T Quotes
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“The thing about women is that they got liberated too fast. They never learned to be straightforward about life because they had to sneak around for about a thousand years tricking men into doing things they wanted. So they manipulate you instead of telling you what they want, so you never know where the hell you are. And then they get mad at you and bitch.”
Source: Manhunting
“The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.”
Source: Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)
“The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. Its a nice problem to have.”
“The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming.”
“The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.”
Source: The Dispossessed
“The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe - in Nazi Germany and Poland and Auschwitz and the other camps - but, no one really talks about the camps that were here in the United States.”
“The thing about wounded people is wounded people are scared that those wounds are going to end up killing them. They pretend like they're not there, or they ignore them.”
“The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be successful, and really it's the wrong thing. It's not a profession.”
“The thing about writing is not to talk, but to do it; no matter how bad or even mediocre it is, the process and production is the thing, not the sitting and theorizing about how one should write ideally, or how well one could write if one really wanted to or had the time.”
Source: Letters Home
“The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.”
“The thing about writing or making art is that I'm not thinking about that stuff while I'm doing it. Like the driver's ed kid, in retrospect I see that that was meaningful, and I felt close to him in that way, but at the time I just thought it was fun to draw, and that's all it was. I think that's what's weird about life and about making art. You have to talk about it later. I guess I should be prepared to talk about it now. That is why I'm here. But again, pass.”
“The thing about you Christians, is that you are so unlike your Christ.”
“The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.”
“The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence. And Zen. suggests that we may be driving toward one or the other on a cosmic scale. Driving toward them because, one way or the other, as madmen or innocents, we are already there. It might be good to open our eyes and see.”
“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”
“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”
“The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.”
“The thing (as one) no longer throws its shadow upon another thing; instead, it throws its shadow upon itself, thus becoming, at the same time, the thing and its shadow. When the sun is at its zenith, things are not simply exposed ("naked", as it were); they are, so to speak, dressed in their own shadows.”
Source: The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two
“The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.”
“The thing between men and women is not about power or equality. It is about differentiation and respect.”
“The thing Clay saw, the thing he now understood, was that the darkness of man was not an illusion. Men and women – the bold and the brave, the anxious, the timid, the poor, the wealthy, the sincere and the shallow – all hoped that evil was an illusion, but it was not.”
Source: Bad Signs
“The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.”
Source: Minority Report
“The ‘thing’ determines the pronoun, not the pronoun the ‘thing.”
“The thing didn’t happen. It wasn’t real. But the feeling is…”
Source: In Limbo
“The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.”
Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself.”
“The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.”
“The thing for me is, what if one returns to these maxims, these rather simplistic maxims "Be the change you want to see in the world." Because what canvas have we but the self for these kind of explorations, ultimately.”
“The thing for me though, is that songs are good depending on the memories I have with them.”
“The thing for me, and I can only really judge this by what I respond to myself as an audience member, I really only respond to a movie if I'm interested in the people who are in it. It's really that simple. If I'm not, then it's all noise.”
“The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on your laptop, but you need to have a limber mind and you need to be able to write without judging what you've written, at least right away, and without editing right away.”
“The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.”
Source: CliffsComplete Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“The thing for us to do is to pray without ceasing; once having come into the presence of God, never to leave it; to abide in His presence and to live, steadily, unbrokenly, continuously, in the midst of whatever distractions or trials, with and in Him. God grant such a life to every one of us!”
Source: Faith and Life
“The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not. But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.”
Source: The Whole Sermons of Jeremy Taylor ...: And, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living and Holy Dying : with a Biographical Memoir
“The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me.”
“The thing from inside my soul started to sing.
It sounded like suicide.”
Source: Sempiternal
“The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.”
“The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.”
“The thing he most compulsively desired, most stubbornly searched and strove for, was granted to him, but more abundantly than is good for a human being. Initially all he dreamed of and wished for, it later became his bitter lot. Those who live for power are destroyed by power, those who live for money by money; service is the ruin of the servile, pleasure the ruin of the pleasure-seeker. Thus it was Steppenwolf's independence that proved his downfall.”
Source: Steppenwolf
“The thing he was afraid of, he was afraid somebody'd say something smarter than he had.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“The thing he wished for most was a thing he had never wished for at all, not until he had discovered her. And it came true that night, and many nights after. A brief and shining span of happiness, it was the pivot point around which his whole life spun.”
“The thing I absolutely hate is when directors don't know what they want, and then they ask you to do it this way, and then maybe that way, and maybe that way, because they haven't made up their minds what they want. So you're running around in circles trying to give them what they want.”
“The thing I absolutely love about food is it's a common thread that connects us no matter what culture we come from.”
“The thing I admire most
about you
is no matter how hard,
or how much the world
has tried to
beat you,
break you,
destroy you,
and throw you to the wolves
you are still here,
turning all your pain
all your suffering
into armor,
into determination,
into weapons
and earning the respect
of that same pack of wolves
that were meant to rip you
limb from limb.”
Source: Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty
“The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.”
“The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.”
“The thing I always say is that I wasn't going out reaching for roles, I wasn't fighting for roles - people came to me. They always came to me.”
“The thing I always say to any writer that I'm working with is: Just make sure that in any argument, EVERYONE is right. I want every single person arguing a righteous side of the argument. That makes interesting drama.”
“The thing I always tell my audiences all the time is that I'm just two steps ahead of you on a good day. And I might be two steps behind you on a bad day.”
“The thing I always thought of myself as was an actress. I never thought: I want to be. It was always: I am.”