T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The 'thin blue line' is nothing more than the no snitching policy found in any other criminal gang.”
“The thin blue line of service,
Is not for self-serving narcissists.
When your sole concern is society,
Only then can you uphold justice.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
“The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.”
Source: Neverwhere
“The thin how-to book belonging to Smittie had a dark and perplexing title—HOW TO COMMIT SUICIDE EFFECTIVELY EVERY TIME.”
Source: The Beasts of Success
“The thin line between good and evil lays in the decisions we make”.”
“The thin line between life and death is still under construction.”
Source: Adventus
“The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.”
“The thin red jellies within you or within me, the bones and the
marrow in the bones,
The exquisite realization of health;
O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only,
but of the soul,
O I say now these are the soul!”
Source: Leaves of Grass and Other Writings
“The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.”
“The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.”
“The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it got on the air It's a very specific rhythm and a very specific banter.”
“The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.”
“The thing about 'Star Trek' is that it is not judgmental. You can do what ever you want, within reason.”
“The thing about 'Watchmen' that people should know is that when it came out there was absolutely nothing like it. Up until then, comics were about the same thing: a guy in tights fighting another guy in tights and saving the girl - that was it.”
“The thing about 50 is that you've clearly reached a point where you have more of your life behind you than ahead of you, and that's a very different place to be in. You're thinking, 'I've done most of it.' I don't like that feeling. But it makes you evaluate your life and go, 'Am I doing what I want to do? Am I spending my time the way I want?'”
“The thing about a cartoon is, you can do whatever you want. The tightrope that we are walking on 'The Simpsons' and 'Futurama' is "How do you continue to surprise the audience, but make them good surprises?" Not every surprise is good, but you want to continue jolting people.”
“The thing about a cavity search is this: it has nothing to do with the dentist.”
“The thing about a deep summer’s evening is that it is filled with an array of sounds that never intrude on the silence because they were created to accentuate it, not fill it.”
“The thing about a diversion is that it has to be diverting.”
Source: Artemis Fowl
“The thing about a friendly smile is not just that it makes people like you but that it makes them like themselves.”
“The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.”
“The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.”
“The thing about a marine is that they can be the nicest men and women you will ever meet, but when it comes to their duty there are none fiercer.”
Source: The Licen Sepulcher
“The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.”
“The thing about a momentary rush is that temporary sources of life always run out. They quickly lose their appeal and aren’t life-giving anymore. But there are things that will last for eternity, things we can always count on. These are the things of God, the fruit of who He is: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23).”
Source: Live
“The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical.”
“The thing about a pick-up line is, even if it works, then what? I just figure you unapologetically be yourself, and if it works, cool.”
“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”
Source: Turtles All the Way Down
“The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.”
Source: The Things They Carried
“The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.”
“The thing about acting is even if you get technically more skilled at what you do, every time you begin a film or a play you're terrified. You don't know if you're going to pull it off. Every film and every story has its own set of challenges. I've never felt like, oh yeah, that's it, nailed it! You can never sit and rest. That's why it's such an exciting job. It's beginning again every time you begin again. New story, new character, new place, new time, new director. It's like moving to a different planet and trying to figure out how to live there.”
“The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.”
“The thing about albums is just coming up with new material. I just got tired of that syndrome of putting out an album and then some reviewer claims that this song or that song has something to do with x y or z.”
“The thing about alcohol, though non-drinkers, non-alcoholics and reformed alcoholics may falsely dispute this, is that each day, or night on booze, is a different journey, the destination being a mystery, but quite possibly the final one.”
“The thing about all complexes, splinter personalities, and fractal assignments is that they have no imagination. The can only replay the old events, scripts, and moribund outcome of their origin. But we do have an imagination, the power to image something new, or at least alternative.”
Source: Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives
“The thing about all good horror movies is that the fans expect a couple of inside jokes. Maybe I'm supposed to be saying how terrified I was while making it, but it was really fun.”
“The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.”
“The thing about all these charities is that who sees where the money goes? I don't and you don't. For all I know, the president of Make a Wish just used all the money to buy himself a mansion and a yacht. That's why I keep all of my money for myself, at least then I know I'm doing good for at least one person for sure.”
“The thing about Alzheimer's is that it's... it's sort of like all these little, small deaths along the way, before they actually physically die.”
“The thing about Americans,” she said, “is that you’re very concerned about everything all the time.”
Source: The End of Your Life Book Club
“The thing about an executive order - there has never been an executive order that a Congress couldn't say, "You know, we don't like that so we're going to do something else," if there is a majority in Congress to do something else.”
“The thing about angel investing, which I get into in the book a lot is, you actually don't have to understand the idea, you don't have to know if the idea is going to win, you just need to know if a founder's going to win in their life. I can just tell by looking at somebody if they'll be successful in their life. I don't even have to have a conversation. I just look at their eyes while they're talking and it becomes very clear to me.”
“The thing about animals that speaks to me so much is that my passion for the animals and against animal abuse is based on the knowledge that these creatures which think and feel can't speak for themselves. I feel it is my responsibility to speak for those who can't speak for themselves.”
“The thing about animation is that it's a constantly changing process. They talk in terms of sequences - so there's like thirty different sequences in a movie and at anytime those were shifting or being taken out or being replaced.”
“The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere.”
“The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn and in terms of acting, there's a lot to learn. The bigger culture you have in life, the better actor you'll be. You'll have more to pull on.”
“The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn.”
“The thing about architecture is that it's an art [you] simply learn more by doing more. It's one of those things that is really not an art about thinking, but doing. So in a way, what it has done is greatly intensify the way that I build.”
“The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.”
“The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless.”