Though Quotes

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.

The salvation of the elect was as certain before His advent, though accomplished by it, as afterwards.

Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.

The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.

It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

I love to go get fireworks, even though some of them are illegal.

It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder.

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.

Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited.

Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap.

I like people who don't accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I'm not sure how much I'd have liked to meet them. I admire people who aren't circumscribed by circumstance.

Let justice be done, though the world perish.

I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.

It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.

There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS.

Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends toward the luxury market.

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.

Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.

I don't know if I want to be a big star though.

I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.

For me, though, the fun is over when I get the job.

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.

I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer.

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.