Quotes About Things

Within all things, all living beings, the words of the gods lie hidden, awaiting revelation.

Toothbrushes kept company with cellophane-packaged voodoo dolls and all the other little things that tourists might have forgotten to bring with them. Charles

There are people who like cute, furry things and people who eat cute, furry things -Issy, pag. 53

You're so easy to tease. And yes, your friend is just fine. Well, except that he keeps putting all my things away and trying to clean up. Now I can't find anything. He's compulsive.

There was an edge to this darkness.... A cold wind was blowing out of the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

old men have a name for them, but I do not remember exactly. It is something like corns." The young man paused, as if to be told the right word, but when he had no reply, he went on again, being obviously eager to show off his knowledge about arrowheads. "We find these little round things in the old buildings. Often there are many—many—of them in the boxes and drawers.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things; Of shoes - and ships - and sealing-wax - Of cabbages - and kings - And why the sea is boiling hot - And whether pigs have wings."

Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.

But if the Length of the Journey was all, it would be no burden. But the Consideration of What is to be done, is of great Weight. Great Things are wanted to be done, and little Things only I fear can be done.

She had the scattered feeling she always got when events conspired to mess things up, and nothing exhausted and frustrated her more than a mess she was incapable of fixing.

And what the hell does that even mean? Why would you serve food for thoughgs, and what kind of food? If you serve spinach, do you get healthy thoughts? If it's ice cream and candy, it is fun thoughts? Why do we say stupid things?

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. —Shakespeare

The irony is, she must have offspring all over the district who would be happy to share their homes with her. But it's not in their power to invite her. They are part of the furniture, part of the alarm system. They do us the honour of treating us like gods, and we respond by treating them like things.

In the morning I woke up and turned over; a big cloud of dust rose from the mattress. I yanked at the window; it was nailed. Tim Gray was in the bed too. We coughed and sneezed. Our breakfast consisted of stale beer. Babe came back from her hotel and we got our things together to leave.

the whole thing was hopeless, besides which Lucille would never understand me because I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop.

Kindness can come from someone on Twitter, it can come from someone on the street, it can come from someone at work. Without kindness, I don't know what I would do. The greatest part of life is the simple things.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making of things, the other concerning the making of men.

There's a level of service that we could provide when we're just at Harvard that we can't provide for all of the colleges, and there's a level of service that we can provide when we're a college network that we wouldn't be able to provide if we went to other types of things.

Personally I'm more into science and engineering types of things, not so much into testing 'Star Wars' myths.

I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little more except send us into the bush. It was not a bad way of running things.

It wasn't until I moved to New York that I started actually leaving the house and doing things. You know, I was a typical theater nerd.