T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.”
“The hackers who hacked into Sony have leaked the upcoming script for the new James Bond movie. Some of the executives said the news left them shaken but not stirred.”
“The had met at a party. Falling in love surprised them both.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“The Hades Moon drew first blood.”
Source: Cake in the Blackbird Stew
“The Hadley Street Dream is a tribute to making a vision come to life. My father built a compound on a dessert city block, he saw something in that space we couldn't see. It was years later the album was born right there on Hadley St. He built the studio I started recording the album at.”
“The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.”
“The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he.”
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop
“The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others, wretched hovels by the side of stately colonnades, the rags of indigence blended with the ensigns of opulence; in a word, the most useless profusion in the midst of the most urgent wants.”
“The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.”
“The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.”
“The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!”
“The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.”
“The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat about washing my hair.”
“The hair I'd yanked too many times to count shone in the sunlight, trailing down her back like liquid obsidian.”
Source: Until the Mountains Fall
“The hair is really a way to push me even farther out of just what people know me for. I don't really know what people know me for.”
“The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.”
Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther
“The hair is the richest ornament of women.”
“The hair of his face, on the contrary, carroty and flaming, resembled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line of the lip; while, no matter how close he shaved, fiery metallic gleams passed, when he moved his head, over the surface of his cheeks.”
Source: The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad: 20 Novels & 26 Short Stories (Including Memoirs, Essays & Letters in One Single Edition): Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists: Heart of Darkness, The Duel, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes
“The hairflip is something that just can’t be taught”
“The hairs stand up on the back of my neck at certain music.”
“The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.”
“The Haiti that has been waiting for help and not moving no longer exists. Enough handouts; we need hands up. Enough aid; we need trade.”
“The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.”
“The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the nut of it was: 'The season of pain is never over until the sky begins to cry.”
“The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.”
“The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative, the halberd is defensive.”
Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.
“The halcyon days of childhood, a time when everything lay open before him, when the most minor episodes could be construed as events and every chance encounter … gave rise to fresh insights.”
“The Hale [telescope] is a refinery for light.”
“The half-circle of blinding turquoise ocean is this love’s primal scene. That this blue exists makes my life a remarkable one, just to have seen it. To have seen such beautiful things. To find oneself placed in their midst. Choiceless. I returned there yesterday and stood again upon the mountain.”
Source: Bluets
“The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.”
Source: Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering
“The half is greater than the whole.”
“The half-life of caffeine -- that is, the time taken for the concentration in your bloodstream to drop by 50 per cent -- is between three and seven hours, with an average of about four hours. Therefore, if you drink several cups of strong coffee during your harassed working day, your blood will still contain substantial amounts of caffeine when you go to bed several hours later.”
“The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.”
Source: On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures
“The half moon disappeared behind a cloud, casting the scene into darkness. The silence between the boy and girl expanded. It filled with memories of promises made, words that the world had broken".”
Source: The Mermaid from Jeju
“The half moon on the bank of the river's devotion. That's the stab wound, born from the killer emotion”
“The half-moon westers low, my love,
And the wind brings up the rain;
And wide apart lie we, my love,
And seas between the twain.
I know not if it rains, my love,
In the land where you do lie;
And oh, so sound you sleep, my love,
You know no more than I.”
Source: A Shropshire Lad
“The half-mourning siren of the ambulance, like the funeral wail of the conch, upbraids the dozing guards at every door.”
“The half-baked sermon causes spiritual indigestion”
“The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying colours, or lose many of her laurels.”
Source: Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition
“The half-human was the hottest thing he'd ever gotten anywhere near. And he'd cozied up to a lightning strike once or twice before.”
Source: Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“The half-life of companies is shrinking. So in the same ease in which you can start a company today to disrupt an incumbent, you have to also realize that somebody will do that to you as well just as easily. So if you're not just going to get on top but stay on top, that will require a real prepared mind across many companies.”
“The half-life of love is forever.”
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
“The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.”
“The Halifaxes weren’t a superstitious couple — they were the kind of couple that caused superstition.”
Source: Hotel Miramar: An Old Castle Novel
“The hall door, beside which Rob worked that dreary noon, looked very old; its weathered brown paint was carved by long black lines left by leaks in the porch.”
Source: Blazing Night
“The hall erupted into punches, blows, and kicks. The dancing ended but the band played on. The older men escorted the women from the premises and so ended a bloody-good night.”
Source: Jack the Ripper: The Long Arm of the Law
“The Hall of Fame ceremonies are on the thirty-first and thirty-second of July.”
“The Hall of Fame has strong people.”
“The Hall Of Fame Is Built On Quicksand”
“The Hall of Fame is forever, baby!”