T Quotes
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“The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses. A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.”
Source: The mortgaged heart
“The dimensions of the radio are truly to be treasured.”
Source: See You on the Radio
“The dimensions of video game characters, even when they're scanned from real people, are beefed up with exaggerated proportions in games like Def Jam: Fight for NY to give them more pop.”
“The diminishing impetus in reading is a deliberate attempt to keep you poor, but you have got a choice.”
“The diminution of money in one country, and its increase in another, do not operate on the price of one commodity only, but on the prices of all.”
“The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.”
“The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see people in their difference and specialness.”
Source: The Liberal Imagination
“The dimly lit room only has light from an annoying alarm clock, which reminds us that it will soon be time for work.
I hit the rest button again as the thought creeps into our heads that perhaps a sick day might be in order.”
“The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to one pitch of definition and sometimes to another, so as to see down into different depths through the great millstone of the world.”
“The dimple in his left cheek was ironic-it gave the impression that he was sweet as a cupcake. (Dark City Lights)”
“The dimple on her left cheek that appeared when she smiled was more valuable than the stars in the sky.
She turned to me and said, “You open too, Aiden. What are you looking at?” she said and paused.
“I’m looking at you...”
Source: Hopeful Pessimist
“The dimples spread across his face again and Megan couldn’t help but melt a little”
Source: Sheltered
“The Dimwit's Guide to the Female Mind might assist your efforts in understanding human females. But it must be pointed out that this subject can be a dangerous adventure and should be undertaken with extreme caution. After all, human males have been trying to understand their females for generations, and most of the time they come away from these encounters looking like someone stuck their tails into an electric socket.”
Source: Marked in Flesh
“The din of politicians speechifying about the war, the faux moral posturing of opinion-makers who claim to speak in the name of 'the troops,' everything that Iraq has come to represent in the American imagination - it all melts away in the 115-degree heat. What's left is the machinery of a war that, having been called into being by civilians, no longer bears a relation to anything they say.”
“The dining hall in our section of campus was like something out of an Ayn Rand novel: big, utilitarian, and impersonal.”
Source: Beware of Love in Technicolor
“The dining room has been transformed into a fairy garden this evening. Flowers are strewn across the long table--- magnolias, anemones, and roses--- paired with hydrangea-and-peony centerpieces. Long taper candles flicker over the display, complemented by the remaining sunlight. A feast sprawls out from one end of the table to the other, a medley of some of my favorites--- crab cioppino with bright tomatoes and red wine, garlic bread flecked with parsley, linguine and clams swimming in broth, seared abalone presented in its opalescent shell, fresh oysters on a bed of ice.”
Source: Dance of the Starlit Sea
“The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.”
“The dining room is a building; the bathroom is a building. If we scatter this single-program architecture inside of a domestic environment, we can link an interior urbanism in a way similar to a village or a township of tiny houses.”
“The dining room overflows with love-made dishes-smoked turkey, collards, mac and cheese, okra and tomatoes.”
Source: Going Down Home with Daddy
“The dining-room was curiously impersonal, like all places where people eat,—perhaps because food is our chief link with the common chaos of matter rolling about us.”
Source: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
“The dining-room was in the good taste of the period. It was very severe. There was a high dado of white wood and a green paper on which were etchings by Whistler in neat black frames. The green curtains with their peacock design, hung in straight lines, and the green carpet, in the pattern of which pale rabbits frolicked among leafy trees, suggested the influence of William Morris. There was blue delft on the chimneypiece. At that time there must have been five hundred dining-rooms in London decorated in exactly the same manner. It was chaste, artistic, and dull.”
Source: The Moon and Sixpence
“The dining table had been decorated with jars full of flowers of varying colors, heights, scents. Caladium, salvia, violas, snapdragons, or "snaps" as Glory called them. I'd learned their names---and forgotten half a dozen others as Glory and I had strolled through the garden earlier.
Votive candles set into pale-pink glass holders flickered along the table runner. The glass- and silverware sparkled in the early evening sunlight, while dust motes floated lazily through the air. The roast chicken and whipped potatoes, pull-apart rolls, green bean salad, and cucumbers and onions soaked in Italian dressing had been consumed.”
Source: In the Middle of Hickory Lane
“The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed.”
“The dinner Parrin serves- vichyssoise, squab, rice pilaf, green salad, chocolate-orange mousse- is all very "of the moment" and delicious, as I knew it would be.”
Source: A Place at the Table
“The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.”
Source: Getting Personal: Selected Writings
“The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.”
“The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.”
“The dinner-table is often the terrain of critical conversations, for it is there one has the better of one's interlocutor. There is no escape without scandal, there is no turning aside without self-betrayal. To invite a person to dinner is to place them under observation. Every dining-room is a temporary prison where politeness chains the guests to the laden board.”
Source: Hands of Orlac
“The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.”
Source: Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium
“The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.”
Source: Mardi: And a Voyage Thither
“The dinosaurs are remember only by their bones. What will we be remembered for with humanity?”
“The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?”
“The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.”
“The dinosaurs died so that chat rooms may flourish”
Source: Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
“The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers - and thermonuclear weapons.”
“The dinosaurs invented Jesus to test our confidence in science.”
“The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?”
“The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.”
“The Diné are children of the sun. They are rugged and graceful people. They love the radiance of color and silver, the purity of nature, and the speed of horses. They have a gift for adaptation and creativity. They do everything with spontaneity and flair.”
Source: Dine: A Tribute to the Navajo People
“The Dionysian is no picnic.”
Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
“The Dior heritage is so broad. It has a strong presence in the work. So, when people have to define it quickly, it's, like, the Bar jacket and the movement and the luxury and the Belle Époque and so much more.”
“The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our society, and how government is silenced.”
Source: Dying from Dioxin: A Citizen's Guide to Reclaiming Our Health and Rebuilding Democracy
“The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.”
Source: The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential messages to Congress
“The diplomatic relations start when the two sides get a bit closer to each other, but U.S and Iran, they are drifting apart.”
“The diplomatic representatives of the United States of America to other nations are almost entirely Jews.”
“The diplomatic thing for me to say is that if publishers are dressing up other authors as Terry Pratchett clones then they are doing a disservice to those authors. If they didn't dress them as clones but did something different, then those authors could be pioneering in a different sense.”
“The Dire Wolf killed the Jakes,” he said.
“Who’s this Dire Wolf?” I asked. Figured he was talking about someone he knew.
He spoke in a whisper, almost reverently. “The Dire Wolf is the curse of the Downstream People, the Arkansa. He is an evil spirit of the Quapaw.”
I sighed and shook my head, knowing how these old Indians liked to throw in a bunch of mythical tribal mumbo-jumbo and superstition to deflect blame from someone they knew. “Well, you know where I can find this Dire Wolf fella?” I asked.
“He cannot be found,” the old man said.
“Really. You have reason to believe he’s taken off to other parts?”
He said nothing for a full quarter minute, his black eyes intently on mine, searching. I could see contempt in them and a sadness. Made me nervous.
“No,” old Long Walker answered at last. “He has not departed. Now that he has awakened, he will kill again.”
Source: Dire Wolf of the Quapaw: a Jubal Smoak Mystery
“The direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive.”
“The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.”
Source: Building A Character
“The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially.”