T Quotes
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“The snag in being married to a person who knows more or less everything is that one gets hopelessly lazy. ... I never look things up in books because all I need to do is ask him, and when he gives me the answers I don't properly commit them to memory because I know if I forget all I have to do is to ask him again. It is rather like keeping one's brain in a suitcase.”
“The snag lies not in the laws themselves as we call them “loopholes” but the much anticipated upshots are knocked down by the failure to interpret in the intended perspective.”
Source: General Laws and Interpretation-Sultanate of Oman-Part I Perspicuous Edition -2014
“The snake had charmed me”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.”
“The snake pit is crowded tonight.
It always is when Vaughn fights, and Vaughn always fights. He breaks noses almost as well as he breaks hearts.”
Source: Pretty Reckless
“The snake produces poison in its body to poison its enemies! But man is a strange snake; he produces poison in his mind to poison his fellow men!”
“The snake pulled back the curtain to the throne room and invited Eve to take a seat. Put on the crown. Pick up the scepter. Put on the cape. See how it feels to have power. See how feels to have a name. See how it feels to be in control! Eve swallowed the hook. The temptation to be like God eclipsed her view of God.”
“The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.”
Source: Frost: Poems
“The snake that can't peel off its skin can't grow. The soul is trapped inside the body; just like a tree inside a seed.”
“The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“The snake watched her with small, black eyes, but Misty wasn’t afraid.
There was nothing that a snake could do to a girl’s bones.
There was nothing left on her that anyone could harm.”
Source: Every Bone a Prayer
“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.”
“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
“The snake will always bite back.”
“The snake you don’t kill today may kill you tomorrow.”
Source: Killing Johnny Miracle
“The snake, the rat, the cat, the dog...
How you gonna see 'em if you livin' in the fog?”
“The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms!”
“The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.”
Source: Collected Works
“The snapshooter’s pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection, which is exactly their appeal and their style. The picture isn’t straight. It isn’t done well. It isn’t composed. It isn’t thought out. And out of this imbalance, and out of this not knowing, and out of this real innocence toward the medium comes an enormous vitality and expression of life.”
Source: Lisette Model
“The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance. Innocence is one of the highest forms of being and ignorance is one of the lowest.”
“The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“The SNCC base of operation, at the corner of Jackson and High Streets, was in the heart of the black community in Montgomery. I don't remember too much else about the city, but I'll always remember that corner. There were hundreds of young people behind police barricades of some sort. Lots of college students, some white, from up North, and some local black folks and college students. The whole Selma-to-Montgomery push, and this ancillary thrust by SNCC in Montgomery, was because on the other side of that barricade there were white folks who had shown they would stop at nothing, including violence, to protect white supremacy.”
Source: Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power
“The sneak-peeks you get off the top are of them in their real life. You're more invested, you know both of them, and you've already made assumptions. A murder who would murders someone - that makes them immediately bad - but here you see them in a different.”
“The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will not believe you; your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.”
Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate;
He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate.
And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go,
And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow.
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville, mighty Casey has struck out.”
Source: Casey at the Bat: The Billion Dollar Contract
“The snide little fucker actually paid you a visit in person?
~ Her Demonic Angel ~”
“The Sniper Bird by Stewart Stafford
"Look out!" the crowd shouted to me,
"There's a Sniper Bird in those trees!"
A whooshing sound shot past my ears,
Making me duck down to my knees.
He must have gone rogue, I reckoned,
Someone cheated him over birdseed,
Then he took a squirrel as his hostage,
Get a negotiator quickly up those trees.
He threw up his wings and surrendered,
They brought him down in a gilded cage,
Never again sniping at innocent people,
He studies elocution with a parrot sage.
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
“The sniper of heart misses only flowers. (Le sniper du cœur - Ne rate que les fleurs)”
“The snobbish lost in laud.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“The snooze button is useless if you love life enough to get up on time.”
“The snooze button is useless is you love life enough to get up on time.”
“The snores alone were quite a study, varying from the mild sniff to the stentorian snort, which startled the echoes and hoisted the performer erect to accuse his neighbor of the deed, magnanimously forgive him, and wrapping the drapery of his couch about him, lie down to vocal slumber. After listening for a week to this band of wind instruments, I indulged in the belief that I could recognize each by the snore alone, and was tempted to join the chorus by breaking out with John Brown's favorite hymn: "Blow ye the trumpet, blow!”
Source: Hospital Sketches
“the snow ... came in thick tufts like new wool - washed before the weaver spins it.”
“The snow again. White, white net of beauty, net of dream, trapping the earth, trapping the helpless heart of life.”
Source: The Dark Dawn
“The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.”
“The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground.”
Source: Beautiful Disaster
“The snow came up to the top of Georgie's calves - she had to lift her feet high to make any progress. Her ears and eyelids were freezing ... God, she'd never even been able to imagine this much cold before. How could people live someplace that so obviously didn't want them?”
“The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather.”
“The snow covered top shall ignite the sky in flames as ash falls to cover the ground. Cherry blossoms will die and fall leafless to the ground as the dying wind shall groan on on silence. For this year has not be born.”
“The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.”
Source: Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel
“The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.”
Source: ViVa
“The snow drifted down and down, all in ghostly silence, and lay thick and unbroken on the ground. It was a place of whites and blacks and greys. White towers and white snow and white statues, black shadows and black trees, the dark grey sky above. A pure world, Sansa thought. I do not belong here. Yet she stepped out all the same.”
“The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are bot failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better.”
Source: Wintergirls
“The snow falls soft and unfathomable, drawing the world down to a whitened hush, forcing us (as few things do) to pause long enough to take stock of everything that we miss in our crazed pursuit to gain everything that we can.”
“The snow fell as softly as a poet’s tears.”
Source: The Fish That Climbed a Tree
“The snow filled the air with a soft grey-blue mist, softening the wind and gunfire, bringing the earth and sky together into one swaying blur.
The snow fell on Bach's shoulders; it was as though flakes of silence were falling on the still Volga, on the dead city, on the skeletons of horses. It was snowing everywhere, on earth and on the stars; the whole universe was full of snow. Everything was disappearing beneath it: guns, the bodies of the dead, filthy dressings, rubble, scraps of twisted iron.
This soft, white snow settling over the carnage of the city was time itself; the present was turning into the past, and there was no future.”
Source: Life and Fate
“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”
“The snow grew deeper as we laboured down the hill. The land was a flat white pall, spread out like rumpled wool.
Into the distance stretched the solid sea, sullen and murky beneath the ice.
The sea will trick a man, seeming frozen and steadfast on the surface, but under the white crust, the black water gulps greedily at the breathing world above.
In time, I knew, despite everything that had happened, the sun would rise and the light would glitter off the ice, like shards of glass.
The world would glow.”
Source: The Glass Woman
“The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)