Thing Quotes

People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.

The burden of poverty isn’t just that you don’t always have the things you need, it’s the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you’d do anything to lift that burden.

Money and women. They’re two of the strongest things in the world.

I’m not interested in how things were, or how we ended up where we are now.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like livin’ in jail.