T Quotes
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“The pieces of Cholly's life could become coherent only in the head of a musician. Only those who talk their talk through the gold of curved metal, or in the touch of black-and-white rectangles and taut skins and strings echoing from wooden corridors, could give true form to his life. Only they would know how to connect the heart of a red watermelon to the asafetida bag to the muscadine to the flashlight on his behind to the fists of money to the lemonade in a Mason jar to a man called Blue and come up with what all of that meant in joy, in pain, in anger, in love, and give it its final and pervading ache of freedom. Only a musician would sense, know, without even knowing that he knew that Cholly was free. Dangerously free. Free to feel whatever he felt--fear, guilt, shame, love, grief, pity. Free to be tender or violent, to whistle or weep.”
Source: The Bluest Eye
“The pieces of ourselves that we leave behind are important.”
“The pieces of the puzzle are visible, but not the grand design. Images flicker and dance like memories, hinting at events to come. They scatter the moment I reach for them only to re-form to taunt me. I who never truly possessed them, nor may I ever.
They do tell me this: a time of great change approaches and it’s not enough to watch. We must act. We can’t count on others to do our work for us or all may be lost.
- Oracle Lilian’s Diary, Winter of 3765”
Source: Fire and Gold
“The pieces on this board we share are already in place, and it isn’t difficult to guess the game.”
Source: Broken Throne
“The pieces that have survived, the ones that we all love, were not all popular in their time. Just look at Beethoven's late string quartets. The music that the musical community selects, however, is usually the very best.”
“The pieces that I was, she gathered them and gave them back to me, all in the right order.”
“The piercing angst of disappointment in everything on this side of eternity creates a discontent with this world and pushes us to long for God Himself”
Source: It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered
“The piercing fanfare of the brass against the brutal boom and rattle of the drums surged through the air. At the head of the Ferris band marched the drum majorette. A crimson and white shako crowned her long dark hair which flew out behind her and across her radiant face flushed with excitement. Her blue eyes flashed and her smile registered triumph at having been chosen.”
Source: Once upon a Decade: Tales of the Fifties
“The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole? Both the nail and the wound cry out that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself... Through these sacred wounds we can see the secret of his heart, the great mystery of love.”
“The piety of "having a personal relationship with Christ" ... is alien to the New Testament... but evangelicals elevate it to the shibboleth of salvation! Unless you have a personal relationship with Jesus, buster, one day you will be boiling in Hell. Sheesh! Talk about the fury of a personal savior scorned!”
“The 'pig' is a hot dog that is swaddled in a 'blanket,' which can be soft white bread or commercial refrigerated, crescent roll triangles. The latter is easier and gives the dish that special aftertaste common to packaged quick-rising dough products. Simply wrap a triangle of dough around the center of a frankfurter, and then bake in the oven.”
Source: Encyclopedia of North American Eating & Drinking Traditions, Customs, and Rituals
“The pig is the most shameless animal on the face of the earth. It is the only animal that invites its friends to have sex with its mate. In America, most people consume pork. Many times after dance parties, they have swapping of wives; many say 'you sleep with my wife and I will sleep with your wife.' If you eat pigs then you behave like pigs.”
“The pig was soon dissected and its blood filled the bucket in the bottom of which a patch of sky was reflected darkly. It had surrendered to the vortex of life and his breathing.”
“The Pig, if I am not mistaken,
Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon.
Let others say his heart is big,
I think it stupid of the Pig.”
Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash
“The pigeon had been unlucky. Ten birds had been on their way back to their Ilkley coop, flying in stolid, heavy formation; nine had returned home. The tenth, flying low over the moor at the base of this avian wedge, had plummeted soundlessly to the soil, its senses overwhelmed by the tendrils of consciousness which had enwrapped them.
When the pigeon awoke, moments later, all of the rudimentary universal constructs which defined pigeonness in its brain had been carefully swept away, save one. The entity didn't need birdseed; it didn't need a pigeon coup in Ilkley; but it needed to fly.
And it needed as much of the pigeon's cerebral activity as possible to focus on getting it to its desired location, which meant that for the first time in its life, this pigeon was reading roadsigns.
It was also experiencing emotions for which it was somewhat unprepared, most notably an insistent, imperative yearning for Leeds United.”
Source: Elvis Lives on Planet Football
“The pigeons are shitting on George M. Cohan. I shoo them off. They fly up and perch on his hat. Cohan would've never given his regards to Broadway if he saw how dirty they kept his statue in Duffy Square. New Yorkers walk right by. Nobody cares.”
Source: The Autograph Hound: A Novel
“The piggies were not to be disturbed-”
Source: Speaker for the Dead
“The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.”
Source: Poems
“The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook......it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew.”
“The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.”
Source: The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series
“The Pike is the meanest and most vicious of fresh-water fishes. This is caused by heredity and environment, or unfortunate social conditions in the water.”
Source: How to Become Extinct
“The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.”
Source: Elia: essays which have appeared under that signature in the London magazine
“The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.”
“The Pilates Method teaches you to be in control of your body and not at its mercy.”
“The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon. Gorged, they alighted by his runnels of sweat and drank. They tickled under his nostrils and played leapfrog on his thighs. They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned. At last Simon gave up and looked back; saw the white teeth and dim eyes, the blood—and his gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition.”
Source: Lord of the Flies
“The pile of stones thus marks both an act of deliberate remembrance, and an act of deliberate forgetting. They're fond of paradox in that region.”
Source: The Blind Assassin
“The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are created equal: the dead are innocent, the killers monstrous, the surrounding politics insane or nonexistent...The anonymous dead and their anonymous killers become their own context. The horror becomes absurd.”
“The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views.”
“The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything.”
“The pilgrimage began boldly
Flying, alone, business class only
And the Atlantic stretched into blends
Of grey --where do the clouds touch the water?
I worried about swelling; such an elderly
Concern, but I drank water as fast as the
Man in 48G drank coffee
(The alcohol was reserved for the woman in 47A)
Landing, I carefully followed instructions
And laughed when he held up my name on a sign, as if
He was privileged for my presence --didn't the flowers signify?
Kissing, right there, in crowded Heathrow
I could hear the director wanting a replay
But we had trains to catch...”
Source: Carve a Place for Me
“The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
“The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell, if experience was that important, we'd never have anybody walking on the moon.”
“The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.”
“The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.”
“The pilgrims were not pioneers, they were terrorists.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“The Pill, Prozac, and Viagra are to the pharmaceutical industry what pornography, with its grammar of blowjobs, penetrations, and cum shots, is to the industry of culture: the jackpot of postindustrial biocapitalism.”
Source: Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
“The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you.”
Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar
“The pillar of fire is prayerful faith.”
“The pillars of a family are love, respect, and support.”
“The pillars of civilization easily become gallows
when man forgets why they were raised.”
“The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.”
“The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.”
“the pillars of hope have been
built on your name”
Source: Game Theory
“The pillars of sharing are giving and receiving, which equally sum up to the Law of Reciprocity.”
Source: The Law Of Reciprocity
“The pills sit in there in their colours and shapes ready to push me, in plastic-coated increments, into my future.”
Source: All That I Am
“The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
“The pilot channel is doing what was expected. It is abating dust and giving us an inkling of what the area will look like when it is restored .”
“The pilot is still the pilot, whether he is at a remote console or on the flight deck. With the potential for thousands of these unmanned aircraft in use years from now, the standards for pilot training need to be set high to ensure that those on the ground and other users of the airspace are not put in jeopardy.”
“The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.”
“The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).”