T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“That was a general impression that one got, that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was always flitting around the country and descending on some place in the Ozarks that she decided was disadvantaged, and announcing that something had to be done. And she had a very active social conscience, which I think in general is to her credit, although it tended, as many people thought, to just be overdone to the point where it gave rise to this crack that she regarded the whole world as one vast slum project”
“That was a good day for me," Skulduggery said. "I didn't have to hit anyone. I didn't have to shoot anyone. I just sat around and talked to my good friend and partner, Valkyrie Cain.”
“That was a good fight back in the gym,” he said. “But I think you could benefit from a few more boxing lessons.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“That was a good mark in Latin, and I am pleased with your steady improvement in it.”
Source: Letters to His Children
“That was a good straightforward point of view, no pretence that games were anything but an outlet for power and aggression; no stuff about their being enjoyable as such. You played a game to demonstrate that you did it better than someone else. If it came to that, I thought how few people do anything for its own sake, from making love to practising the arts.”
Source: A Dance to the Music of Time: 3rd Movement
“That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found myself once again lost in a forest of ambiguities.”
Source: Eva Luna: A Novel
“That was a great game of golf, fellers.”
“That was a great time, the summer of '71 - I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it!”
Source: White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography
“That was a hell of a shot!”
Source: Under the Bus
“That was a hell of a thing.”
“That was a joke," I offer. I can't read her at all.
"It was very funny."
"That must be why you're laughing so hard.”
Source: First-Time Caller
“That was a joke, she was always joking around, but it was also true. I guess most jokes have some truth in them, and that is what makes them funny.”
Source: Billy Summers
“That was a kiss for the record books.”
Source: Forgiven
“That was a lie. Of course I remembered. The memory pounced on me the moment I fell asleep. Fire painted my bones when I kissed him. In the back of my head, I’d felt the kind of drowsy hunger that lit up my thoughts when I first ate demon fruit. For more and less. For something impossible.”
Source: A Crown of Wishes
“That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.”
“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
Source: Great Expectations
“That was a mistake, I guess, going out to California. They have these things called guidance counselors in high school. They drink a lot of herbal tea.”
“That was a perfectly reasonable explanation," she said grumpily. "Perhaps my advisers don't lie to me." "Isn't that what you'd want?" asked Giddon. "Well, yes, but it doesn't elucidate my puzzle!" "If I may say so, Lady Queen," said Giddon, "it's not always easy to follow your conversation." "Oh, Giddon," she said, sighing. "If it's any comfort, I don't follow it either.”
Source: Bitterblue
“That was a piece I did in 1963 with Konrad Lueg in a department store, in the furniture department. It was announced in some papers as an exhibition opening, but the people who came didn't know that it was to be a sort of Happening. I don't think it is quite right that it has become so famous anyhow. It was just a lot of fun, and the word itself, Capitalist Realism, hit just right. But it wasn't such a big deal.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007
“That was a place a person had to travel through alone. I met there a cold indifferent truth: that every person -- even a loved person, and I was not loved -- was alone. On the whole globe, there was no one but myself, and I was shaken and torn down to the merest speck of being.”
Source: A Room Made of Leaves
“That was a real fireball.”
“That was a really interesting series [Threshold ] that I think would've been really great had it continued. I know Brannon Braga, who was running the show at the time, had a lot of really interesting ideas for what was going to happen the second, third, fourth, and fifth seasons, and they had it really planned out what was going to go on. But CBS just decided to pull the plug on it.”
“That was a really shitty move Liam! How would you like it if I turned into an animal when we were arguing?”
Source: Liam
“That was a sarcastic remark pointing out that Bill Clinton has, quite a past, and Hillary Clinton has done quite a job on attacking the people who were victims of Bill Clinton.”
“That was a side effect of the Fox Serum Virus. Once an infected person died, their body was later reanimated and the hunger would continue.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.”
“That was a terrible Super Bowl, I have to say. I mean you got the big Peyton Manning walk off into the sunset win, but what a shnoozo.”
“That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.”
“That was a to do, I thought, grateful that the moment was over. Yet I found myself returning to the memory throughout the day, as a person might absently touch a favored piece of jewelry.”
Source: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
“That was a very big part of our relationship. Making sure Nicky felt okay. That he was happy, making sure he was having a good time.”
Source: Daisy Jones & The Six
“That was a very different emotion and I felt Dido's words would be good and I had a template with my voice in it. Then, when he heard it, he wanted both our voices together in it and that's the scene when he sees the boy and then he gets charged to go on that final cutting effort.”
“That was a very natural process because as I was creating the animatic I added music clips as reference of the kind of music I wanted in the film. These were from musicians like Naná Vasconcelos and Barbatuques, the body percussion group.”
“That was a weird thought. My straight-up mother being bothered by faeries? Delia was even weirder. I could picture the scene. Faerie: Come away, human. Delia: Why? Faerie: Untold delights and youth forever. Delia: I'm holding out for a better offer. Ta.”
Source: Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
“That was a while ago now.
My bedroom door, which leads into
the living room and to him, is ajar.
"So that your dreams can come out to me,"
Daddy said when I left.”
“That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.”
“That was acceptable, his father told him: you can always try to solve a problem by proving that no solution exists.”
“That was actually Lloyd Phillips who was a Kiwi film producer in L.A. And it was about Gorgeous George, not Haystacks Calhoun. I was in a couple of Lloyd's films and got approached to write the story. People don't realize it, but Gorgeous George had this flamboyant, camp stage persona that had a tremendous influence on other celebrities, like Elton John, Liberace, Elvis Presley, and Mohammed Ali, who all wanted to establish their own outlandish stage personas. The project died because Gorgeous George's wife refused to give up the rights.”
“That was Admiral Nguyen, youngest of the men present. Hawkish. Impressed with himself in the way that successful young men tended to be.”
Source: Caliban’s War
“That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.”
“That was all he said, except for "Aaaeerrgghhh." Which is not really a word. But the reason that he screamed "Aaaeerrgghhh" was that Franco had bitten him savegly on the wrist.”
“That was all I wanted!" whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels was not entirely extinct.”
Source: An Old-fashioned Girl
“That was all part of giving someone a piece of your heart; they ended up taking a whole chunk of your mind and reserving it all for themselves.”
Source: If You Could See Me Now
“That was all there was to it. Kindness. A possibility of friendship. Not attraction. Certainly not romance. She must take care not to make more of it than it was. If she did…well. The consequences of such foolishness wouldn’t be to her liking.”
Source: The Winter Companion
“That was always a dream of mine to play division one basketball. Not knowing that I wasn't going to get the opportunity because of my past and previous couple of years in college. The opportunity to play with only one year of eligibility was great.”
“That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family.”
“That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.”
Source: A Life in Letters
“That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.”
Source: A Life In A Moment
“That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.”
“That was always my hope that that is exactly what I would do. It was always part of the dream of this story - to write the novel and then direct the movie.”
“That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.”