T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.”
“The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.”
Source: Technology, Management and Society
“The fewer desires, the more peace.”
“The fewer expectations you have, the better.”
“The fewer fucks you give about what you look like in bed, the better the fucks you'll have.”
“The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.”
“The fewer men, the greater share of honor.”
“The fewer moving parts, the better." "Exactly. No truer words were ever spoken in the context of engineering.”
Source: Containment
“The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.”
“The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.”
Source: Hey, wait a minute, I wrote a book
“The fewer souls who are mentally or physically challenged are the true evident examples of those not affected by the five senses of the human body.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.”
“The fewer the desires, the more peace.”
“The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.”
“The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.”
Source: The works
“The fewer the words, the better the prayer.”
Source: What Luther says: an anthology
“The fewer words a parent uses, the more aurhoritative the parent sounds & the clearer the instruction.”
“The Fey did nothing in half measures. That intensity of emotion was part of their appeal. It made them the fiercest warriors, the staunchest allies, the most passionate lovers. The most devoted mates.”
Source: Crown of Crystal Flame
“The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.”
“The Fey's Captive by Stewart Stafford
Sprite music in moonlit sway,
Her song turned azaleas grey,
A haunting lilt that carried far;
Charmed ear to shimmering star.
Hornpipe down, melody went on,
Lovelight flickered, then it shone,
Claimed me then on yearly shore,
Dragged me behind the fairy door.
An enchanted hostage kept there,
Gossamer glowed her flaxen hair,
Made me pledge to be her slave,
This regal man, reduced to knave.
A year and a day passed, comet swift,
My sentence over, her parting gift,
Conditions met by kith and kin,
Woke to bedroom light with a grin.
© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved”
“The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.”
“The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.”
“The fiat-based system has produced enormous global imbalances that are straining the global economy. Ultimately, I think the whole thing gives way and what returns is what existed prior to the dollar standard, and that is a global gold standard, which is the only thing that really works.”
“The Fibonacci Sequence turns out to be the key to understanding how nature designs... and is... a part of the same ubiquitous music of the spheres that builds harmony into atoms, molecules, crystals, shells, suns and galaxies and makes the Universe sing.”
Source: The Seven Mysteries Of Life: An Exploration of Science and Philosophy – A Quest for Knowledge and Discovery Across Interconnected Disciplines
“The fickle populace always change with the prince.”
“The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.”
“The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't know about, and what I don't know about is the everyday, normal world.”
“The fiction I've written and published is certainly inflected by the work of authors I was reading or translating at the time. One of my methods for developing my own voice in fiction, a process I am taking very slowly and deliberately, is through these very intense encounters with certain writers. Strength and power in fiction is being able to resist these intoxicating voices, recognizing that they are the signatures of other writers and not one's own.”
“The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.”
Source: Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver
“The fiction is like the art, in making stuff out of nothing, in creating a hyper-reality to have an experience. If it's strong enough, and your spell is strong enough, then you become, like, ultra-magnetic and then everything comes to you.”
“The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.”
“The fiction is the way I react in my mind, versus how I have reacted in real life.”
Source: Midnight Kisses
“The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.”
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.”
Source: The Idler: With Additional Essays
“The fiction reader is a nonconformist, a rebel, and the reason for his rebellion and nonconformity is the unbearable straitjacket of human life: the fact that we have only one life -- meaning, there is no other after death -- and also that we have only one life -- meaning, we cannot be more than one person at the same time. "I read fiction," says Philip Roth ... "to be free from my own suffocatingly narrow perspective on life and to be lured into imaginative sympathy with a fully developed narrative point of view not my own." Reading fiction is an experience of guided imagination, or perhaps an experience in which another's imagination (an imagination of greater richness, greater penetration, greater associative capacity than ours) leads us by the hand to places where we have not been. We read to leave our attention and our conscience in the hands of someone who will take them to good places, we read to be possessed by that way of knowing the world that is only available through the language of fiction.
--from "The Licentiate's Children," translated from the Spanish by Phil Klay.”
Source: El arte de la distorsión
“The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That was always a hard one for me. And I always had this spastic tendency to wrap up a story before I'd seen it the whole way through, a sort of writer's pre-ejaculatory tendency: "The End!"”
“The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.”
“The fiction writer is, first and foremost, an emotionalist.”
“The fictional characters we love stamp their names on our hearts. They show us how to fight our battles, how to change, how to make it to page three hundred a different person than we were on page one.”
Source: The Book Witch
“The fictional exploits of buccaneering men had lost their magic for him. Besides, there were other pirates on view in Tilbury that spring.
One, unredeemed by any amnesty, hung from the gibbet at Tilbury Point, tugged at by a brisk breeze off the river. His body had been bound in chains, daubed with tar and encased in a cage, denied Christian burial as a warning to the living of the hideousness of death.
It did not have quite that effect on Nathan. "It's Easter," he said to Hardcastle.
"A week since," said Hardcastle.
"When they went to the tomb to rewrap Christ's body . . ."
Harcastle threw Toby in the air and caught him repeatedly, making the child laugh and laugh.
". . . except that it had gone . . ." said Nathan.
"Raised to glory," agreed Harcastle, rubbing noses with the baby.
". . . out into the garden."
Suddenly it seemed to him that the tarry skull of the pirate on the gibbet might not be shouting a warning after all -- that his decaying corpse might no longer be suffering the torments of the gibbet as his executioners like to suggest with cage and chain and padlock. There were amnesties other than the King's.
The man might simply be singing: singing and dancing in the bright, brittle Easter sunshine, held up in midair not by chains but by invisible hands or on invisible shoulders.”
Source: The Pirate's Son
“The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.”
Source: One Writer's Beginnings
“The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps.”
Source: Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey
“The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.”
“The fictioneer labors under the constraint of plausibility; his inventions must stay within the capacity of the audience to accept and believe. God, of course, working with facts, faces no limitation.”
“The fictitious men in romance novels are as fake and imaginary as vampires. They're not real.”
Source: Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends: Honest Relationship Advice for Women
“The fictitious worlds created for kids are nearly bereft of female presence. It's sending a very clear message from the beginning that women and girls do not have half of the adventures, that they're not as important. We're teaching kids that girls and women don't take up half the space in the world.”
“The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.”
Source: The Summer Without Men: A Novel
“The Fiddle Creek Steakhouse [in Stephenville, TX] started selling what they called an 'Alien Secretion' shot: ¾ shot of Malibu rum, ¾ shot of melon or Midori liqueur, ½ ounce of sweet and sour mix, ½ ounce of pineapple juice.”
Source: Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable-And Couldn't
“The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.”
Source: Man Meets Dog
“The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.”
Source: Man Meets Dog