All Quotes

Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.
‐‐ George W. Romney

Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.
‐‐ Peter Mandelson

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
‐‐ Leo Buscaglia

Too often, wealthy people born on third base blithely criticize the poor for failing to hit home runs. The advantaged sometimes perceive empathy as a sign of muddle-headed weakness rather than as a marker of civilization.
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof

Too often, when people are in trouble they look for scapegoats.
‐‐ Miep Gies

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.
‐‐ Ann Aguirre

Too often, you see film makers from other countries who have made interesting, original films, and then they come here and get homogenized into being hack Hollywood directors. I don't want to fall into that.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.
‐‐ Elizabeth Holmes

Too often, young people who are just bursting with idealism either find themselves playing a game for which they have little heart or are hurling themselves into wasteful protests against the so-called Establishment.
‐‐ George W. Romney

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
‐‐ Thomas Gray

Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.
‐‐ Lance Loud

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.
‐‐ Samuel E. Morison

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.
‐‐ Eliot Engel

Took us a great amount of strength to get them into the world, and for them to be in the world. I think that their little spirits, you know, just said, well, we're going to be there. So it makes it very special because of it.
‐‐ Cheryl Tiegs

Tool of Communist agitators... it's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how little they understand.
‐‐ Helen Suzman

'Toonami' was a tremendous vehicle, delivering the art of Japanese animation to a massive audience that may have otherwise never experienced it. I feel an immense debt of gratitude to everyone involved with the show and to every fan who supported it.
‐‐ Steven Blum

Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises.
‐‐ Paul Stanley

Top athletes are like warriors.
‐‐ Lily James

Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal.
‐‐ Robin S. Sharma

'Top Chef' is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.
‐‐ Toby Young

Top doctors, I have come to believe, are as big a menace to your health as top money managers are to your bank account. They are almost never available to talk to.
‐‐ Tina Brown

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
‐‐ Gary Hamel

'Top Gear' changed people's perceptions of me. I've had much more positive responses from my TV appearances than written articles. And I have the weirdest voice.
‐‐ James Blunt

'Top Gun' was one of my favorite movies growing up.
‐‐ Stephen Colletti

Top knots are the easiest thing to create.
‐‐ Zendaya

Top managers love people and they want to be loved - it turns out being loved is good for your career, especially if you are the boss.
‐‐ Chade-Meng Tan

'Top Model' is pretty good, because it gives these girls an opportunity to chase their passion and possibly get a contract.
‐‐ Erik Estrada

Top notch Indian employers such as Flipkart have hired Udacity Nanodegree graduates based solely on their performance in our programme, without any in-person interview.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun

Top Ten lists make me insane. I just know they're going to change daily.
‐‐ Bill Hader

Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've purchased. Failure doesn't enter into anyone's calculations.
‐‐ Sarah Churchwell

Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.
‐‐ Laura Mvula

Topshop makes the best skinny jeans for my shape. I order online or stock up when I'm back in London.
‐‐ Ashley Madekwe

Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.
‐‐ Alice Oswald

Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for a long time, we were totally winging it.
‐‐ Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
‐‐ Hal Sparks

Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
‐‐ Tori Amos

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

' Torn' is hopeful. It's a book that meets you in your pain and shows you how to move forward with life and in your walk with God.
‐‐ Jud Wilhite

Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen

Toronto is a special city, and the environment is perfect for the arts; free and alive. I'm a New Yorker, and Toronto reminds me of a much cleaner New York, so it's like coming home after your mom just cleaned your room for you; for me that's a lovely environment.
‐‐ Emory Cohen

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.
‐‐ Melanie Fiona

Toronto is actually way more fast-paced than L.A. - I find the fast-paced nature of Toronto a bit obtrusive. In L.A., I love getting up and going hiking and going to the beach - that's L.A. culture and it's awesome and I miss it. Toronto culture is wonderful, but I miss L.A.
‐‐ Jordan Gavaris

Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.
‐‐ Dan Hill

Toronto is home; nothing beats home.
‐‐ Ellen Wong

Toronto's a delightful city.
‐‐ Nellie McKay

Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
‐‐ Pat Burns

Torremolinos has no Jesus Gil, no pretty little old town, and no resident celebrities to sing its praises.
‐‐ David Hewson

Tortoises can survive for weeks without food or water, easily long enough to float in the Humboldt Current from South America to the Galapagos Islands.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.
‐‐ Jerrold Nadler

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?
‐‐ Arundhati Roy