A Quotes
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“A turtleneck is about sophistication.”
“A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil.”
“A tutte quelle persone che desiderando cambiare rotta
si sono sentite dire:>
Invece ce l'hanno fatta.”
Source: Cambio di rotta. Stepsover. Dall'Italia all'America: il giro del mondo che ha cambiato la nostra vita
“A tutti gli uomini artistici del passato dico:
è il mio turno di romanticizzare me stessa.”
Source: Spiraleggiante: Raccolta di poesie
“A tutti piace predicare, anche se sappiamo insegnare soltanto ciò che non vale la pena di imparare.”
Source: Orgoglio e Pregiudizio
“A TV evening with the right person can be more erotic than sex with the wrong one.”
“A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.”
“A TV show is an open universe, whereas a film is more of a closed universe. No disrespect to movies, there's just a lot of artifice in closing out emotional storylines after 90 minutes.”
“A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it.”
“A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits my [voice] really well. You feel their frustration, anger and fear, and then, when the reveal happens, their sense of dread or horror, or whatever it is, and I like to paint with those colors.”
“A tweet a day keeps writer's block away.”
“A twenty dollar watch shows the same time as a two hundred dollar watch, and also it keeps you healthy, by not conditioning your mind with a ping every few minutes.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“A twenty dollar watch shows the same time as a two hundred watch, and also it keeps you healthy, by not conditioning your mind with a ping every few minutes.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“A twenty-five-cent word sprang unbidden into my mind: “noctilucent.” The word described the glow of a cat’s eyes at night, but it also seemed right for the woman in the photograph. She was a moonbeam turned flesh, pale with white-blond hair and wide-set light green eyes. Beautiful was not an appropriate word; she looked otherworldly. She looked impossible.”
Source: Magic for Liars
“A twenty-six-year-old heart has already begun to grow a shell; the shell may have some cracks and fissures, but by the age of thirty-six any remaining fissures would have been sealed.”
Source: The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
“A twenty-two room castle can be awfully lonely place for just one person.
- Nico”
Source: You Are Beautiful And You Are Alone: The Biography Of Nico
“A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.”
Source: Conversations with Ian McEwan
“A twig snaps. I whirl around just in time to see a flash in the shadows of the forest. Or is it? My heart rate quickens. Maybe it’s my mind playing tricks–for real this time and not because everyone is telling me that's what’s happening.”
Source: The Fang and the Flower
“A Twin Flame Requires you to Detach from Society's Mindset. A Twin Flame Requires you to be alone with Yourself. A Twin Flame Requires you to Master Yourself.”
“A twin knows exactly when the other one is spitting up, but that’s all they know about anything.”
“A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: "Ancient walls that sing the distant hours.”
Source: The Distant Hours: A Novel
“A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.”
Source: The wit of Peter Ustinov
“A twinge of wonderment that might charm the most cynical of New York dance fans…They raise the bar, and then they jump over it.”
“A Twinkle In The Eye,
Is an Angels Reflective Smile”
“A twisted countenance overcame her in death. Her cheeks and mouth were deeply sunken. Liver mortis dotted her face and hands. Moreover, the process of decomposition was so advanced, it was impossible to expect that the funeral guests remain seated, praying their rosary before her open coffin.”
Source: When the Time Comes
“A twisted, pale figure writhing in agony, chest bare and hideous. Tight, rigid cords of sickly green veins webbed across the boy’s body and limbs, like ropes under his skin. Purplish bruises covered the kid, red hives, bloody scratches. His bloodshot eyes bulged, darting back and forth.”
Source: The Maze Runner
“A twisted spine condemned him to walk with a limp, but as he said famously, “I do not limp when I read, nor when I write.”
Source: Fire & Blood
“A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.”
“A two-state settlement along the lines proposed by Barak and Clinton in 2000 is unlikely to come about or, if reached, to last long. It will not bring tranquility to the Middle East. And yet the two-state idea—the idea of a state for the Jews and a state for the Palestinian Arabs—remains the only sound moral and political basis for a solution offering a modicum of justice and, hence, a chance for peace, for both peoples.”
Source: One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict
“A two-year-old doesn’t know much, but it knows when its world has just been turned upside down.”
Source: Shadowplay
“A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway.”
“A two-career couple with children is a complex, sensitive piece of machinery with lots of moving parts. Anything less than total cooperation will throw it out of whack and shut it down. A couple can wind up paying the ultimate price for trying to have it all - losing it all.”
Source: I Can't Believe I Said That!
“A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE”
Source: Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years
“A two-hour movie tends to be a plot-delivery device; you tend to have to introduce all the characters, say what the goal is, and then get there with a setback, but that's not really how life is or what a story necessarily wants to be.”
“A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has left an extraordinary amount of room for economic inequality, violence and male dominance.”
“A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island.”
“A two-speed Europe will not be a strong Europe. The idea of making decisions and policies in a narrow circle, disregarding smaller EU members, will make it hard to engage them to commit to a common policy, which will weaken the union.”
“A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.”
“A two-year-old can be taught to curb his aggressions completely if the parents employ strong enough methods, but the achievement of such control at an early age may be bought at a price which few parents today would be willing to pay. The slow education for control demands much more parental time and patience at the beginning, but the child who learns control in this way will be the child who acquires healthy self-discipline later.”
Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood
“A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.”
“A ty, synku, do jakiego świętego byś się modlił, gdybyś chciał się zabić?”
Source: Tkanki miękkie
“A type of love where a guy takes a girl to the old bookstore and talks about nothing but dead poets.”
“A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.”
“A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.”
“A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.”
“A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.”
“A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'”
“A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.”
“A typical day for me is I get up at 6:00, the coffeemaker goes on automatically and the computer gets turned on. I pour a cup of coffee, listen to Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, and then I write.”
“A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.”