Thing Quotes
You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
Veronica RothVeronica Roth Is it fair your life burns so short and bright? Death had asked. “No such thing as fair,” Frank told himself. “If I’m going to burn, it might as well be bright.
Rick RiordanRick Riordan You can’t control things by being nervous.
Tina FeyTina Fey You will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.
Alan Loy McGinnisAlan Loy McGinnis Some mistakes… Just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.
Jojo MoyesJojo Moyes Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica JongErica Jong She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.
Rollo MayRollo May Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
Bram StokerBram Stoker Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
William CowperWilliam Cowper The last thing my kids ever did to earn money was lose their baby teeth.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.
Mr. TMr. T If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp