T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.”
“The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure.”
“The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.”
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.”
“The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus”
Source: Inkspell
“The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.”
“The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.”
Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“The sponge baths were almost more of a torture chamber than anything else. My nerves being completely severed, no longer sent the sensation of water being on my legs.”
Source: Spineless
“The sponge has no water; it cannot give water without first taking water! To attain wisdom, put your sponge in different lakes, different oceans, different rivers, put it under the rain, let it absorb as much different waters as possible and then squeeze the sponge so that others can get this enriched water!”
“The sponge looks within and sees only the ocean of God. The sponge looks without and sees only the ocean of God, but not all of the ocean of God is within the sponge.”
Source: An Ocean of Light: Contemplation, Transformation, and Liberation
“The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.”
“The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.”
Source: Three plays
“The spontaneous combustion. It's new. Very exciting.”
Source: Still Allowed: A Perimenopausal Love Story
“The spontaneous expansion of the Church reduced to its elements is a very simple thing...What is necessary is faith. What is needed is the kind of faith which uniting a man to Christ, sets him on fire.”
“The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.”
Source: Jeff Wall: photographs
“The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.”
“The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.”
Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“The spontaneous tendency to invoke a Final Cause in explanation of every difficulty is characteristic of metaphysical philosophy. It arises from a general tendency towards the impersonation of abstractions which is visible throughout History.”
Source: Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings
“The spooks are all cowards. Sunlight is the solution to these things.”
“The spoon is a reader's friend, scooping from the plate almost by itself. The fork requires more attention.”
Source: Tre cavalli
“The spoon’s color does not change the soup’s taste.”
“The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world.”
“The sport [football] is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel... [The National Football League] now needs a guardian, not a CEO.”
“The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one.”
“The sport has changed so much since 2004, it's incredible. If you look even at me, the way I'm fencing now compared to 2004, it's a completely different sport. They've changed so many things just with what [the referees] are calling, they've changed the timing of the [scoring] lights. You always have to be evolving as a fencer. The Olympics is interesting because it's such a small field compared to what we're used to. This world championships, I think we had a hundred and something [athletes]. The Olympics is going to be less than 32.”
“The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.”
Source: A Winning Edge
“The sport in 2000 wasn't as big as it is now [in 2008].”
“The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.”
“The sport is definitely growing, and has become much more competitive. When I started, you were either a former swimmer or runner who took up triathlons. Now, you have a generation of triathletes coming up that started competing at a young age - these are the people that will change the game.”
“The sport needs the cash cow back.”
“The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It's 7 × 24 × 365 × forever.”
Source: How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It
“The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation.”
“The sport of running will teach you how to master and control your will-power.”
“The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.”
Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People
“The sport of volleyball will never give you something that you can't handle; whether you do handle it is another question.”
“The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool.”
“The sport to which I owe so much has undergone profound changes, but it's still baseball. Kids still imitate their heroes on playgrounds. Fans still ruin expensive suits going after foul balls that cost five dollars. Hitting streaks still make the network news and hot dogs still taste better at the ballpark than at home.”
“The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching.”
“The sporting fields where Australia's greats began their careers are built and rebuilt with Commonwealth help, as are the halls and community centres where our most of our well-known stars first felt the magic of the stage.”
“The sporting houses needed professors, and we had so many different styles that... it wouldn't make any difference that you just came from . . . whatever your tunes were over there, we played them in New Orleans.”
“The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the skill and mastery the fish demands from the fisherman”
“The sportive, knightly battle awakens the best human characteristics. It doesn't separate, but unites the combatants in understanding and respect. He also helps to connect the countries in the spirit of peace. That's why the Olympic Flame should never die.”
“The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.”
“The sports are also hard on my body, and I do have a longstanding bad back due to an injury some years ago. I don't regret any part of it though. I love what I do and my sporting career has taken me to some wonderful places and seeing the world.”
“The sports arena Julie calls home is unaccountably large, perhaps one of those dual-event 'super venues' built for an era when the greatest quandary facing the world was where to put all the parties.”
Source: Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition
“The sports gambling crisis could have been avoided if states had taken a more careful approach to legalization. Instead, entranced by promises of easy money, they went all in.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue really sets the social standard for what people expect the perfect woman's body to look like, and a lot of those bodies usually look the same.”
“The sports, industry, trade, economy technology and science and waiting for your manifestation”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“The sports leagues and their gambling partners ... conspired with state governments to place what he calls a “landmine” in front of young people. Many of these young people will be able to avoid gambling or avoid incurring any harm from gambling. Many will not. Most do not realize how addictive it can be, how much attention, time, and money it can suck away. So they download the app onto their phone, eager to add some excitement to the games they love, not realizing this can be the start of a dangerous journey.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“The sports of children satisfy the child.”
Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by P. Cunningham