Thing Quotes (page 4)

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• detailing
• artist
• suspect

THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features of the police sketch artist. This is one of the rare instances where two people can do one self-portrait. Demetri Martin

• personality
• personal
• every

Things every person should have: Wil Wheaton

• hearing things
• stop
• stops

THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR: 'Please stop sucking my dick or I'll call the police. George Carlin

• fall
• scientific
• falling apart

Things fall apart, it's scientific. David Byrne

• rich
• beautiful
• sea

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. This is the reason why beauty is still escaping out of all analysis. It is not yet possessed, it cannot be handled. …It instantly deserts possession, and flies to an object in the horizon. If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be... Ralph Waldo Emerson

• different
• better
• might have been

Things might have been different, but they could not have been better. - From "Leaf by Niggle J. R. R. Tolkien

• sometimes
• fooling
• fool

Things can fool you sometimes. Sue Grafton

• animal
• animals
• whispering

Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places. Hunter S. Thompson

• required
• firstly

Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission. Cormac McCarthy

• life
• soul
• gypsy

Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• him
• reality
• suits

Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged. Stephen King

• end
• starting
• ended

Things always seem to end before they start Lou Reed

• change
• people change
• world

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window. Nicholas Sparks

• peace
• crying
• evening

Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside. "I fry mine in butter!" indeed. Kurt Vonnegut

• long
• refuse
• refused

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long. Ralph Waldo Emerson