Thing Quotes

36662 Thing quotes by 13492 unique authors

[Iraqis] know we own their country...It's a good thing, especially when there's a lot of oil out there we need. — William R. Looney III
It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to… — Andrew Shue
Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world. — Charlie Munger
One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything be verified absolutely.… — Carlos Castaneda
His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive… — Tom Hooper
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read… — Charles Caleb Colton
As the opportunity grows for unlimited growth and progress, the chances of failure increase. There is no such thing as a program that will provide… — Dean L. Larsen
Trying to tell you I'm the one, come and holla at me before I'm on the next thing, YMCMB. — Drake
Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the… — Unknown Author
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it… — Mordecai Richler
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information… — David Foster Wallace
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a… — David Foster Wallace
Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to… — Iain Banks
Good is always a good thing. — Drake
When I was 8, I was reading a book in which it was snowing. When I looked outside, I expected there to be snow on… — Candace Bushnell
Don't try to guess what sort of thing editors want to publish or what you think the country is in a mood to read. Editors… — William Zinsser
You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in… — Elizabeth Berg
For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical… — Bill Bryson
Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind. — Charles Capps
I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss… — Lewis Carroll
I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation. — Raymond Carver
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself,… — William Faulkner
It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. — Gustave Flaubert
On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion of… — John Fowles

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