T Quotes
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“That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the editor's way; then he can think better. I do not care much for this one; his ears are not alike; still, editor suggests the sound of Edward, and he will do. I could make him better if I had a model, but I made this one from memory. But is no particular matter; they all look alike, anyway. They are conceited and troublesome, and don't pay enough.”
Source: Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays
“That is an extremely important role: how white brothers and sisters laterally spread knowledge, insight, and challenge in a way that white brothers and sisters will not hear it from a person like me, necessarily.”
“That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.”
“That is an incredible period I think when you have a near-death experience. You are really understanding that there is a greater self than the physical body, and the cosmic anatomy as I call it is suspended and physical, is almost attached to it but not quite, and you're living in that in-between sphere of apparent reality around you and then the real reality of the infiniteness of it all.”
“That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or read a book that inspired me, or listened to music that made me want to cry. I closed that chamber myself, for all the usual reasons. And now I seem to have made a pact with some philistine devil: if I don't attempt to re-open it, I will be allowed just enough energy and optimism to get through a working day without wanting to hang myself.”
“That is another classification of a haunt— one that is tied by a place, rather than an emotion. We can find those hauntings at places of disaster or historical significance.”
Source: Delicious Death
“That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had the fashion of calling everything "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.”
Source: The Purloined Letter
“That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.”
Source: The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition
“That is another reason this transition for me into soaps makes sense for me, because I would get to work at my craft every day. I would be able to play this very real character.”
“That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has always been a struggle in our politics.”
“That is art: to give all you have. And what have you?
Your life - nothing more.
And to give life means to feel life throughout your whole being.”
“That is as true for fiction or non-fiction. The writer has to really know their subject. It is really important to remember that the readers are a lot smarter than the writer. Also, good writing has to do with rewriting. You will never get it right the first time. So you rewrite and rewrite again until you get it right. Until you, and the reader, will be able to visualize what you're writing about.”
“That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular, and the most inexplicable that we may encounter.”
“That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.”
“That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.”
Source: Concerning the spiritual in art
“That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.”
“That is because no one could ever hate me as much as I hate myself, okay? So any mean thing someone's gonna think of to say about me, I've already said to me, about me, probably within the last half hour.”
“That is because one realises one’s soul only by getting rid of all alien passions, all acquired culture, and all external possessions, be they good or evil.”
Source: De Profundis
“That is because you have no brains," answered the girl. "No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.”
Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“That is Buddha`s meaning of nirvana: to be free from life and death, to be free from desire. The moment you are free from all desires... remember, I repeat, ALL desires. The so-called religious, spiritual desires are included in it, nothing is excluded. All desires have to be dropped because every desire brings frustration, misery, boredom. If you succeed it brings boredom; if you fail it brings despair. If you are after money there are only two possibilities: either you will fail or you will succeed. If you succeed you will be bored with money.”
“That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.”
“That is certainly the point: when the human species was born, on the African savanna, life was pretty good; we could live in harmony with the rest of nature, and that's what I've been calling Eden. The only technologies that humans devised for some 2 million years were fire and the hand ax. That's all. Eden didn't need anything more”
“That is certainly the promise of [Donald Trump] campaign and the promise of his economic program.This economic program is really the pickup truck of economic programs. It's the Ford F-150 of economic programs. It's about manufacturing. It's about oil, fossil fuels. It's a deliberate, forceful reassertion of an image of American industrialism that we have inherited from the 20th century.”
“That is correct," Zeus said. "The blood of Olympus was spilled. She is fully conscious."
"Oh, come on!" Percy complained. "I get a little nosebleed and I wake up the entire earth? That's not fair!”
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“That is curious, no doubt about it,” remarked
Vincent.
Harrison nodded. “Oh, that’s not the half of it! It was
strange in itself and startled me quite a bit, but I was even more startled when I returned home that evening and actually had a look at the oranges for the first time.”
The three siblings blinked at him.
“The oranges… were startling?”
Harrison chuckled. “No, Miss Helene, not the actual
oranges; rather what they were wrapped in.”
Source: Joy
“That is dangerous forgetting, for that judgment deserves as much to be burnt into our consciousness as ADM Jabalpur.”
Source: Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences
“That is death - shifting from "is" to "was.”
“That is definitely a misunderstanding between me and a part of my audience. To be honest, I am often unsettled by the responses some people have had to my movies, and that includes many people who like them.”
“That is definitely the biggest challenge, career and family, and learning how to balance.”
“That is definitely the heart and soul of Rise Against — that passion to inspire change for the better.”
“That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.”
“That is disgusting, and I will never kiss you again." "Yes, you will," he said, and proved by pressing his lips to hers. She wanted to squirm away, just to prove the point but God, she loved kissing him.”
Source: Black Dawn
“That is enough to win a three-way presidential race. If young people understand they have the numbers and they have the power to come out and turn this election on its head.”
“That is entirely fitting I'm sure, but I personally can't get over the memory of 2005. When Michael Jackson stood essentially alone and accused and convicted in the minds of many of the most perverse crime.”
“That is especially important as more young people must take on huge debt loads to go to college.”
“That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.”
“That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.”
“That is exactly how the brain works when it thinks of buying a product . It does not think about the best product or the cheapest product or the most value for money product but the available product or the top of the mind product”
Source: Corporate Invisible Selling Behavioural Economics & More
“That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?”
“That is exciting to reinvent myself, to invent a new character. As an actor that is revitalizing.”
“That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its support.”
Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture
“That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.”
“That is fucked up. That fuck is so upped it might never get down again.”
Source: Never Sweeter
“That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.”
“That is God's call to us - simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew the kind of life in which the closeness is felt and experienced.”
Source: Thomas Merton in Alaska: Prelude to the Asian Journal : the Alaskan Conferences, Journals, and Letters
“That is gold which is worth gold.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“That is good which doth good.”
“That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society.”
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”
Source: My Ántonia