T Quotes
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“The Italians are not passionate: passion has deep reserves. They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of any sort.”
Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
“The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.”
Source: An Italian Journey
“The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.”
“The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.”
“The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede.
[The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]”
“The Italians have had 2,000 years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place!”
“The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.”
“The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing”
“The Italians live well. They have problems, like all countries, but they are well-dressed, the women are pretty.”
“The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.”
Source: Curiosities of literature
“The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.”
“The Italians seem to have a better attitude with kids and the food is great!”
“The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.”
“The Italians were getting so accustomed to tragedies and disasters that their appetite for sensation was becoming jaded.”
Source: The Neapolitan Streak
“The itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things. Let them and leave them alone--they'll survive for a few more thousand years, more or less, without any glorification from us.”
Source: Desert Solitaire
“The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.”
“The itch of scribbling.”
“The item of clothing that makes us feel powerful is the one that makes us feel confident and self-assured, that magically makes us look our best in all kinds of circumstances.”
“The items people own reveal something about the owners. Every quaint item that a person selects to surround themselves with has a basic quiddity, the essence, or inherent nature of things. As a people, we assign a value meaning not only to the things that we presently possess, but also to the items destined for one generation to hand down to the next generation.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“The ivory issue worries me more and more. I am not forgetting any of the considerations that Your Majesty has deigned to point out to me, but commerce will want to be reassured as to the limits of competition.”
“The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.”
“THE IVY GREEN
Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green,
That creepeth o’er ruins old!
Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold.
The wall must be crumbled, the stone decayed,
To pleasure his dainty whim;
And the mouldering dust that years have made,
Is a merry meal for him.
Creeping where no life is seen,
A rare old plant is the Ivy green.
Fast he stealeth on, though he wears no wings,
And a staunch old heart has he.
How closely he twineth, how tight he clings
To his friend the huge Oak Tree!
And slily he traileth along the ground,
And his leaves he gently waves,
As he joyously hugs and crawleth round
The rich mould of dead men’s graves.
Creeping where grim death has been,
A rare old plant is the Ivy green.
Whole ages have fled and their works decayed,
And nations have scattered been;
But the stout old Ivy shall never fade,
From its hale and hearty green.
The brave old plant in its lonely days,
Shall fatten upon the past;
For the stateliest building man can raise,
Is the Ivy’s food at last.
Creeping on where time has been,
A rare old plant is the Ivy green.”
Source: The Pickwick Papers
“The Ivy League has an established history of mercury poisoned employees.”
“The Ivy League I am familiar with is riddled with incompetence.”
“The Ivy League is developing a sad history of preventable mercury poisoned employees that has led to death in at least one case.”
“The ivy which had hid my princely trunk,
And suck’d my verdure out on ’t.”
Source: The Tempest
“The iWatch will fill a gaping hole in the Apple ecosystem. It will facilitate and coordinate not only the activities of all the other computers and devices we use, but a wide array of devices to come.”
“The IWW [Industrial Workers of the World] has been accused of pushing women to the front. This is not true. Rather, the women have not been kept in back, and so they have naturally moved to the front.”
“The J-Curve consists of two miracles: the wonder of humility bringing us down and the wonder of the Spirit lifting us up.”
“The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.”
“The jabroni beating, pie eating, trail-blazin', eyebrow raisin', all around, smack it down People's Champ, The Rock!”
“The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“The Jackass movies are honestly some of the best movies I've ever seen. I laugh so hard at them. Those guys are geniuses. If they had grown up with a different group of people, they could've been performance artists at Bard College, and people would be writing papers about them.”
“The jackass was lying in the road. He was paralyzed. His spine had been severed by gunfire. He had been moving. His lungs were filling with blood. Some of the blood ran out his nostrils and on the cobbleblocks.
~ The Jackass in The Road”
Source: Land of the Story Tellers: 24 Stories and 7 Poems
“The jackasses at Elections Canada are out of control.”
“The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,-- In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.”
“The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.”
“The Jackson 5 shook off the last song and readied for another sortie. The smallest Jackson movement, every tremble, elicited another wave of squeals from the Garden.
"I'd like to talk to y'all tonight," Michael said, "about the blues."
Carney chuckled--the kid was ten.
"The blues?" Marlon or maybe Jermaine asked.
"Yeah, the blues. Don't nobody have the blues like me. I may be young, but I know what it's all about."
The boys bit into "Who's Lovin' You" and the building rattled. The girls screamed. There were rumors about guys the mob had rubbed out and buried in the concrete foundation below. The noise would've woken them up. Carney shouldn't have laughed. What ten-year-old black child didn't know the blues?”
Source: Crook Manifesto
“The Jacksonian era is generally talked about in terms of individualism, and the development of free market capitalism, and Victorian prudery. It was shocking to find a parallel history to that - a bunch of Americans with very different priorities. I stumbled on to these people, and then became completely fixated on them. The question that drove me was: how did these reasonable people adopt these extremely unreasonable ideas?”
“The Jacobeans had a sure grasp of catastrophe. They understood not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good. I felt they cut right to the heart of the matter, to the essential rottenness of the world.”
Source: The Secret History
“The Jacobins were the standard bearers of the left. Liberals are not on the left. They are in the center, and often trending right with their hatred of the State and any possibility of State social engineering on the grand scale. It has been rightly observed that the hallmark of liberalism is wanting the “thing without the thing”, as Slavoj Zizek famously put it. The liberals want war without war, revolution without revolution, drugs without any of the downside of drugs, coffee without caffeine. They want a situation that inevitably leads to violence, without the violence. They immediately condemn the violence even though violence was implicit in the entire project from the get-go.”
Source: The Mandarin Effect: The Crisis of Meaning
“The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning.”
Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic
“The jaguar does not care what happens on the African savannah but is very concerned with what happens in the Brazilian rain forests.”
“The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.”
“The JahWad is truth and light. It’s straightforward. It is the people who complicate it to suit their interests.”
“The jail thing is very, very present in all of my work... Sometimes not very frontally. The jail is coming from the camps, because my mother was in the camps, and she internalized that and gave it to me.”
“The jails are full of fearless characters.”
Source: "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller
“The Jain religion in India teaches that because all life is essentially interrelated and interconnected, all living beings should be considered sacred and be respected. This belief forms the basis of the doctrine of ahimsa, which has been translated into English variously as "reverence for life," "nonviolence," and "dynamic compassion."”
Source: Sacred Trees
“The Jake Gyllenhaal workout planstarts with growing long, long hairgorgeous greasy locks and then washing every day.Wash, shampoo, then condition. Washing works the biceps and then the triceps by conditioning. And vigorously rubbing all of your body with soap really defines the abs and the pectoral muscles. And if you do squats while you're bathing - that's it!”
“The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.”
Source: The Grace Abbott Reader