All Quotes

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
‐‐ Jack Henry Abbott

To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.
‐‐ Joanna Lumley

To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.
‐‐ Aleksander Kwasniewski

To be in the music industry, to be in any kind of entertainment industry, you really, really have to be passionate about it and love it and persevere, because if that passion isn't there, it's easy to give up. If you really want it, the ambition is there, it'll come. It's definitely harder work than some people think.
‐‐ Alexandra Chando

To be in the privileged position where I am able to give something back is, for me, perhaps the single most important measure of success.
‐‐ Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber

To be in the right is often an expensive business.
‐‐ Phyllis Bottome

To be in the South in my first big job was very nostalgic. There is an energy to the way we do things in the South.
‐‐ Anna Wood

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.
‐‐ John Eldredge

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.
‐‐ Alec Baldwin

To be in 'Vogue' has to mean something. It's an endorsement. It's a validation.
‐‐ Anna Wintour

To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.
‐‐ Nancy Pearcey

To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.
‐‐ Deborah Eisenberg

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
‐‐ George Santayana

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.
‐‐ George Herbert Mead

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.
‐‐ Andrew Wyeth

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.
‐‐ Angelina Jolie

To be involved in a senior tournament back in the States is very satisfying.
‐‐ John McEnroe

To be involved with movies that become kind of cult classics... I've been very fortunate. 'The Warriors' is certainly a cult classic, and 'Xanadu' is, to a certain degree, a cult classic as well.
‐‐ Michael Beck

To be is to do.
‐‐ Immanuel Kant

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

To be joining 'The Hunger Games' family is such a thrill. It deserves the hype because it's well written, handles really big subject matter, but doesn't talk down to its audience. And then there's the romance element.
‐‐ Natalie Dormer

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel.
‐‐ David Alan Grier

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'
‐‐ Cam Gigandet

To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.
‐‐ Alex Ebert

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
‐‐ Stendhal

To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
‐‐ Zsa Zsa Gabor

To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined with taking action to do something for someone else to make their life better.
‐‐ Richard Kiel

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
‐‐ Minna Antrim

To be loved is very demoralizing.
‐‐ Katharine Hepburn

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
‐‐ Robert A. Heinlein

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.
‐‐ Jane Harrison

To be memorable and to have dramatic impact, informational detail must function actively within the dynamic of a story.
‐‐ Tim O'Brien

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
‐‐ Anatole Broyard

To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.
‐‐ Ryan Phillippe

To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it's surprising to a lot of people that I had the insight I had.
‐‐ Steve Harvey

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
‐‐ E. E. Cummings

To be number one, you must train like you are number two.
‐‐ Maurice Greene

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
‐‐ Alexander Smith

To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.
‐‐ David A. Bednar

To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.
‐‐ Martin Buber

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
‐‐ Ronald Blythe

To be on 'Coast to Coast,' you have to be willing to stay awake in the middle of the night. But in return you get a great audience of millions of listeners all across the nation.
‐‐ George Noory

To be on my very first spacewalk, to be outside, and to have contamination in my suit to the point that I couldn't see in either eye - that, I think, would cause some people to lose control.
‐‐ Chris Hadfield

To be on television and have my nieces and nephews see me, and seeing them wear my shirt to the games and be proud, it's so sweet. Sometimes it feels like it's just a dream.
‐‐ Sue Wicks

To be on the road, even if you're not that happy, is all right, as long as I'm pourin' me heart into it.
‐‐ Joe Cocker

To be on the same team with Orr was great because when I turned pro, nobody had more charisma.
‐‐ Marcel Dionne