Quotes with thing—but

Quotes 6721 till 6740 of 10185.

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
    - +
     0
  • Bill Bruford The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
    - +
     0
  • Thornton Wilder The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
    - +
     0
  • Carole Berman The best thing about doing needlepoint for very small children is that they are so uncritical. The don't say things like, I see you've missed some stitches over here on the leg, was that intentional? or Was this creature blinded in a fight? They will clasp it in their little arms and love it besottedly, inseparably as the thing becomes more and more rancid.
    - +
     0
  • Brion James The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.
    Brion James
    American actor (1945 - 1999)
    - +
     0
  • Abraham Lincoln The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
    The wit and wisdom of Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
    - +
     0
  • Douglas Jerrold The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
    - +
     0
  • John Ruskin The best thing in life aren't things.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • Sebastian Faulks The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
    Engleby (2007)
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
    - +
     0
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
    - +
     0
  • Victoria Billings The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
    Victoria Billings
    American writer
    - +
     0
  • Dorothy Day The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
    - +
     0
  • Gamaliel Bradford The best translation is not that which is most like the original but which is the most different from it.
    Gamaliel Bradford
    American biographer, critic, poet, and dramatist (1863 - 1932)
    - +
     0
  • Bill Simmons The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California... that one goes waaaaaaaaay back, and both sides absolutely detest each other. Fights in the stands, fights in the parking lot, the whole thing. It's every bit as bitter as Yankees-Red Sox without nearly the same hype.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
    - +
     0
  • Charles Edward Jerningham The best way to secure revenge is not to make your enemy fail, but to succeed yourself.
    The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
    - +
     0
  • James Baldwin The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
    - +
     0
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
     0
  • Richard Dawkins The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
    - +
     0
  • Buzz Aldrin The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
    - +
     0
  • Earl Nightingale The big thing is that you know what you want.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
    - +
     0
All thing—but famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 337)