All Quotes

To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.
‐‐ Vannevar Bush

To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.
‐‐ Ann Bancroft

To put as little pressure on the relationship you're in is very important.
‐‐ Kate Bosworth

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
‐‐ Barbara Tuchman

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.
‐‐ Frank Auerbach

To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.
‐‐ Frank Shorter

To put it better, we believe the radar gun will get you drafted, but you have to pitch to get to the big leagues. Tools will get you drafted, but you have to be able to play to get to the big leagues.
‐‐ Roy Clark

To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.
‐‐ Ha-Joon Chang

To put it crudely, 'The Act of Killing' would blast open the space for the more delicate film, 'The Look of Silence,' to do its work.
‐‐ Joshua Oppenheimer

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.
‐‐ Cy Coleman

To put it mildly, I'm not crazy about the implication that pregnant women are incapable of deciding for themselves.
‐‐ Emily Oster

To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
‐‐ Fran Lebowitz

To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
‐‐ Adam Davidson

To put it simply, my support of Israel will be just as strong the day after Prime Minister Netanyahu's address as it is today.
‐‐ Marcia Fudge

To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
‐‐ Edgar Lee Masters

To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.
‐‐ Anna Held

To put on a performance, you have to be emotional. You can't be a zombie.
‐‐ Ashley Wagner

To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.
‐‐ Danny Sugerman

To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.
‐‐ Christine Todd Whitman

To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.
‐‐ Albert Maltz

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.
‐‐ Luigi Barzini

To put up with me, you have to be patient.
‐‐ Greg Rutherford

To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical.
‐‐ Jules Verne

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.
‐‐ Rod Taylor

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.
‐‐ Juliette Gordon Low

To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.
‐‐ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!
‐‐ Emerson Fittipaldi

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman has been my mission.
‐‐ Ruth Bernhard

To rally every black sheep is my goal.
‐‐ Julian Cope

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

To re-live these characters would be wonderful, because I know when the show ends it will be huge mourning process.
‐‐ Gillian Anderson

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
‐‐ Saint Teresa of Avila

To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
‐‐ K'naan

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.
‐‐ Maria Mitchell

To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work to do, to try to understand why they behave like they behave, to relate entirely and understand them and to be completely emotionally connected. That is much more fun 99 percent of the time.
‐‐ Rebecca Hall

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
‐‐ Aleister Crowley

To read a novel requires a certain amount of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel, really.
‐‐ Philip Roth

To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
‐‐ Andre Gide

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.
‐‐ Rex Stout

To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.
‐‐ Fredrik Bajer

To read too many books is harmful.
‐‐ Mao Zedong

To read Transtromer - the best times are at night, in silence, and alone - is to surrender to the far-fetched. It is to climb out of bed and listen to what the house is saying, and to how the wind outside responds. Each of his readers reads him as a personal secret.
‐‐ Teju Cole

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
‐‐ Edmund Burke