T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.”
“The Lion will roar no longer, his life the asking price for defending his cub”
“The lion's share of my work is revision, 85%? I revise forever, combing over lines, listening and listening to them in different hours and moods so that I feel they are finally right for me.”
“The lion's share of the bear market is over, ... It's a two-part issue. Yes, the marketplace could be nasty. But there's a great deal of nastiness that's already happened in the bond market.”
“The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.”
“The lion-as proud as the diamond bright, Though the spell may be clouding that radiant light-in the death of the sun what's amiss will then mend, while the raven is dying discloses the end.”
Source: The Ruby Red Trilogy
“The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.”
“The Lionheart had arrived.”
Source: The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
“The lions are deadly when they are in silent mode.”
“The lions sing and the hills take flight.
The moon by day, and the sun by night.
Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool.
Let the Lord of Chaos rule.”
“The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.”
“The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)
“The lips know only shallow tunes”
Source: A Symphony in Sand
“The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.”
“The lips of the righteous teach many, but fools die for want of wisdom.”
“The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.”
“The lips on my upper right bicep are my girlfriend's lips. She has the most amazing lips, and I wanted to carry them around with me everywhere I go, considering I can't carry her lips physically with me. So I decided to place them in a discreet location, such as the inside part of my bicep.”
“The lipsticks that I own are steeped in sex and blood. In my collection, I have Lady Danger; Relentlessly Red; Good to Go. Cosmo tells me early on that the painted mouth is supposed to evoke the labia, voluptuous and slightly parted, and the names of my lipsticks bear this out: they are unequivocal. There are fast cars, dangers, and passion. There is fire, lust, anger poppies, roses, all of them packed into small, dark tubes.”
Source: Things That Helped: Essays
“The liquid bubbled on her tongue, and it tasted like cotton and- safety pins?”
Source: Once Upon a Broken Heart
“The liquid drops of tears that you have shed
Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl,
Advantaging their loan with interest
Of ten times double gain of happiness.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.”
“The Liquid Pantomime by Stewart Stafford
Time is life’s shareholder:
Youth’s dark angel investor,
Midlife’s white shark creditor,
The old's Arctic blood liquidator.
Debt, the fledgling's terra incognita,
Misfortune's looking glass kvetch,
Chicks for the boardroom wolf pit,
Waddling forth in immature escrow.
Margin call missives arrive at thirty,
Backstick pressures piping up,
Distressingly hostile AGM invites,
Disbelief morphs into resignation.
Cracking knees bear bankruptcy,
Written off in a balance sheet's glance,
No hibernation in a bear market,
Phased out for new stock issues daily.
© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
“The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity.”
“The liquid was delightfully warm, and I strode in until it was deep enough to swim out a few strokes and casually tread in place. Not water, but something smoother, thicker. Not oil, but something purer, thinner. Like being wrapped in warm silk. I was so busy savouring the tug of my fingers through the silvery substance that I didn't notice him until he was treading beside me.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.”
“The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.”
Source: Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories
“The liquor store sells you the same divinity, that the holy store sells you for even higher price. We'll be born again when we abolish such divinity, by baptizing the soil of society with our sacrifice.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“The Lisbon hub is important to Portugal, the country. That's not going to go away. It needs to be there. The country depends on tourism.”
“The list below begins to illustrate how different personalities can be assigned to different vocal qualities . . .
• Warm
• Loving
• Breathy
• Gravelly
• Dull
• Nasal
• Rough
• Hoarse
• Gruff
• Melodious
• Whiny
• Sultry
• Twangy
• Energetic
• Shrill”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.”
“The List is Life.”
“The list of American grievances is long: Pakistan developed nuclear weapons while promising the United States that it would not; the United States helped arm and train Mujahideen against the Soviets during the 1980s, but Pakistan chose to keep these militants well armed and sufficiently funded even after the Soviet withdrawal in 1989; and, from the American perspective, Pakistan's crackdown on terrorist groups, particularly after 9/11, has been halfhearted at best.”
“The list of fun and easily fixed brain diseases is very short.”
Source: Sleepwalk with Me: and Other Painfully True Stories
“The list of genocides committed on Earth are endless, the fact that we never learned or know about them does not mean they did not exist.”
Source: Sinless
“The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent.”
Source: Catharsis
“The list of non-democratic regimes that have seen significant reforms since 2001 is long and significant.”
“The list of photographs that I am missing while I sit on airport runways, teach classes or spend hours in the studio makes my head spin. It's almost as if I can actually sense all the great pictures that I'm missing at a given moment. It's times like those that remind me to be very productive when I do get behind-the-camera time.”
“The list of potential candidates for Julius Caesar is quite large. You could go, "Well, he's a Caesar." Idi Amin, or Bokassa in the Central African Empire, or in Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe coming to power. They have all, at some point in their lives, been candidates for a casting as Julius Caesar.”
“The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'”
“The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic.”
Source: One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In
“The list of the bigots and the list of the fools are always perfectly the same list!”
“The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is infinite. If you want to believe in a particular one of them - teapots, unicorns, or tooth fairies, Thor or Yahweh - the onus is on you to say why you believe in it. The onus is not on the rest of us to say why we do not. We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.”
“The list of things everyone should know is short. I would include
how the brain is composed of the new part and the older parts. I would include how the neocortex learns a model of the world, whereas the older parts of the brain generate our emotions and more primitive behaviors. I would include how the old brain can take control, causing us to act in ways we know we shouldn’t. And I would include how all of us are susceptible to false beliefs and how some beliefs are viral.”
Source: A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
“The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.”
“The list went on and, in truth, you can never be 100% prepared for every eventuality.
You plan as best as you can and then just have to get on with it.”
Source: To The Wild
“The listener has a responsibility that not everyone wants to take, especially if you are putting on the new Top 40 record.”
“The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.”
Source: The Fortress
“The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special training being necessary. The sensual shock must be just as forceful as when one hears a clap of thunder or looks into a bottomless abyss”
“The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.”
“The Listeners
'Is there anybody there?' said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest's ferny floor.
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller's head:
And he smote upon the door again a second time;
'Is there anybody there?' he said.
But no one descended to the Traveller;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
Where he stood perplexed and still.
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller's call.
And he felt in his heart their strangeness,
Their stillness answering his cry,
While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,
'Neath the starred and leafy sky;
For he suddenly smote on the door, even
Louder, and lifted his head:--
'Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word,' he said.
Never the least stir made the listeners,
Though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
From the one man left awake:
Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.”