T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The drops can fill the glass; similarly, little contributions and donations can save and fill one's life.”
“The drops of rain let them fall
I want to remain thirsty...”
“The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.”
“The drought came with the volcano. Street lamps frowned through ash-made dark. Homes turned into hills with chimneys peeking out the summits. We hummed as we trudged through the wreckage, until our hums
turned into songs. We didn’t know what else to do. Tears wouldn’t water the grass. Cries wouldn’t call the birds home.”
Source: Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems
“The drought was the very worst when the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst.”
“The Drowned Gods makes men," old Aaron Redhand said, "thousands of years ago." "But it's men who make crowns.”
“The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.”
Source: Mr. Mulliner Speaking
“The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.”
“The drug dealer leaned forward and covered his mouth conspiratorily with the back of his hand. In a voice softer than a gust of wind, he said: ‘Got some new merch, though. High tech, top of the line. Muy experimental. Packs quite the punch they say, and hits you like a brick wall, espiritualmente,’ he pushed three fingers together and planted them a kiss. ‘Real sweet. Un dragón muy poderoso.’
‘Any... particular side-side-side-effects?’ Mario scratched his chin, thinking back on his aggresive nosebleeds.
‘Not a dicky bird,’ affirmed the dealer. ‘This stuff’s cleaner than la cocina de tu abuela. Mind you, it does call for some weird shit, no doubt about it. And you gotta watch yourself for sharp table corners and the lot, cause you WILL be tripping.”
Source: The Underworld Rhapsody
“The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.”
“The drug education currently provided broadly amounts to ‘take drugs and you will die’. This lie is so obvious that no-one takes it seriously.”
Source: The Honest Drug Book: A Chemical & Botanical Journey Through The Legal High Years
“The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the drug of schizophrenia down, and I want to put down the stigma surrounding its label.”
Source: Second Alibi: The Banality of Life
“The drug ketamine, used as a 'dissociative' anesthetic, can produce subjective reports of conscious awareness outside the body, as can various other psychoactive drugs.”
“The drug lord is on the run. His name is El Chapo. Donald Trump is in a Twitter feud with this Mexican drug lord. It's historic - the first time Americans have ever sided with a Mexican drug lord.”
“The drug lulled her toward a dreamless oblivion, but she fought back—clinging to the one memory that could shine a tiny spot of light in the thick, inky haze. A pair of beautiful aquamarine eyes.
Fitz’s eyes. Her first friend in her new life. Her first friend ever.”
Source: Keeper of the Lost Cities
“The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.”
“The drug of choice in the modern age is levity. We want everything to be light and bubbly. We just want to feel good.”
“The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes, they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need.”
“The drug problem’ cannot be understood without a critical examination of the language and narratives of underpinning the explanatory models invoked to prove that there is a 'drug problem.”
“The drug problem is in the United States, not in Mexico. It's a demand problem and that is to be dealt with here, and it is not being dealt with. It's been shown over and over that prevention and treatment are far more cost effective than police action, out-of-country action, border control, and so on.”
“The drug smuggling today had, as its godparents, the bootleggers nearly a hundred years ago. The syndicates, the systems, the psyches were created back then.”
Source: Glass Houses
“The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war machine is a cent not spent on reversing the social policies that have destroyed the cities, nourished racism, and laid the groundwork for crack culture.”
Source: No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays
“The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.”
“The Drug War is an addiction, really.”
“The drug war isn't what purports to be. If you look at the whole operation and the tie-in between the American intelligence agencies, these so-called "assets", the spies on the payroll of the CIA, and drug dealers. Don't let members of Congress and the media get away with this complacency and distortion!”
“The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.”
Source: the female eunuch
“The drugs are just growing all around the country, and so, it all feeds into problems that are not just urban, but are just spread throughout the country.”
“The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.”
“The drugs were mind-dulling and unacceptable. Like an indecisive college freshman, I audited, without participating in, a few group therapy sessions. They felt like a violation of both privacy and good taste.”
Source: Horseman's Tale: A Novel
“The drugs were the most important thing to me.”
“The drugstore is a wonderful place to see all manner of ailments.”
“The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.”
Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960
“The drum is surely the lord of music, is it not?”
“The drum is the heart of music. The saxophone can play and then rest, as can all of them except the drums; the drummer keeps going - he can't afford to stop.”
“The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow?”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“The drum that calls many dancers soon forgets it's own rhythm.”
“The drum to which we march reveals the conductor to whom we’re listening.”
“The drum-fire of propaganda that the Fed is manning the ramparts against the menace of inflation brought about by others is nothing less than a deceptive shell game. The culprit solely responsible for inflation, the Federal Reserve, is continually engaged in raising a hue-and-cry about 'inflation,' for which virtually everyone else in society seems to be responsible. What we are seeing is the old ploy by the robber who starts shouting 'Stop, thief!' and runs down the street pointing ahead at others.”
“The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.”
“The drummer is definitely the hidden hero of a band they really hold the music together. It's actually a really difficult job, and as I said before they're very much hidden, they're not the celebrity, they're not the front man so they get the best of both worlds really”
“The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.”
“The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.”
“The drumming helps a lot when I'm producing songs or writing songs. My knowledge of drums helps more in that aspect, (although) I don't know, man; I'm not great at any of them.”
“The drumming was increasing in tempo, building to a climax I didn't understand. It had been so long since I'd seen a bare face that looked even vaguely human. His clothes- all black, all finely made- were cut close enough to his body that I could see how magnificent he was. As if he'd been moulded from the night itself.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“The drums are demanding and yet he never misses a beat.”
Source: Shipwreck Girl
“The drums are slamming, rhythmic, exciting. As the minutes pass, it feels to me like we are collectively pulling the year 2004 toward us. Like we have roped it with our music, and now we are hauling it across the night sky like it's a massive fishing net, brimming with all our unknown destinies. And what a heavy net it is, indeed, carrying as it does all the births, deaths, tragedies, wars, love stories, inventions, transformations and calamities that are destined for all of us this coming year.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“The drums are what drives the whole thing. It's the backbone of the song.”
“The drums being heard are the voices of the people. We know what we want but some fellows who think they know what's best for us organise themselves for us year in year out. Now every legislature is compromised and with no balls to Impeach the President Now.”
“The drums have hogged a lot of the credit. We're as much -- or more -- *cymbal* players, as we are drummers.”
“The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.”