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Thing Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.
- I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.
- What you eat is the most political thing you do every day
- If there's one thing I can't stand it's a hero without a cause. People like that just make trouble so that they can solve it.
- To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
- Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.
- Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.
- It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.
- There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies
- When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No one can legislate…
- Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to…
- Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As…
- Don't you think it's strange that life, described as so rich and full, a camel-trail of adventure, should shrink to this coin-sized world? A head…
- You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long…
- I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put your hand in…
- You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long…
- If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the…
- The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist.…
- Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
- There's no such thing as effortless beauty - you should know that. There's no effort which is not beautiful - lifting a heavy stone or…
- I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in…
- Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.
- I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must…
- Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life, the things I…
- One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but thats quite hard to say casually, at the beginning of a…
More Thing Quotes
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- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong