! Is that a thing? It sounds like it ought to be, so let’s say it is!
Catherynne M. Valente
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The thing is when you're... well-enough known, you get asked to speak places, and they don't really think about whether or not you're qualified. They just want somebody that will be a drawing card for the audience. So it's up to you to decide whether or not it's foolish to get up and speak to these people.
Alan Alda
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One thing the blues ain't, is funny.
Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
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The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.
Alan Cumming
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The structural unity of the parts is such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference is not an organic part of the whole.
Aristotle
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Knowing that your sense of fashion and the culture it's connected to is valid really makes it a stronger thing for you.
Winston Duke
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The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar taste and aspirations and like music as much as you do.
Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones
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I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
Maya Angelou
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I ain't the greatest thing since sliced bread, but I've dedicated my life to music since I was 7 and my dad bought me a guitar and the 'Meet the Beatles' album.
Steve Lukather Toto
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I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.
Elijah Wood
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A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
Marilyn Monroe
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.
Mikhail Lermontov
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The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.
Johnny Depp
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This endeavour to do a thing or leave it undone, solely in order to please men, we call ambition, especially when we so eagerly endeavour to please the vulgar, that we do or omit certain things to our own or another's hurt : in other cases it is generally called kindliness.
Baruch Spinoza
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One thing that's certain about going outdoors: When you come back inside, you'll be scratching.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It is not necessary to ask whether soul and body are one, just as it is not necessary to ask whether the wax and its shape are one, nor generally whether the matter of each thing and that of which it is the matter are one. For even if one and being are spoken of in several ways, what is properly so spoken of is the actuality.
Aristotle
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The worst thing a good girl could do to you is break your heart.
ASAP Rocky
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The dumbest thing is when fans get so nervous that they treat you like shit. I'm so fascinated by it. I'll be like.
Tyson Jay Ritter The All-American Rejects
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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
Oscar Wilde
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I was never that interested in business, to be honest. I do the minimal amount of business as possible because I'm not actually interested in it as a thing. But some people are interested in it, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
John Maynard Keynes
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The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do.
Stevie Wonder
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I only need to know one thing. Am I going to need the flamethrower?
Rachel Caine