T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The stories Essie most loved were ones about the Skyweaver, a goddess who spun souls into stars and wove them into the sky.”
Source: The Caged Queen
“The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.”
“The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal.”
“The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes their situations really seriously, and you feel like you're just dropped into a different world.”
“The stories I read, strengthen my spirit in any situation.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple little nothing-sentences, lines I won't possibly remember, because they simply functioned, didn't draw attention to themselves, were properly humble.”
“The stories I tell myself about myself are contexts for what I believe is possible. These stories affect not only my attitudes about myself and others, but affect my behavior in what could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
Source: ChangeAbility: How artists activists and awakeners navigate change
“The stories I used to read where men transformed into women suggested a kind of instantaneous loss—a sudden vacuum where their manhood had once been, both literally and figuratively. But what has happened to me has actually been a slow blossoming, a colonization of myself with myself. The estrogen dissolving under my tongue will enter my bloodstream and slowly disseminate throughout my body, just as the other pills I am taking will shut down production of testosterone in other parts of my body. Sooner or later, my cells will realize that estrogen is now my dominant hormone and begin to soften my skin, to grow my breasts, to thicken my hair.
We are, none of us, a single set of destinies set by the accident of our birth. We can change and be changed. Our bodies know the language they must speak to make us the people we must become.”
Source: Woodworking
“The stories I would hear from men who were going through divorces and in child custody battles, the lies their wives told about them being predators, that they had fondled or abused the children, and these guys didn't know what to do. It wasn't true. They had no idea how to combat it. And I said, "A large part of this is modern feminism. You've gotta understand it."”
“The stories I write are not invented. They are remembered. Every creature, every rune, every whispered gealdor in the Ella Trilogy comes from a place deep inside me that was shaped by Swedish soil, ancient Nordic tales, and a childhood filled with the kind of magic that never truly leaves you.”
Source: The Tale of Oknytt & Gray Gnomes
“The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.”
“The stories I'm interested in are challenging ones, and maybe that requires a little bit more of you. I love my job and I want to earn the right to do it every single day.”
“The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.”
“The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction.”
“The stories just keep showing up in my head - and I really hope they keep it up! I write what I'm told, and as long as I do that, I don't have any problems with writer's block or anything. The issues come only when I try to force the story or the people in it to do things they don't want to. As a control freak, it's funny that I've learned to be so comfortable with being out of control in what is arguably one of the most important areas of my life!”
“The stories leaders and others tell, few of which are true, are a lousy foundation on which to base any sort of science, and we know how to accomplish behavioral change and the importance of priming, informational saliency, and social networks. Producing inspiration and other good feelings doesn't last very long.”
“The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough to look strange because you have no teeth. It was enough to be called a witch. If it came to that, the book never gave you the evidence of anything. It talked about "a handsome prince"... was he really, or was it just because he was a prince that people called handsome? As for "a girl who was as beautiful as the day was long"... well, which day? In midwinter it hardly ever got light! The stories don't want you to think, they just wanted you to believe what you were told.”
“The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.”
“The stories of everyday heroes, those whose names may never grace the pages of history, yet whose lives are equally significant, offer perhaps the most poignant reflections. In their struggles and joys, their victories and defeats, we see our own journey mirrored. They teach us that the dance of ego and essence is not reserved for the extraordinary alone, but is an integral part of every human story.”
Source: The 7 Laws of Quantum Power
“The stories of failure are commonplace. Reporting that, five years after locating there, IBM fired most of its employees in Dubuque and Columbia despite a combined $84 million in tax breaks, the author of a Bloomberg News story noted that this scenario has 'played out often across America: Big company comes to town, provides boost to the local economy and then leaves.' The Kelo case ended similarly: New London provided Pfizer with significant subsidies only to see the company depart a few years later.”
“The stories of old women are the quiet, overlooked fabric of history.”
Source: Alice Isn't Dead
“The stories of others who fought back never stopped circling their plans. Retribution was inevitable. Justice was fated. Capitulation was unthinkable.”
Source: Burn Down Master's House
“The stories of others who fought back never stopped circling their plans. Retribution was inevitable. Justice was fated. Capitultion was unthinkable.”
Source: Burn Down Master's House
“The stories of others who have pushed past their hardships and difficulties to become great should be terrific encouragement for whatever situation you are facing and whatever part of your story you have to write yourself through.”
Source: Suck Less, Do Better: The End of Excuses & the Rise of the Unstoppable You
“The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.”
Source: Profiles in Courage
“The stories of The End of Free Love mark a great beginning. They are seductive and migratory, tapped into our earliest sense of the world. Steinberg inhabits our first bewilderments, the terrors and the tenderness that shape our lives. To read her is to fall out of the daily into a fresh elation.”
“The stories of the past are the drivers of the future.
To know these stories is to be prepared for the future.”
“The stories of unicorns are buried under myth, legend and magic but did you know that they cannot survive in a place where Love, Truth and Freedom refuse to exist?”
“The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for reviews those are the stories of my life. I am telling the stories of my life in a true way.”
“The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere, there are these tests that have been written by multiple people.”
“The stories others tell about you and the stories you tell about yourself: which come closer to the truth? Is it so clear that they are your own? Is one an authority on oneself? but that really isn't the question that concerns me. The real question is: In such stories, is there really a difference between true and false? In stories about the outside, surely. But when we set out to understand someone on the inside? Is that a trip that ever comes to an end? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?”
“The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.”
Source: Shut Your Eyes Tight
“The stories shatter. Or you wear them out or leave them behind. Over time the story of the memory loses its power. Over time you become someone else. Only when the honey turns to dust are you free.”
Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“The stories surrounding eating durians remind us that literature should incorporate low culture, bringing it closer to lived reality. These legends come not from the pens of the elite, but are assembled from the words of the masses, both written and spoken, passed from one person to another—the only way to create a text this deep and compelling.”
Source: Durians Are Not the Only Fruit
“The stories teach them valuable life lessons. That good things happen to bad people. That it’s possible to make a bad situation even worse if you don’t think it through. That parents are clueless except when they’re not. That it’s good to try new things even when a new thing is kind of disgusting, because new experiences make you a well-rounded person. That art can be transcendent. That lust is all-powerful, that drugs are fun, and that not everyone who does them is a loser. That losing people is part of life. That where comedy goes, tragedy isn’t far behind. That everyone has issues with their bodies, but some take it too far, almost to death. That fear can be exhilarating. That boys are assholes. That it’s important to look forward and never look back…”
Source: Perfect Fifths
“The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story.”
“The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.”
“The stories that confirm that bigger story are brought in and easily digested. But there's another set of stories that are always there, which do not confirm, but which complicate and contradict what we think we already know. And I'm always attracted to that. There doesn't seem to be much of a market for it. Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or figure or theme, obviously they're hard to digest.”
“The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip.”
Source: The Secret Chord
“The stories that have had the deepest impact on me and one of the reasons I was excited to finally get to write my story, it's when I can read the story of others who are following Christ, who are committed, but just are still on the journey. They haven't arrived, and can be honest about that process.”
“The stories that I like, the ones that make me jealous and fill me with wild desire to write just like them have the same dazzling logic as the old Basque man; there's a piece missing, and that gap transforms them into a myth.”
Source: Hipotermia
“The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.”
“The stories that I want to tell are completely, well somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.”
“the stories that produced [Trump] were always contested. There were always other stories, ones that insisted that money is not what’s valuable, and that all of our fates are intertwined with one another and with the health of the natural world… while Trump is the logical culmination of the current neoliberal system, the current neoliberal system is not the only logical culmination of the human story”
Source: No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
“The stories that spread today empower us and give us belief in our own heroic potential.”
“The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections of meanings and affections, that lend a visitor the illusion that something of the owner of this space lives on between these walls, even if the owner is no more.”
Source: The Library at Night
“The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.”
“The stories they don’t want you to read? Read them twice. The truths they tell you are too complex? Learn them deeply. That’s how systems begin to crack.”
“The stories we are told as children do, undoubtedly, mark us for life. They are often stories of dark and terrible things, and we are usually told them just before the lights are turned out and we are left alone; but we love them. We love them when we first hear them, and even when we are grown, and think we have forgotten them entirely, they never lose their power over us.”
Source: Skin Lane
“The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.”