Though Quotes

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.

Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995.

As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though you can ask where the frame is. A move that feels tiny can be huge, and vice versa.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

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

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

Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it.

Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that.

I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.

He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture.

Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.

I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.