All Quotes

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.
‐‐ Deb Caletti

To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.
‐‐ Peter Ackroyd

To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
‐‐ Garry Disher

To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.
‐‐ Jane Lindskold

To be a young Irishman in London and go to the theater to see 'Rosemary's Baby'... it scared the crap out of me.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.
‐‐ Jeff Goldblum

To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.
‐‐ Holliday Grainger

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
‐‐ Edith Hamilton

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
‐‐ John Tillotson

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.
‐‐ Philippe Petit

To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.
‐‐ Khloe Kardashian

To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere.
‐‐ Michael Burgess

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.
‐‐ Anchee Min

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To be able to experience a thousand different lives within my lifetime is something that always appealed to me. I wasn't content with just being one person for the rest of my life.
‐‐ Douglas Booth

To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.
‐‐ Christopher Reeve

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
‐‐ Arnold J. Toynbee

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.
‐‐ Stephen Curry

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.
‐‐ Martin Mull

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali

To be able to go the distance with a brother or sister, to have them turn into your ally, is about the greatest thing that can ever happen to you.
‐‐ Marie Brenner

To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
‐‐ Anne Enright

To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.
‐‐ Jordan Spieth

To be able to help a 13-year-old kid from the Bronx follow her dreams just by letting her know she's not forgotten in this crazy world - that's why I got involved with Frum Tha Ground Up.
‐‐ Alicia Keys

To be able to hold all four majors - the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, PGA - all concurrently I think is the Grand Slam. But a lot of people have a different opinions on that. People think you have to win it in the same calendar year.
‐‐ Tiger Woods

To be able to influence someone or to be able to have a group of guys come together to have a successful team and to be together all the time every day for, you know, a year and longer together, you have to have a - find a common ground. And that common ground for us is football.
‐‐ Tim Tebow

To be able to keep the promise I made to God, I think that keeps me going. No matter how much the money had been, I would have always fulfilled my promise, as that's the way I am.
‐‐ Albert Gubay

To be able to know that I can push myself a little further than you think you can was so important. And that it's a mental barrier more than anything. You can break through it.
‐‐ Jason Day

To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.
‐‐ Dana Hussein

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.
‐‐ David Geffen

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
‐‐ Lord Acton

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
‐‐ Edith Wharton

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.
‐‐ James McGreevey

To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around.
‐‐ David Canary

To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
‐‐ Karen Kain

To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.
‐‐ Leslie Marmon Silko

To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.
‐‐ Charlie Watts

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.
‐‐ Rupert Penry-Jones

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.
‐‐ Hugh Laurie

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me.
‐‐ Stephen Hopkins

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
‐‐ Petrarch

To be able to serve and to eat a whole fish, especially a trout, is part of civilized dining. This applies particularly to the young, who should take to it as soon as they can handle knife and fork; this is a fine way for them to begin taking pride in themselves and their abilities.
‐‐ Julia Child

To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf

To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
‐‐ Sally Mann

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
‐‐ Hermann Hesse

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I'd be... it's really, you know, still fascinating for me.
‐‐ Beyonce Knowles

To be able to walk out the door when you come home from a job and wander into the garden to do a bit of watering gives you time to be creative in your mind.
‐‐ Mary Berry