T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.”
“To be amongst all and yet to stare blankly at the consuming loneliness, to shake hands and yet to feel the penetrating emptiness, to be surrounded by all and yet to feel forsaken--this is the engulfing forlornness as millions suffer from the unseen depression, society's invisible ailment. The world needs a return back to this earth, to feel it, to touch it and to tremble with the joy of it in the raw, real and most powerful way!”
“To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.”
“To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.”
Source: The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures
“To be an actor and a director, I actually felt it helped me tremendously to be in the scenes of The Hollars, because as you can see, they're very intimate, very intense scenes. You don't want to break the actor's character and you don't want to break their momentum, so as the actor, I tried not to call cut as much as I could, and almost make it feel like a play, just set this environment where these amazing actors could do what they wanted to do.”
“To be an actor for 30-odd years trying to become recognized, and to end up playing a full prosthetic and a character 3 foot 9′, or something like that, is... well, it just shows that you can get actors to do anything.”
“To be an actor in the society in Israel, you have to be ten times better than the Israeli Jews. To get the roles in mainstream theater or to get any role, not typecast as an Arab. And also if you are ten times better, not all the time you get the opportunity.”
“To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.”
“To be an actor you have to be a child.”
“To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That’s why, when people meet you and you seem very together, they are quite surprised - they don’t see you behind closed doors.”
“To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.”
“To be an actor you need various things. You need to have a head for choosing the roles. You have to be, hopefully, easy to work with so people enjoy working with you. You have to deal with missing roles, with not being asked to work, with doing good work and then being castigated by the critics for it. You have to have a skin that can deal with all of that. I, fortunately, seem to have the makeup which allows me to deal with the business. I mean, not as everybody.”
“To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.”
“To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.”
“To be an adult doesn't mean to be equal with your parents; give them some respect.”
“To be an adult who still believes in wonder and magic, despite all of the trauma, loss, and hardship, is to live with a kind of quiet courage and sense of hope”
Source: Amor Fati: An Incredible True Story of Survival, Hope & Healing
“To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.”
“To be an ally is a formal military alliance. And we have a formal military alliance in NATO. But we are partners with other countries all across the world. And they're - they will be a partner.”
“To be an alpha male is not just about strength; it’s a mindset.”
“To be an ambassador for Christ means to invite everyone to a personal encounter with Jesus”
“To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.”
“To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim.”
“To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.”
“To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.”
Source: Character and Opinion in the United States
“To be an American is to be accosted by bigotry and enmity for the rights that you were told to appreciate.”
“To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.”
“To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.”
Source: The Cloister Walk
“To be an American is to
recognize the sacrifice
of the widow and the orphan;
it is to understand the weft of tent
cities expecting caravans,
and the heft of a child in a camp
not meant for children, or sitting
before a judge awaiting judgement.
What do we say to the native
whose lands we now inhabit?
What do we say to our immigrant
fathers who held certain truths
to be self-evident?
Do we now still pledge to each
other our lives, our fortunes,
our sacred honor.
There are no kings in America.
Only gilded men we can topple
again and again.”
“To be an anarchist only means that you believe that aggression is not justified, and that states necessarily employ aggression. And, therefore, that states, and the aggression they necessarily employ, are unjustified. It's quite simple, really. It's an ethical view, so no surprise it confuses utilitarians.”
“To be an architect has been a life-long dream. Little did I know when asked at the age of 14 'what do you want to do when you grow up?' I said I wanted to be an architect. After 50 years I am still learning all what that means. Working together with so many people has been enormously gratifying. Being an architect means being a member of a fantastic team.”
“To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.”
Source: Buildings and projects, 1981-1985
“To be an aritst is not to wait for others to define us, but to define ourselves, claim our lives.”
Source: Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity
“To be an artist and to be recognized by another artist who is, you know, just something you can't even put into words, someone that is so far beyond what the normal human being experience is in terms of creativity and originality. That was kind of a moment where I thought wow maybe I do have something more that makes me special.”
“To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.”
Source: Travesties
“To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.”
Source: The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin
“To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.”
“To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.”
Source: the Agony and the Ecstasy
“To be an artist is not about fame; it's about art, which is this intangible thing that has got to have lots of integrity, whereas being famous doesn't really take any integrity. But I think you have to admit that you want to be famous, otherwise you can't be an artist. Art and fame together are like a desire to live forever.”
“To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.”
Source: Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment
“To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion”
“To be an artist is to romance the stone – to love it enough to uncover its beauty.”
Source: Aphrodite in Pieces
“To be an artist is to take responsibility for the world's destiny. You shape it by your vision.”
“To be an artist it is not necessary to make a living from our creations. Nor is it necessary to have work hanging in fine museums or the praise of critics . . . To be an artist it is necessary to live with our eyes wide open, to breathe in the colors of mountain and sky, to know the sound of leaves rustling, the smell of snow, the texture of bark . . . To be an artist is to notice every beautiful and tragic thing, to cry freely, to collect experience and shape it into forms that others can share.”
“To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.”
“To be an artist means not to compute or count.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.”
“To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.”
“To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.”
“To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.”
Source: Big in Japan: A (Hungry) Ghost Story
“To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.”