Though Quotes

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

Can clearly say Vegemite is horrible! Like tryin' new stuff though.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

The Japanese campaign involves therefore two great uncertainties; first, whether Russia will come in though we think that will be all right; and second, when and how S-1 will resolve itself.

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.

Even though they won't finish in the top four this season, they will still be of the contenders next season.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

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

Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.