Quotes about thing
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“There's something about a roof isn't there? It makes you feel like it doesn't matter what's going on below. All of those things that get in the way of your dreams - you're above them. Anything is possible.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Gray Wolf Throne

Dreams, Way, Feeling

“If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: It's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

“Ah,” said Magnus. “Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Love, Beauty

“People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 13

People

“Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.”

Tom Robbins (1932) American writer

Death

“We… believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.”

Irving Stone (1903–1989) American writer

Source: The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo

Art

“What was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me… no competition… best thing that ever happened to you…”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Food

“Ready or not, here I come
I'm so tired of this dumb game of hide and seek
Olly olly oxen free
Show yourself, you're scaring me
Come out, come out, where ever you are
You've taken this thing way too far”

Sonya Sones book Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy

Source: Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy

Way, Game

“There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.”

Clive Barker (1952) author, film director and visual artist

Source: Books of Blood: Volume Two

World

“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.”

John Burroughs (1837–1921) American naturalist and essayist

New Year

“the juniors were acting different because they are now the seniors. They even had T-shirts made. I don't know who plans these things.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.”

Jhumpa Lahiri book Unaccustomed Earth

Source: Unaccustomed Earth

Love, Personality

“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”

Hilary Mantel book Wolf Hall

Source: Wolf Hall

“I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.”

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) American artist

Way, Idea, Nature, Thinking

“The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied.”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

Sense, Universe, Chance

“It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not less. Which was maybe not a good thing.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Guy

“that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.”

Jean Rhys book Good Morning, Midnight

Source: Good Morning, Midnight

People, Dreams

“He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good.”

Benjamin Hoff book The Tao of Pooh

Source: The Tao of Pooh

Life, Happiness, Way, Nature

“If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.”

Lawrence Block (1938) American writer

Source: Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print

Lie, Feeling, Waiting

“We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.”

Malcolm Gladwell book Blink

Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Problem

“Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Feeling, Strong, Winter, Sun

“That was the worst thing about having a relationship with someone, even a pretend relationship. You opened up, let someone in, and when it was over, they had all the ammunition they needed to completely destroy you.”

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the only thing.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

Happiness, Personality

“There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Source: Jayber Crow

Heart

“Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.”

Kakuzo Okakura (1862–1913) Japanese scholar, author of The Book of Tea

Feeling

“Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Source: Autobiographical Notes

“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

Stephen King book Different Seasons

Sometimes quoted as "Nothing good ever dies."
Different Seasons (1982), Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Source: The Shawshank Redemption

Hope, Hope

“If I'm not the one thing you can't stand to lose,
If I'm not that arrow to the heart of you,
If you don't get drunk on my kiss,
If you think you can do better than this then I guess we're done.
Let's not drag this on,
Consider me gone…”

Reba McEntire (1955) American country music artist and actress

Kiss, Thinking, Heart

“I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling anyone what's wrong, slowly simmering until you burst kind of thing.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“What are you, in love with her?" Travis says. "You're staring like an idiot."
The weird thing is, I think I am.”

Alex Flinn (1966) American children's writer

Source: A Kiss in Time

Love, Thinking

“Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her just when she needed the cold.”

Janet Fitch (1955) American writer

Source: Paint it Black

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

Night

“I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 2: Sixteen Steps

“Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Crimson Crown

People, Hope, Fools

“His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.”

Irvine Welsh (1958) Scottish novelist

Soul, Dance

“He has many things I haven’t got,” said Jace. “Like nearsightedness, bad posture, and an appalling lack of coordination.”
-Jace about Simon, pg. 331-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

“With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black cat. He said that there were only black cat chaped holes in the universe.”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

World, Cats, Universe

“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Love

“It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.”

Tim Winton (1960) Australian writer

Love, Life, Friendship, Art

“It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.”

Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist

Failure, Success

“If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

People, Smile

“Oh, Simon, Simon, Simon,” said Jace. “You may not remember, but that’s kind of our thing.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Whitechapel Fiend

“Try to remember the moment when all the stupid innocent things you thought about life and love, all the things you thought mattered, all the things you though were true… try to remember when they all turned out to be lies. —Kyle”

Chad Kultgen (1976) American writer

Source: The Lie

Love, Life, Stupidity

“Talent Katerina is a dangerous thing”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

“The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Forgetting, Sad, Missing You

“When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I’d like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response in living things, let alone inanimate objects.”

Kelley Armstrong book Stolen

Source: Stolen

Thinking

“And I'm sure than in Poland, or somewhere, it is considered cool to drive a Porsche and wear necklaces and black silk, but at least back in Brooklyn if you did those things you were either a drug dealer or from New Jersey.”

Meg Cabot book Ninth Key

Source: Ninth Key

“You and I are meant to be. It's the only thing I'm absolutely sure of. And while I have no idea what to expect, I promise I'll do whatever it takes to find my way back.”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Source: Everlasting

Way, Idea

“No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

World, Understanding, Time, Past

“One of my favorite things about hanging out with the monsters is the healing. Straight humans seemed to get killed on me a lot. Monsters survived. Let's hear it for the monsters.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

“Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.”

Elin Hilderbrand (1969) American writer

Source: A Summer Affair

Fear

“Don't talk. Kill it."
That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.”

Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer

Source: Kill the Dead

“You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things”

Ann Brashares book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

Pain

“Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.”

Michel Faber book The Book of Strange New Things

Source: The Book of Strange New Things

Thinking

“Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.”

Shane Claiborne (1975) American activist

Variant: Most good things have already been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

Time

“I like the rain before it falls. of course there is no such thing, she said. That's why it's my favorite. Something can still make you happy, can't it, even if it isn't real.”

Jonathan Coe book The Rain Before It Falls

Source: The Rain Before It Falls

Happiness

“For some things there are no wrong seasons. Which is what I dream of for me.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: A Thousand Mornings

Dreams, Season

“The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

Truth

“Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Personality

“If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.”

John Irving (1942) American novelist and screenwriter

Feeling

“It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.”

Philippa Gregory book The Boleyn Inheritance

Source: The Boleyn Inheritance

Freedom

“Different time, different place,” I said. “Things can change. People can change.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

People, Change, Time

“Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.”

Thornton Wilder The Matchmaker

Dolly Levi, in Act 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=MAEJ8VP0rMYC&q=%22Money+is+like+manure+it's+not+worth+a+thing+unless+it's+spread+around+encouraging+young+things+to+grow%22&pg=PA110#v=onepage <br class="br">Source: The Matchmaker (1954)

Money

“grown-ups always say that things are complicated.”

Nicholas Sparks A Bend in the Road

Jonah Ryan, Chapter 37, p. 336
Variant: I don't want to be a grown-up. … Because grown-ups always say that things are complicated.
Source: 2000s, A Bend in the Road (2001)

“Sometimes you have to accept how things are. You can make it easy on yourself, or you can make it hard. The choice is yours.”

Susan Mallery (1950) American author

Source: Almost Perfect