All Quotes

To take a job just so I can go on a fancy vacation doesn't really seem worth it.
‐‐ Melanie Lynskey

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
‐‐ Susan Sontag

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.
‐‐ John Drinkwater

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.
‐‐ Edward Gorey

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
‐‐ Yannick Noah

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.
‐‐ Henri Cartier-Bresson

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
‐‐ Peter Nivio Zarlenga

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
‐‐ Pierre Corneille

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
‐‐ Clifton Fadiman

To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

To talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.
‐‐ Grace Metalious

To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.
‐‐ Ricky Williams

To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.
‐‐ Hassan Nasrallah

To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.
‐‐ Vaclav Klaus

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
‐‐ Pearl Bailey

To taste fully is to live fully.
‐‐ Kate Christensen

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
‐‐ Zoltan Kodaly

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
‐‐ Benjamin Jowett

To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say 'two plus two is four' to every kid and be sure that we are right. But in coaching, we have to literally get to the soul of the people we are dealing with.
‐‐ Joe Paterno

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

To teach is to learn twice.
‐‐ Joseph Joubert

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
‐‐ Ellen Glasgow

To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.
‐‐ Robert Harris

To tell an ally - who is shedding blood next to you - that you can't share information is a crime.
‐‐ David Warner

To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.
‐‐ Valentina Tereshkova

To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.
‐‐ Kate Forsyth

To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.
‐‐ Roman Abramovich

To tell the truth is revolutionary.
‐‐ Antonio Gramsci

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
‐‐ June Jordan

To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.
‐‐ Artie Lange

To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!
‐‐ Dabney Coleman

To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example.
‐‐ Mary Oliver

To tell you the truth, I don't edit much at all. Most times, when I have finished the first draft, that's the book. Of course, I work on the page I am on until I am happy with it. I might even say that I try to state the landscape.
‐‐ Per Petterson

To tell you the truth, I don't like talking too much once I leave this booth. I'm talked out.
‐‐ Lynn Samuels

To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.
‐‐ Ed Asner

To tell you the truth, I'm shocked, as I travel across this country, at how little people know or don't want to know about HIV/AIDS. There are a lot of people who don't know that HIV is one thing and AIDS is another. Those people just think it's one big old alphabet of a disease.
‐‐ Sheryl Lee Ralph

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.
‐‐ Lesley Garrett

To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

To tell you the truth, I've never met anybody who can envision more than three dimensions. There are some who claim they can, and maybe they can; it's hard to say.
‐‐ Brian Greene

To tell you the truth, I was turning into a little spoiled brat after 'Rocky V.'
‐‐ Sage Stallone

To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.
‐‐ Krzysztof Kieslowski

To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister.
‐‐ Amy Heckerling

To tell you the truth, it's a complex piece, so I can't really answer your question at present.
‐‐ Paul Darrow

To tell you the truth, man, we spend most of the time travelling in hotels, in festivals, in concert halls, clubs, airports. The most unenjoyable part is all the security at airports.
‐‐ Hugh Masekela

To tell you the truth, there are all these websites predicting my early death, and it's starting to work on me!
‐‐ Artie Lange

To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
‐‐ Franz Grillparzer

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
‐‐ Thomas Babington Macaulay