All Quotes

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.
‐‐ Jill Abramson

The times I've tried not to be funny, it's never worked, and the times I'm trying not to be dark and just be funny, that never works, either. As varied as my subject matter is, I think the worldview is pretty consistent: seeing darkness and seeing humor.
‐‐ Rebecca Makkai

The times in my life I've felt the most alive is when I'm having a connection with people. We need to hack cities in a way to bring back that community culture.
‐‐ John Zimmer

The times in my life when I've been my thinnest, I've been a walking psycho wreck. Forget the fact that I was basically starving myself; skinny was usually due to some kind of loss. Death. Rejection. Divorce.
‐‐ Stephanie Klein

The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.
‐‐ Halle Berry

The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing.
‐‐ Daniel Okrent

The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.
‐‐ Muammar al-Gaddafi

The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
‐‐ Natalie Wood

The times when black women have been successful in confronting and overcoming the structural and institutional sexism and racism that persists in our society have been when we are thoughtful and strategic about speaking up. It's when we've done what it takes to introduce and implement our ideas and our plans to make things better.
‐‐ Marcia Fudge

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
‐‐ Publilius Syrus

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
‐‐ Mary Catherine Bateson

The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.
‐‐ Billy Tauzin

The Ting Tings have been a huge hit in my family. I have two young daughters, and both of them love that record, so I pretty much have to listen to that ten times a day.
‐‐ Adam Schlesinger

The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.
‐‐ Taylor Hanson

The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one.
‐‐ Malcolm Campbell

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

The Titanic will protect itself.
‐‐ Robert Ballard

The tithe payer helps the Lord build temples, where families can be sealed forever. The tithe payer helps Him send the gospel to people everywhere. The tithe payer helps Him relieve hunger and suffering in His own way through His servants.
‐‐ Henry B. Eyring

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.
‐‐ David McCullough

The title 'black swimmer' makes it seem like I am not supposed to be able to win a gold medal, I am not supposed to be able to break the Olympic record, and that is not true, as I work as hard as anybody else, and I love the sport, and I want to win, just like everybody else.
‐‐ Simone Manuel

The title came rather early in one of Ringo's more tired and emotional moments.
‐‐ Richard Lester

The title 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' is meant to be a deconstruction of a stereotype, and the whole show is about deconstructing the boxes that we're supposed to be put into. We like taking apart the tropes and the stereotypes and explore the nuances, so 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' is a label that we go deep underneath to explore.
‐‐ Rachel Bloom

The title 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' comes from 'I Ching,' an ancient Chinese book that I was into in the '60s when I was studying different philosophies and religions.
‐‐ Chick Corea

The title of the movie is open to interpretation.
‐‐ Thomas Haden Church

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.
‐‐ James Welch

The title's 'Cowboys & Aliens,' so you can get away with a lot if you chose to. You could make it the union of Cowboys Movies and Alien Movies and done whatever was convenient at any given moment. I think that's what most people would do, especially if you went broader and more comedic. Do whatever's the most fun in the moment.
‐‐ Jon Favreau

The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.
‐‐ Jon Landau

The title, the name Frank, comes from this extraordinary British character Frank Friedbottom. He was very big in Britain in the '80s, but I, as an Irish kid, saw him on 'Top of the Charts.'
‐‐ Lenny Abrahamson

The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.
‐‐ Ira Glass

The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
‐‐ Mallory Ortberg

The tobacco companies knew quite early on the addictive nature of their product.
‐‐ Neil Cavuto

The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.
‐‐ Georges Jacques Danton

The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion.
‐‐ Dorothy Corkille Briggs

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.
‐‐ Louise J. Kaplan

The Toddstock thing is the closest thing, I have to say, a Grateful Dead sort of thing where it all lapses over from the formality of a concert into more of a lifestyle thing.
‐‐ Todd Rundgren

The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.
‐‐ Ronnie Barker

The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.
‐‐ Ezra Miller

The Tolkien estate owns the writings of Professor Tolkien. 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' were sold by Professor Tolkien in the late '60s, the film rights.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

The Tom Strong thing was totally for the money. I plan to get looser after I finish this Maggie saga.
‐‐ Jaime Hernandez

The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.
‐‐ Mary Wilson Little

The tone did take on a negativity that I didn't like and when you make the decision to go the other way as we did it very directly had an impact, you can see it with the tracking.
‐‐ Scott McCallum

The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail.
‐‐ Christian Dior

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
‐‐ Joseph Butler

The Tonys are also kind of like a homegrown party. You know everybody.
‐‐ Amy Ryan

The Tonys are the once-a-year shot for all of these shows and artists who work so diligently every single performance but only for a thousand or so people at a time. This gives them the opportunity to perform to millions of people.
‐‐ Neil Patrick Harris

The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.
‐‐ Bill Gates

The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.
‐‐ David LaChapelle

The tools of 'The Prosperous Heart' help people to embrace the life that they actually have, where they often find that they already have 'enough.'
‐‐ Julia Cameron

The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.
‐‐ Clay Shirky