T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.”
“To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.”
Source: Eero Saarinen on His Work: A Selection of Buildings Dating from 1947 to 1964 with Statements by the Architect
“To me the early childhood story is an ecumenical one. You take poverty seriously. You take seriously maternal depression. You take seriously children under stress and you take seriously the effects of extended hours participation in poor quality care. Those are the facts I begin with.”
“To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.”
“To me the erotic is the relationship that organically manifests itself between people finding and exploring love. It is the universality of accepting the darkness that makes up human nature, the darkness I find so romantic within that dance, the inevitable opening up that lets in the light of sensuality between two human beings becoming one together without the confines of preconceived morality. In short, an exploration of all the facets of both the subconscious and conscious of light and dark. “Emotional connectedness.”
“To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.”
“To me the fact that a Vice President can go to Capitol Hill and lobby for torture is just unbelievable. Just unbelievable! The fact that a small clique of attorneys in the Department of Justice can write how can we get around the Geneva Conventions so that we can torture during interrogations - I can't even get their mentally. And when you read their briefs, they didn't get there mentally.”
“To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.”
Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
“To me the footballs are approved by the league and game officials pregame and we play with what's out there. That's the only way that I have ever thought about that.”
“To me the foundation of all life is in the ocean.”
“To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I feel the whirl of the vortex sucking me slowly, irresistibly, inescapably into itself.”
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel
“To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.”
Source: Freedom is the starting point: a collection of memorable words
“To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.”
“To me the gold price takes the form of a very uncomplicated formula, and all you have to do is divide one by 'n.' And 'n', I'm glad you ask, 'n' is the world's trust in the institution of paper money and in the capacity of people like Ben Bernanke to manage it. So the smaller 'n', the bigger the price. One divided by a receding number is the definition of a bull market.”
“To me the gospel is not a great mass of theological jargon. It is a simple and beautiful and logical thing, with one quiet truth following another in orderly sequence. I do not fret over the mysteries. I do not worry whether the heavenly gates swing or slide. I am only concerned that they open.”
“To me the greatest moment in an experiment is always just before I learn whether the particular idea is a good or a bad one. Thus even a failure is exciting, and most of my ideas have of course been wrong.”
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”
Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
“To me the greatest problem with humanity is that they don't know anything of meditation.”
“To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the vision of God. That story of the human rise to what I call the vision of God is the story which is told in the Bible.”
“To me, the haircut represented beauty and strength, that I was a woman who would live her life without the boundaries imposed upon her by other people.”
Source: Go Big or Go Home: Taking Risks in Life, Love, and Tattooing
“To me, the hallmark of the modern mind is that it loves to wander from its subject.”
Source: The Secret History
“To me the hardest thing is hating you.
Even harder than walking away still loving you.”
“To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.”
Source: Beethoven: The Man and the Artist
“To me the industry has always said that the lovers and haters and principal characters will always be white in Hollywood, and black people will always be appendages of those kinds of dramas, or they will be comedic outlets. It will never change.”
“To me, the iniquity inherent in typos was as plain as a swath cut through virgin forest, or dog feces upon a white beach.”
Source: The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time
“To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.”
“To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor, it's the work that matters.”
“To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.”
Source: Collected Works
“To me, the mark of a truly great sporting venue has never been what it sounds like or how it feels when the stands are packed. That's easy. Even the most generic cookie-cutter stadium or arena feels electric when the game is big, the lights are on, and the crowd is amped. The real measure of a ballpark's character is how the place feels when it's empty. When the only noises to be heard are produced by the occasional breeze that slips through the concourse. It rattles the ropes on the empty center-field flagpoles. It pushes a stray plastic cup around beneath the feet of the box seats. And if you listen closely enough, that wind carries on it the whispers of the ghosts. The athletes who played between the lines, their toes in the dirt where only those who compete are allowed to roam.
During my career in sports media, I've heard their voices at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Darlington Raceway. I've heard them at Lambeau Field and the Rose Bowl. I've heard them at old Boston Garden and Augusta National. And the morning of Thursday, March 3, 1994, I heard them at McCormick Field. Cobb, Gehrig, Dizzy Dean, Hank Greenberg, Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Willie Stargell. From the Hall of Famers to a thousand minor leaguers whose names no one remembers. I swear, they were all there that morning to welcome us into the little mountain ballpark that they'd helped build.”
Source: Welcome to the Circus of Baseball: A Story of the Perfect Summer at the Perfect Ballpark at the Perfect Time
“To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”
“To me, the meaning of a human life is to be happy. It's to achieve happiness right now, it's to make sure you're happy in the future.
And if some people on YouTube try to have a message to give people, I guess that mine is: do whatever you have to do to be happy.”
“To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary.”
“To me the most important thing is getting into a studio and making an album that is 12 or 14 amazing songs, getting up onstage, and making people happy by livening the rock.”
“To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.”
“To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.”
Source: The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
“To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot.”
“To me the Nobel Peace laureates should not be hosted by a State Department that is continuing with war, removing basic civil liberties and human rights and international law and then talking about peace to young people. That's a double standard.”
“To me the notion that Palestinians are actually Jews is, I think, quite revelatory and very radical and a possible bridge that has been ignored, I think, in this entire controversy and there's ample evidence to support it.”
“To me the Olympic spirit embodies the magic of competition, hard work and coming to a point in your career when you're around the best athletes in the world, and having the whole world watching.”
“To me the one basking in infinite glory is you; the one is fallen from grace is also you. What matters is 'you' and not the state of you.”
Source: Heaven Official's Blessing
“To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.”
“To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.”
“To me, the pain of failing is nothing compared to the pain of never trying.”
Source: Successful New Year!: The 52 Week Inspirational Planner That Will Change Your Life Forever
“To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate in.”
“To me, the political right appears as a largely unexplored country inhabited by a pantheon of brilliant black scholars whose works do not "matter" to a left-leaning academy that chooses racial hypocrisy over intellectual diversity.”
Source: Stones of Contention
“To me the purpose of life is to enjoy it! It's to enjoy the gift, and to make sure that other people have an opportunity to enjoy the gift.”
“To me the question is always this: if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, "Your next book will never be published - would you still write it?" If the answer is yes, the book is worth writing.”
“To me the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.”
“To me the question right now is: How do I close that first three-quarters of the achievement gap, education gap, wealth gap? What gives me the best chance to do that? And I'm pretty darn sure that if America is a just society and treating people well right now, irrespective of past wrongs, that I'm going to close a big chunk of that gap. I've seen it.”