T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The plane descended into the rugged mounts of southeastern Idaho as Brown repeated a desperate Mayday call. They were streaking downward into Bear Claw National Forest. It was thousands of miles in the most pristine, pure and rugged wilderness in the United States. It was a place where the roar of grizzly bears and mountain lions could still be heard. The plane nosed down into an isolated canyon. It was a tiny speck on the map know only as “The Breath of Hell.”
Source: The Lost Champion
“The plane had seating for twelve, legroom for five, and all the turbulence of Darcy's family life.”
Source: A Delirious Summer
“The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.”
Source: EPZ Thousand Plateaus
“The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it! We're up, above you. We were dependant on you just now, prisoners fawning on you for favors, for wind and light. But now, we are free. We are up! We are off! Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring- a sustained note of power and joy.”
“The plane shook
and it scared her
not because she
was scared to fall
but because she cared
so little
if she did.”
Source: The Dark Between Stars
“The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.”
“The plane was on descent. Reacher could feel it in his ears. And he could feel abrupt turns. The pilot was military, so he was using the rudder. Civilian pilots avoid using the rudder. Using the rudder makes the plane slew, like a car skids. Passengers don't like the feeling. So civilian pilots turn by juicing the engines on one side and backing off on the others. Then the plane comes around smoothly. But military pilots don't care about their passengers' comfort. It's not like they've bought tickets.”
Source: Running Blind
“The planes are crowded and noisy and late, and everybody hates everybody. If armed terrorists had tried to hijack any of the flights I've been on lately, we passengers would have swiftly beaten them to death with those hard rolls you get with your in-flight meals.”
Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits
“The planes fly over and drop their horrible death every day. You learn to live with the sound… Do you believe children up there who see their parents, see each other, turned into meat and bone, you think they’re gonna grow up and accept peace? You think they won’t attack compounders in the envelope from now until forever? We are making terrorists every day, thousands of them! This is what they want… They want to turn every red into a terrorist, every rez into hell. They will get their wish, on the spirit they’ll get their wish! …Ozuye killed my mom. They killed my best friend. I will always keep that hatred. …But I can’t deny what I feel. They are people, like you, made violent.”
Source: Threes: 2
“The planes of consciousness are correlated to what we call the chakras, which are located along the shushumna.”
“The planes of light exist. Yoga is a method of unifying the energies of the body, the mind, and the spirit and directing them towards infinity, the planes of light.”
“The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions.”
“The planes were hijacked, the buildings fell, and thousands of lives were lost nearly a thousand miles from here. But the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were an attack on the heart of America. And standing here in the heartland of America, we say in one voice We will not give in to terrorists; We will not rest until they are found and defeated; We will win this struggle not for glory, nor wealth, nor power, but for justice, for freedom, and for peace; So help us God.”
“The Planeswalker know
YOu take the card from the library
And bury it when you're done.
On the path, you face history.
Walk the path, do the math:
Start with the prime numbers under 100
Whose digits give you 10.
Choose the happy median.
Add it to: The square root of
The cube of five divided by
The sum of 3 and 2.”
Source: The Friendship Riddle
“The planet belongs to all being; all beings are responsible. We all have to do whatever we can do no matter how small it is; nothing is too small.”
“The Planet depends upon you, Rider of the Ancient Years!”
Source: The Pearl of Immortality
“The planet didn’t just remember them—it became them.”
Source: The Silent Signal: A First Contact Science Fiction Novel
“The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.”
“The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature”
“The Planet drifts to random insect doom.”
Source: Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
“The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for approximately forty thousand years-a virtual blink in the cosmos. It is sad that we as a species are ravaging the natural world so fast that we are jeopardizing our survival. If we wipe ourselves out, it would be the height of folly, but the earth will survive even us. It will eventually restore itself. It might take a few thousand years, and it won't be just as it was before, but its life is stronger than death.”
“The planet Earth in its present mode of florescence is being devastated. This devastation is being fostered and protected by legal, political and economic establishments that exalt the human community while offering no protection to the non-human modes of being. There is an urgent need for a Jurisprudence (system of governance) that recognizes that the well-being of the integral world community is primary, and that human well-being is derivative - an Earth Jurisprudence.”
“The planet earth is a sub-world, way below what's average, because if an enlightened being walked through New York City today, no one would see him or her. They wouldn't see the glow.”
“The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, `Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.'... You take action.”
“The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is, transform your language through a synergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination, a synergy between dance and idea, a synergy between understanding and intuition, and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part of this Gaian supermind”
“The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.”
Source: Michael Crichton's Jurassic World
“The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.”
“The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.”
“The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.”
“The planet is dying. The seas rebel. The Force is sickened here. The world screams. The universe screams. But even this must be as the Force wills it. As bad as this is, I have faith. This must be for a reason.”
Source: Star Wars, Vol. 7: The Ashes of Jedha
“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
“The planet is fine. The people are f****d. Because everyone is trying to save the planet. The planet doesn’t need that. The planet will take care of itself. People are selfish. And that's what they're doing is trying to save the planet for themselves to have a nicer place to live.”
“The planet is full and we will be rubbing shoulders forever. There is nowhere else to go.”
“The planet is here for our delight, but it is also here for us to change, to make it the best it can be. It's not just about sleeping and fucking and getting the right dress. Let's HOPE not.”
Source: If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
“The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.”
“The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.”
“The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it's like to be a woman doesn't strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.”
“The planet is under pressure and our choices have never been more important. The Food Revolution Summit is an informative and empowering platform which highlights ways to set a new pattern for the future of the planet.”
“The planet isn't going anywhere. We are.”
“The planet isn't improvising, it's creating dynamic tensions between complex living systems in a planetary choreography, a balancing act between physical, chemical, biological, environmental, and human components.”
“The planet knows no greater silence than two dozen hearts after a loss.”
Source: Beartown
“The planet Mars -- crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms -- has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planeto-logical theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.”
“The planet needs trees. If there is indeed that carbon dioxide out there in the atmosphere, the only species on the planet that can actually trap it for us in a natural process of photosynthesis are the trees.”
“The planet on which we live is poorly organized, many areas are overpopulated, others are reserved for a few, technology's potential is only in part realized, and most people are starving.”
“The planet’s witnessing the appearance of a new creature now, ones that have already conquered all continents and almost every ecological niche. They travel in packs and are anemophilous, covering large distances without difficulty.
Now I see them from the window of the bus, these airborne anemones, whole packs of them, roaming the desert. Individual specimens cling on tight to brittle little desert plants, fluttering noisily-perhaps this is the way they communicate.
The experts say these plastic bags open up a whole new chapter of earthly existence, breaking nature’s age-old habits. They’re made up of their surfaces exclusively, empty on the inside, and this historic forgoing of all content unexpectedly affords them great evolutionary benefits.”
Source: Flights
“The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness”
“The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.”
Source: Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!
“The planet will continue to cook.”
“The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history.”
“The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.”