Quotes of: Useful-thing Keyword

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

Gertrude Stein

Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.

John Podhoretz

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Lamar Burgess: My father once told me, "We don't choose the things we believe in; they choose us."

Minority Report

[repeated line] Narrator: And he/we did the dumbest thing anyone of us could ever have imagined.

The Sandlot

Arnie Metzger: Stay out of things. Helena Ayala: That is going to be rather difficult when all the evidence is against us.

Traffic

When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.

John Paul DeJoria

I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.

Nathan Fillion

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.

Shelby Foote

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.

John Charles Polanyi

I do tend to use watercolors - I love the splatter sort of thing you can do with watercolors.

Mini Grey

I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.

Pat Metheny

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

Robert Henri

Breakups are still uncomfortable, period, and especially when you really are in love with somebody. They are not the easiest things to deal with, and once you break up, you're trying to get used to not being with that person.

Sevyn Streeter

There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.

Daisy Berkowitz

I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.

Thom Yorke

I think it's the easiest thing in the world to be friendly and say 'please' and 'thank you.' I try and remember it and use it.

Amber Le Bon

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.

Andy Warhol

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

Buffy Andrews

If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.

Robert Mapplethorpe