T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“That was it; that was all. But they stand there for awhile longer, feeling the power that is in their circle, the closed body that they make. The light paints their faces in pale fading colors; the sun is now gone and sunset is dying. They stand together in a circle as the darkness creeps down into the Barrens, filling up the paths they have walked this summer, the clearings where they have played tag and guns, the secret places along the riverbanks where they have sat and discussed childhood’s long questions or smoked Beverly’s cigarettes or where they have merely been silent, watching the passage of the clouds reflected in the water. The eye of the day is closing.”
Source: It
“That was it. You used to live in that library, didn't you?'
'Pretty much.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“That was it! The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else.”
“That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it.”
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“That was just a hug, and we were fully clothed."
He shot me a weird look, and the flush on his neck got redder.
"I mean--our skin didn't touch,' I hurried on, and now, oh God, I was blushing too.
"So maybe this thing needs skin-on-skin-contact. Or hand-on-hand. Or . . .”
Source: Rebel Belle
“That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.”
“That was like seeing a dodo and a unicorn all wrapped up in one”
“That was like swatting June bugs off a fly.”
“That was like the best start I could've had, the best way I could've started in the music scene. I owe [Jack Johnson] a lot for the beginning of my career and setting me off on the right path, and that's the coolest thing that ever could've happened.”
“That was like the moment of revelation for me that in fact we are not the lunatic fringe.”
“That was liquid football”
“That was love, wasn't it? It wasn't just a quick drop -- it was falling, over and over again, for your person. It was falling as they became new people. It was learning how to exist with every new breath. It was uncertain and it was undeniably hard, and it wasn't something you could plan for.”
Source: The Seven Year Slip
“That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.”
“That was me. Reliable. The good southern guy. Boy next door.
Except I wasn’t. Not really.”
Source: Winter's Path
“That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.”
“That was my baby brother. It doesn't matter how he went out of that window, I should have caught him.”
Source: Faithful Place
“That was my big break [Lonesome Dove]. My first real kind of adult role on something really well-written. It was a spin-off of the miniseries, and I played Col. Mosby, a very dangerous, Southern colonel in post-Civil War, wandering the West.”
“That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.”
“That was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn't necessarily come to hear that. It was fun to develop that technique. And now in dance music - I'm still a hip-hop guy at heart, but I love dance music.”
“That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.”
“That was my concept from the beginning - a crazy caper that's a parable for what happens in the absence of regulation.”
“That was my costume for the past five years.
A hobo. Actually, it wasn’t much of a costume. I wore one of Dad’s baggy old suits with patches on the pants. Mom rubbed charcoal on my face to make me look dirty. And I carried a knapsack on a fishing pole over my shoulder.
Bor-ring!”
Source: The Haunted Mask II
“That was my dad's sense of, you know, laughing at himself, laughing at existence, the universe, all of it and not being too serious about what we do with because at the end of the day if you're here it's a blessing. It's you know life is hard. Life is hard for everybody at some point, but it's those who are able to laugh at it and laugh with it and roll with it that ultimately I think live the fulfilling lives that we're all trying to do. You know, and big step there is to not take yourself too seriously from the start.”
“That was my decision, so I have to be responsible for that. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I don't have a good reason for why I wanted to come back, I don't have a good reason for doing it all.”
“That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure.”
“That was my earliest maladaptive coping mechanism I forged when I was a kid. I found that my fists weren't going to do any significant protective work for me, so my mouth was it. Making my father laugh was a way to control him.”
“That was my experience with everybody in the book. That was what was so cool. It's just an excuse to hang out with people. It's not for a movie; it's not for a magazine. No one's here telling us what to do. We're at my house shooting. I just get to go, "What do you want to do today?" We're only there because we want to be there because of each other. There's no other reason.”
“That was my favorite dagger." She had a favorite dagger? Seriously? And she thought that I was a freak.”
Source: Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost
“That was my first job after graduating (or being graduated from) high school.”
Source: Something happened
“That was my first real experience at feeling set apart. Not only did I not knock them dead, but rather it was I that died...acutely aware of being mutton dressed up as lamb. I exchanged my white tie and tails for a white waiter’s jacket and got back to my proper calling!”
Source: Flash of Silver: ...the leap that changed my world
“That was my gift . . . having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.”
Source: Miles
“That was my gift. Not strength or speed. Stamina. I never got bored. Whatever I was doing, I could keep doing it forever. I liked it. I locked into each task, and stayed at it until I got it right.”
“That was my go-to emotion lately. When I wanted to scream, I stayed silent. When I wanted to cry, hit something or complain, I stayed silent.”
Source: The Beard Made Me Do It
“That was my goal in portraying Jesse Owens: bringing that level of humanity so people could understand who he was as a person.”
“That was my great ambition. Not to be Illea's princess. To be Aspen's.”
“That was my heart and that was my passion. All I ever wanted to do is wrestle. I never wanted to pitch in Game Seven of the World Series, I never wanted to throw the touchdown in the Superbowl, I wanted to wrestle...Be a professional wrestler.”
“That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the music that I listened to at that time. So to write essentially like a pop-punk song about musicals. I wanted the dichotomy of the tone of the music with the lyrics and my singing voice.”
“That was my life’s goal, to never err. My life had been a mistake—born a girl, and on the wrong side of wedlock. I had no room to make more errors.”
Source: The Red Palace
“That was my mom. Don't fight the system. Mock the system.”
Source: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.”
Source: The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle
“That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.”
“That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.”
“That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.”
“That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.”
“That was never a penalty in a million planets.”
“That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.”
“That was never on my radar, traffic stopping. It was never important to me.”
“That was New York; a whole cacophony of sounds and tastes that all somehow came together to form something beautiful”
Source: Jungle Princess
“That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955
“That was not the professional hatred of one warrior for another in the heat of battle, in which even beneath the hatred there still existed a certain begrudging respect.”
Source: Honored Enemy