Thing Quotes
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To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing – they're all just language.
Nate Lowman
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The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.
Sarah Addison Allen
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'American Idol' is a juggernaut... Because of my 'American Idol' win, I am able to do the thing that I love most, which is to be an entertainer.
Taylor Hicks
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The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.
Oscar Wilde
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
Rachel Bilson
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If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.
Oscar Wilde
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
Thomas Hardy
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The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.
Takeshi Kitano
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It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
Soren Kierkegaard
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When it comes to investing, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all portfolio.
Barry Ritholtz
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Throughout the day, my phone will variously chirp, burp and growl – it's like living with a velociraptor. The last time I went to try to shut it off, the thing bit me.
W. Bruce Cameron
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It is one thing to be against unilateralism and against nonhumanitarian interventionism - but it is quite another thing to be against humanitarian interventionism.
Kai Bird
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There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.
Dan Barber
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I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
Patsy Cline
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Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing.
W. G. Sebald
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Wearing the right thing, at the right moment, could actually change your life.
Penelope Tree
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Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.
Kingsley Amis
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You can never loose a thing If it belongs to you.
Abbey Lincoln
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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.
Oscar Wilde
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The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together.
Jhumpa Lahiri