Quotes About Things

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

I just discovered the Santa Monica flea market, every Sunday. I go weekly. There's a lot of interesting things there.

In a weird way, I like to find the quirkiness in ordinary things. I like to find what is ordinary in quirky people.

I love to watch videos, and I've always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.

I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

I love my nice things, but I'm still the Welsh family girl.

You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.

The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.

You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and - which happened out of practicing piano when I was a kid.

I'm always going to have a strong preference for things that can actually pass into legislation. We can talk about big issues and have big goals while also working on pragmatic things.

I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for amazing things.

There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.

I didn't like Barbie dolls, so I used to have this overactive imagination, and I used to pretend to be all these different things. My weird childhood fetishes seem to have come to life now as an actor.

I try to limit my time with Michael Davies to as little as possible per week, and he is pretty good with that, since he has a bazillion things to do. When I do see him, I try not to talk about dental work or anything like that because I know the Brits get very sensitive.

It can be tough to turn things down, but as an actor, being in demand is a nice problem to have.

I love coffee. It's one of my favorite things in the world, and I love tasting different coffees.

I hate talking to media. I hate it, man. You have to. But it's crazy. I thought there were only two things in this world that you had to do, and that was die and pay taxes. Now I know that you've got to talk to media. And I hate it.

I tell you, if you feel strange, strange things will happen to you: Fallen peacocks on library shelves

What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.

There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically — that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.

Shooting. Put oneself into a state of intense ignorance and curiosity, and yet see things in advance.

Let us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!"

Some things you miss because they're so tiny you overlook them. But some things you don't see because they're so huge.

The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use.