Thing Quotes

People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.
Ellen DeGeneres

Love, Gossip, Industry

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
Samuel Gompers

Time, Women, Men

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Strength, Lies, Criticism

The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
Tennessee Williams

Future, Important, Possible

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
Moliere

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
Meister Eckhart

True, Write, Hand

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
George Santayana

Deep, Down, Blood

The big thing is that you know what you want.
Earl Nightingale

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
John D. Rockefeller

Coming, Pleasure, Dividends

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
John D. Rockefeller

Character, Important, Young

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
Gertrude Stein

There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.
Piper Perabo

Love, Mind, Tough

I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.
Michael J. Fox

Life, Good, God

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
Harold Pinter

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.
Shaun White

Best, Happy, Game

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
Joseph Wood Krutch

Time, Lonely, Snow

Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.
Christopher Meloni

Good, Diet, Hate

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
Meryl Streep

Mother, Everyone, Wants

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.
Michael Gove

Time, Teacher, Important

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant

Good, History, Nothing

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
Alfred Adler

Talent, Pressure

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
Brad Pitt

Success, Away, Wrong

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
Gertrude Stein

Bad, Luck, Deepest

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.
Sophocles

Give, Child, Hating

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
Sophocles

Another, Speech

I'm totally not against plastic surgery. I've tried Botox before. That's the only thing that I've done.
Kim Kardashian

Done, Before, Against

I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.
Ellen DeGeneres

Women, Hard, Trying

The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique.
Ellen DeGeneres

Successful, Someone, Try

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
Desiderius Erasmus

Success, Fun, Woman

I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Good, Dating, Girl

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