T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The reason 'closure' is a cliche is that it is used too often, too imprecisely, and doesn't in any case reflect reality. In reality, such closure in broken friendships and much else in life is rarely achieved; only death brings closure and then not always for those still living.”
“The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.”
“The reason 'The Carol Burnett Show' did so well in the ratings is because people were looking for that comfort zone when the whole family sat around and watched television and enjoyed it.”
“The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.”
“The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.”
“The reason [drummers] call things "unison", and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like you're a little sharp, or a little flat; it's so slight that they call it "unison", but it's not unison.”
“The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.”
“The reason a lot of women can't move on from a relationship or people they love is because they need to know why. Why did this happen? Why did you do this? Why don't you care? Why did you hurt me? Why do you believe this about me? Why did you send me mixed signals? Why are these other people in your life acting like you care? Men have it all wrong. Insecurity is not why a lot of women don't let go. Women have a difficult time letting go because men don't communicate why at the level that women require. They don't back up their words with actions that are not confusing or could be misinterrupted as something else. Until, men learn that their actions and their friends and families reactions can create a questionable doubt about how they feel, they will forever have to deal with the drama they create for themselves.”
“The reason a person is a republican is because something is wrong with them. Again, that's science - that's neuroscience. You cannot be well adjusted, open-minded, pluralistic, enlightened and be a republican.”
“The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format a mental or intellectual program.”
“The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.”
“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.”
“The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake.”
“The reason actors are assholes is because they don't eat.”
“The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.”
“The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.”
“The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up.”
“The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.”
“The reason America is a special nation is because it was founded by people who were first on their knees before they were on their feet. We are a nation rooted in our faith.”
“The reason America is in its death-throes is because America has lost moral authority.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.”
“The reason any conservative's failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy is the only sin that really inflames them. Inasmuch as liberals have no morals, they can sit back and criticize other people for failing to meet the standards that liberals simply renounce. It's an intriguing strategy. By openly admitting to being philanderers, draft dodgers, liars, weasels and cowards, liberals avoid ever being hypocrites.”
Source: How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter
“The reason any person yaks excessively is because his communication is not being adequately acknowledged. He just keeps trying to be heard.”
Source: Miracles for Breakfast: A Startling New Approach to Raising Children
“The reason Armand Gamache could go there was because it wasn't totally foreign to him. He knew it because he’d seen his own burned terrain, he’d walked off the familiar and comfortable path inside his own head and heart and seen what festered in the dark. And one day Jean Guy Beauvoir would look at his own monsters, and then be able to recognize others. And maybe this was the day and this was the case. He hoped so.”
Source: A Rule Against Murder
“The reason artists show so little interest
In public freedom is because the freedom
They've come to feel the need of is a kind
No one can give them they can scarce attain
The freedom of their own material.”
Source: The poetry of Robert Frost
“The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible and we want our ideas to be understood in more complicated ways.”
“The reason, as I had learned from my father, is that there is no certainty in death. Because there is no beginning or end, there is no way to measure how long your time.”
Source: The First Confessor
“The reason as to why a human cannot give birth to himself is because he needs someone to help him. We are altricial, or helpless at birth, because we have to depend on others so that later in life when we are capable, we help those in need. And this is very much part of the circle of life.”
“The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves.”
“The reason Ataturk, Kemal Ataturk was and is so highly reputed, is he was attempting to modernize… That’s not the right word. Well, it is. For lack of a better way of saying it, he was trying to make Islam compatible with the modern twentieth century world.”
“The reason behind Pain is the gap between your reality and expectations.”
“The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.”
“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”
“The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part of the creation of the story because they must imagine and envision it. There is creation in the act of reading.”
“The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion.”
“The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized for it. Afraid to be misunderstood, to be accused of saying what they didn't mean, because they might be criticized for it.”
“The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“The reason can make as much damage as passion.”
Source: B as in Beauty
“The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.”
“The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about motherhood. And when we're talking about motherhood we're always tacitly assuming that child care must be a very dim second to full-time mother care.”
Source: Loud and Clear
“The reason companies work is because you're able to get a lot of people doing the work; it's not because of this visionary. Steve Jobs didn't make Apple; it was a bunch of people. The building of the right team is an art in and of its own right.”
“The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.”
“The reason
consistency is valuable
and is a currency that
measures the value of
the personal brand is
because of reliability.”
Source: Out of the Crowd
“The reason creativity and craziness go together is that if you're just plain crazy without being able to sing or dance or write good poems, no one is going to want to have babies with you. Your genes will fall by the wayside. Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?”
Source: Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So
“The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.”
“The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.”
Source: Blood Memory
“The reason darkness overcomes light is not the power of darkness, but the weakness of light! Darkness is not an entity in itself, it is not a thing, it is simply the absence of light, a void, and because it is something that does not exist, it cannot even travel like light! Darkness has neither its own energy nor its own mass, so wherever you see darkness, blame the light, blame its inadequacy!”
“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity--it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.”
Source: Life of Pi
“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity- its envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.”
“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.”
Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated