All Quotes

To me, writing is the most fun. It's not always fun, but finally when you make it come out the way you want, it's then you can say, 'It's fun, boy.'
‐‐ Elmore Leonard

To me you cannot be fully human, fully civilised, unless you recognise humanity in everyone.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

To me, you go through things like that and you learn from it. You add it on to your life, to try to make your life better. Instead of dogging people, learn something from it. And keep stepping.
‐‐ Bootsy Collins

To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am.
‐‐ Cheech Marin

To me, you know, from my childhood I always had a fascination for United States.
‐‐ Ravi Shankar

To me, you make a tradeoff. It might be a little bit more expensive. But you're getting a better tasting, higher quality food that's going to be better for your health and better for the environment.
‐‐ John Mackey

To measure prices by a currency that is called by the same names as gold, but that is really inferior in value to gold, and then - because those prices are nominally higher than gold prices - to say that they are inflated, relatively to gold, is a perfect absurdity.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner

To measure the man, measure his heart.
‐‐ Malcolm Forbes

To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.
‐‐ Kelsang Gyatso

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.
‐‐ Thich Nhat Hanh

To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.
‐‐ Tracy Austin

To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.
‐‐ Ibrahim Babangida

To meet the shortage of supplies from America, due to lack of shipping, the representatives of the different supply departments were constantly in search of available material and supplies in Europe.
‐‐ Kelly Miller

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

To minimize market uncertainty and achieve the maximum effect of its policies, the Federal Reserve is committed to providing the public as much information as possible about the uses of its balance sheet, plans regarding future uses of its balance sheet, and the criteria on which the relevant decisions are based.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
‐‐ Larry Ellison

To modify the conditions of the Earth's movement is beyond the powers of man. It is not given to mankind to change the order established by the Creator in the system of the Universe.
‐‐ Jules Verne

To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.
‐‐ Benjamin F. Wade

To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
‐‐ E. F. Benson

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.
‐‐ Herbie Mann

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
‐‐ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear children, and this implies having autonomy or control over one's life. In the 19th century, becoming an adult was celebrated as a liberation from paternal authority. Today we regard it more as a time of regret and stagnation.
‐‐ Jane Ridley

To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is - in many respects - a valid one. Superpower rivalry during the Cold War ramped up U.S. and Soviet space efforts to a scale that Western Europe had no motive to match.
‐‐ Martin Rees

To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.
‐‐ Teller

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
‐‐ Nina Simone

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
‐‐ Aeschylus

To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.
‐‐ Meghan O'Rourke

To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

To move past fear is a cliche.
‐‐ Tony Abbott

To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.
‐‐ Piet Mondrian

To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.
‐‐ Joshua A. Norton

To my astonishment, everything that I had assumed was now questioned by the findings. What started off as a search for identity that appeared to be purely Scottish in origin ended up as a discovery of my migrant roots - indeed an understanding that almost all of our families, at some stage, have been migrants - and my European roots.
‐‐ Gordon Brown

To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

To my disappointment, not many young people seem to be interested in science, especially chemistry.
‐‐ Akira Suzuki

To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

To my family and friends, I'm very definitely a clown. But do you know what? Doing a drama would almost seem easy because I wouldn't need to find that gag in a line.
‐‐ Ashley Jensen

To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano .
‐‐ Tony Shalhoub

To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.
‐‐ Paul Ryan

To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.
‐‐ Holly Near

To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it's in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

To my irritation, you still can't flick through an ebook properly; you can't riffle the pages, you can't look at more than one page at once.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.
‐‐ Don Rickles

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.
‐‐ Jim Ryun

To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely important to find out if there are side effects. We should also find out what are the effects on fine motor skills and reaction time. These are all important questions that should be assessed.
‐‐ Dale Archer

To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult, so let's avoid him.'
‐‐ Ed Asner

To my knowledge, there's never been a scientist in the U.S. Senate.
‐‐ Peter Agre

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking