Thing Quotes

36662 Thing quotes by 13492 unique authors

I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there isn't… — Gertrude B. Elion
I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I… — George Washington Carver
If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because… — Charles Kettering
Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind… — Romola Garai
This is a dirty business, that is why I go out and play with my heart. I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid… — Terrell Owens
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks,… — Richard P. Feynman
Now you shall consider My love in the Blessed Sacrament. Here, I am entirely yours, soul, body and divinity, as your Bridegroom. You know what… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and,… — Laurence Sterne
People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as… — Samuel Johnson
The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that… — Eudora Welty
One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages… — Lawrence Block
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you… — Heraclitus
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. — Gerald Brenan
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. — Irving Layton
The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. — Mike Tyson
The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do. — Richard DeVos
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth… — John Stuart Mill
I think the single biggest thing that money gave me-and obviously I came from a place where I was a single mother and it really… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I would be a liar if I said I don't care [about my appearance]; yes, I care. I found it very difficult, when I first… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I definitely know that-that love is the most powerful thing of all and I remember thinking that-God, I'm about to make myself cry but, I… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one. — Alexander Pope
It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's… — Ayn Rand
The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written… — Abraham Lincoln

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