T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.”
Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set
“That's how Darkness works. It turns love into something bad.”
Source: Destined
“That's how disagreements always ended with Hugh Hefner; he would just stomp off, and you were left to pick the pieces of your self-worth up off the floor. I'd invested every part of myself in the mansion and had nothing waiting for me outside those gates. I felt so trapped and so vulnerable to his criticisms.”
“That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.”
“That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start looking again the next minute, because there might be something even better waiting.”
Source: Remarkable Creatures: A Novel
“That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground”
Source: Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it
“That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.”
“That's how I always want to remember my time with you. Like a pure white light, breathtaking to behold.”
“That's how I am and how I've always looked at the world. I understood what the pavilions were before I came to Venice, and I knew that wasn't going to be enough for me. I wanted to extend this conversation into something I call urgency. There is urgency with people in crisis. Some communities - often the black community - just live in this urgency.”
“That's how I am as a director - if somebody does a really good take, I can't help it, I'm not even aware of it. Actors really, really need positive reinforcement.”
“That's how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers. That's how I became the boy who never understood how anything worked. That's how I became the boy who wouldn't save a friend. That's how I became the boy who couldn't love the girl.”
Source: Imperial Bedrooms
“That's how I believed relationships worked: You go into town, pick up the girl you want, then ride off into the mountains and the townsfolk can't get them back.”
“That's how I digest it, 'cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I'm gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.”
“That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learns how to misdirect attention and the dark hand is always quicker than the white eye and no matter how close you get to my heart you will never find out my secrets and I'll never tell you and I'll never show you the same trick twice. I'm traveling heavy with illusions.”
Source: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
“That's how I feel about the work. The work is solid, the work exists and will stay the same, but if you can have it playing and interacting with light, then it will always be different.”
“That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics.”
“That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.”
“That's how I operate best. I just ignore feelings and jump right into the next thing.”
“That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that.”
“That's how I relax. I love singing with my castmates.”
“That's how I see myself as an actress. I may not be the best in the world, but I love my craft more than just about anything, and I will give everything I have to it, whatever the cost.”
“That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.”
“That's how I work, whether with stories or novels - they start with an image that comes to me in a daydream, and a lot of times I'm walking around with these pictures in my head for awhile before I start writing.”
“That's how I'm able to work and move between so many different genres - I want to be part of what's happening, I want to make new things.”
“That's how I've made a living for years: doing illustrations for comics and magazines. And I'm still doing it. Though I'm really trying to make efforts to have other career choices, because it's just so unstable.”
“That's how it all started, when I met my wife. My music career, even though I started when I was 16, it never really started till I was like 30, when I started singing and writing my own songs, and that's when it really took off. But prior to that, I was just doing a bunch of covers.”
“That's how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.”
“That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.”
Source: Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker
“That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.”
“That's how it happens, livin life by the drop.”
“That's how it is in heaven. It's just love, and no one forgets who they love.”
Source: Wonder
“That's how it is online—there's no time in cyberspace. It's almost like everything physical evaporates, and it's just your mind and the different sites floating in a void.”
Source: The Spectacular Now
“That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.”
Source: Sister of My Heart
“That's how it is sometimes--God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open it.”
Source: What we carry: poems
“That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.”
“That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.”
Source: Knights of the Hill Country
“That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written by people who were standing where I was that morning as Simon shut the door. Doesn't make it any easier though.”
“That's how it is with the English: if you score against them you're a good player; if you don't, you're not.”
“That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.”
“That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.”
Source: The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories
“That's how it works in Westerns: the hero is minding his own business and trying to make a living, but he does something, the villain finds out about it and they have to have a showdown. So it's kind of a Western set to hip hop music.”
“That's how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it; everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I'm still waiting.”
Source: How To Save A Life
“That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.”
Source: The Light Between Oceans
“That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.”
“That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.”
“That's how most men connect - in bed. The physical connection is important because it reinforces the emotional one.”
“That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.”
Source: Night Watch
“That's how oppression works. Thousands of otherwise decent people are persuaded to go along with an unfair system because changing it seems like too much bother. The appropriate response when somebody demands a change in that unfair system is to listen, rather than turn away or yell, as a child might, that it's not your fault. Of course it isn't your fault. I'm sure you're lovely. That doesn't mean you don't have a responsibility to do something about it.”
“That's how our system works. It's a giant con game. One thing gets old, then you have to buy the next thing that gets old, then the next thing. Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.”
Source: The Spectacular Now
“That's how people make sense of a meeting: they eat something. If they were in a sad moment it would be the same thing, they'd be eating something. It's what makes life fun. We don't need it to be delicious or great or all these things if we're just to survive. But it's one of those things that makes life fun, livable. And the more I submerge myself in it, the more fun I seem to have.”