Thing Quotes

36662 Thing quotes by 13492 unique authors

Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The… — Edward Abbey
Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite? — Edward Abbey
I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving. — Edward Abbey
One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill. — Edward Abbey
It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog. — Edward Abbey
The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself.… — Edward Abbey
You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, there are many more suicide notes than there… — Martin Amis
Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to… — Will Self
It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm; but bantering is… — Kazuo Ishiguro
And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide… — Douglas Adams
To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world! — Charles Dickens
Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it? — Charles Dickens
A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. — Edmund Burke
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of… — Edmund Burke
Contempt is not a thing to be despised. — Edmund Burke
I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in… — Thomas Jefferson
It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is… — Thomas Jefferson
The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless. — Thomas Jefferson
I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of… — Thomas Jefferson
You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you… — George Washington
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to… — Thomas Paine
I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any… — Thomas Paine
The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in… — Thomas Paine
For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's-she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when… — Richard Avedon
I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start with your friends… — Annie Leibovitz

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