All Quotes

The tools used by economists to analyze business firms are too abstract and speculative to offer any guidance to entrepreneurs and managers in their constant struggle to bring novel products to consumers at low cost.
‐‐ Ronald Coase

The Toothbrush mustache is the most powerful configuration of facial hair the world has ever known. It overpowers whoever touches it. By merely doodling a Toothbrush mustache on a poster, you make a political statement.
‐‐ Rich Cohen

The Toothbrush mustache was first introduced in Germany by Americans, who turned up with it at the end of the 19th century the way Americans would turn up with ducktails in the 1950s. It was a bit of modern efficiency, an answer to the ornate mustaches of Europe - pop effluvia that fell into the grip of a bad, bad man.
‐‐ Rich Cohen

The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.
‐‐ Erez Lieberman Aiden

The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to.
‐‐ Michael Bolton

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
‐‐ Tom Peters

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.
‐‐ Brendon Burchard

The top golfers in the world are like Formula One cars when it comes to their swings.
‐‐ Stuart Appleby

The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.
‐‐ Martina Hingis

The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.
‐‐ Andrew Card

The top quark was discovered in 1995, and since then, the Higgs has become our obsession because the standard model was incomplete without it.
‐‐ Fabiola Gianotti

The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

The topic 'Farm Wisdom' is not a gospel doctrine or scriptural topic, although I found considerable scriptural support for the lessons learned on the farm.
‐‐ John Bytheway

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.
‐‐ Kobe Bryant

The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react.
‐‐ Edward Ball

The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.
‐‐ Joyce Brothers

The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.
‐‐ John Ortberg

The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.
‐‐ Jonathan Safran Foer

The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America's torch alone. But it is America's duty - and honor - to hold it high enough that all the world can see its light.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.
‐‐ Lakshmi Mittal

The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.
‐‐ Lucy Powell

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
‐‐ Aneurin Bevan

The Tories seem unable to make any impact north of the border.
‐‐ Lucy Powell

The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.
‐‐ Maurice Saatchi

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.
‐‐ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer.
‐‐ Dennis Hastert

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
‐‐ John Calvin

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.
‐‐ John Strachan

The Tory party is like a rugby union match in which all 30 players are wearing the same strip. They're not sure who they are grabbing round the knees, but they're having a lot of fun doing it.
‐‐ Simon Hoggart

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
‐‐ Alfred North Whitehead

The total amount of energy we use every year - from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else - is dwarfed by the amount of solar energy hitting the planet each year.
‐‐ Ramez Naam

The total bogus voters in Dera Bassi might be several thousand.
‐‐ Preneet Kaur

The total funding of SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in the U.S. is 0.0003 percent of the tax monies spent on health and human services. And it's not even tax money. The SETI Institute's hunt for signals is funded by donations.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

The total impact of the Tory/Liberal tax, welfare and public spending changes has hit the poorest 10% in society disproportionately hard - and women have been affected even more badly than men.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits.
‐‐ John Perry Barlow

The total number of people that do a job that has the same description as mine in the entire world is fewer than 10. There's a lot of effort looking for life in space - that's a lot of what NASA does, but they're not necessarily looking for the kind of life that can hold up its side of a conversation.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

The total station economy is about $800 million dollars a year, and about $90 million comes from the government. In the long run, we would be better off without federal funding.
‐‐ Ron Schiller

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.
‐‐ Fred Frith

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
‐‐ Robert Anton Wilson

The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.
‐‐ B. R. Ambedkar

The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's hard for them to figure out how to play what they like when there's somebody up above them yelling 'you have to play this.'
‐‐ Chris Isaak

The tough thing about these senatorial jobs is you get 'yes' or 'no' votes. Your whole job is to either say 'yes' or 'no' and explain why.
‐‐ Mark Kirk

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.
‐‐ Randy Wayne White

The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with 'Blood Knot,' which was trying to convince South African audiences that South African stories also had a place on the stage.
‐‐ Athol Fugard

The toughest decision is always whether to open a restaurant. Two or three bad months, and you could be out of business.
‐‐ Jean-Georges Vongerichten

The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through.
‐‐ Ronaldinho

The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die.
‐‐ Star Jones