All Quotes

A thoughtful piece of criticism by somebody who understands the context of what you are doing is a tremendous gift and honor to read, even if they don't completely embrace your work.
‐‐ Jon Favreau

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
‐‐ Paul Cezanne

A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others.
‐‐ John Stossel

A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
‐‐ Carlo Collodi

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
‐‐ Henrik Ibsen

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
‐‐ Lord Byron

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
‐‐ Hans Frank

A threat to our freedom is a threat to our freedom, whether from a terrorist or from a trade deal.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting.
‐‐ Jurgen Habermas

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
‐‐ Bill Vaughan

A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

A thriving middle class is the source of growth in a technological, capitalist economy. Investing in the middle class is the most pro-business thing you can do.
‐‐ Nick Hanauer

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.
‐‐ Trick Daddy

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.
‐‐ Lawrence Lessig

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
‐‐ H. G. Wells

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.
‐‐ Christopher Wren

A timeless piece of jewelry, like pearls or stud earrings, has lasting value. I bought a vintage ring for $600 with my first paycheck; I plan to pass it down to my daughter.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.
‐‐ Peter DeFazio

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
‐‐ Jean Paul

A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
‐‐ Spiro T. Agnew

A tiny apartment might hold three generations of an immigrant family.
‐‐ Rick Smolan

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.
‐‐ Clementine Paddleford

A tip for looking 'picture perfect' is probably a smile. I think everyone looks better when they are happy; you give off a glow - or at least that is what my mum would say!
‐‐ Amber Le Bon

A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house.
‐‐ Caroline Leavitt

A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.
‐‐ Gary Hamel

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
‐‐ George Eliot

A Tom Ford three-piece makes you feel so confident, it's bananas.
‐‐ Dwyane Wade

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
‐‐ Alexander the Great

A ton of kids at school have made fun of me; if I had to give advice to other girls, I would say, 'Hang loose and ignore them. They shouldn't faze you no matter how popular they think they are.'
‐‐ Paris Jackson

A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
‐‐ Cameron Russell

A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.
‐‐ Charles Babbage

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
‐‐ T. S. Eliot

A 'Torchwood' movie would be incredible. It would be sensational to have a beginning, a middle and an end in ninety minutes. A big walloping 'Torchwood' crunched into ninety minutes would be breathtaking.
‐‐ Eve Myles

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
‐‐ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.
‐‐ Don Drysdale

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.
‐‐ Max Hastings

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.
‐‐ Boris Yeltsin

A totally healthy actor is a paradox.
‐‐ Vittorio Gassman

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
‐‐ Dan Rather

A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.
‐‐ Julian Casablancas

A tour of the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo led by Barbara Kingsolver would be nice. And I certainly wouldn't turn down a tour of Johannes Vermeer's Delft led by Tracey Chevalier.
‐‐ Cathy Marie Buchanan

A touring band is a family and a workplace at the same time, and you're living with people you didn't necessarily choose every day for up to a year.
‐‐ Stacey D'Erasmo

A touring comic's typical day roughly amounts to an hour of being laughed at and 20 minutes of being photographed. The other 22 hours and 40 minutes are spent in silence.
‐‐ Rhys Darby

A toy is seen both as a bauble and as an intellectual machine.
‐‐ Brian Sutton-Smith

A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly in cases of doubt.
‐‐ David Novak

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
‐‐ Aristotle

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
‐‐ Jean Racine