T Quotes
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“The thing is, and here we come to E. Gorey's Great Simple Theory About Art (which he has never tried to communicate to anybody else until now, so prepare for Severe Bafflement), that on the surface they are so obviously those situations that it is very difficult to see that they really are about something else entirely. This is the theory, incidentally, that anything is art, and it's the way I tell, is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it's no good having one without the other, because if you have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it's irritating.”
Source: Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neumeyer
“The thing is, ballet is a collaborative experience. Each dancer sets the scene for the next one. Even when you’re doing a solo, it’s not just about you: you are simply borrowing everyone’s attention for a few minutes, before passing it on. Ballet is about harmony. And harmony can only be achieved in the spirit of teamwork.”
Source: Kisses and Croissants
“The thing is, being lonely is like walking in the cold without a coat. It’s uncomfortable, but eventually you go numb. Once you get used to not being lonely, though, the shock of going back is like having your down comforter yanked off at six o’clock on a Minnesota December morning.”
Source: The Conspiracy of Us
“The thing is," Deeba said, eyeing Mr. Speaker, "you could only make words do what you want if it was just you deciding what they mean. But it isn't. It's everyone else, too. Which means you might want to give them orders, but you aren't in control. No one is.”
Source: Un Lun Dun
“The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.”
“The thing is, Fallon . . . I told you before to lock the door if you wanted me to stay out. Funny thing is . . .” I leaned in. “You. Never. Did.”
Source: Rival
“The thing is, Gretchen's not even doing anything wrong. It's just this dynamic that's always kind of been there with us. Basically, there's a version of me who lives in Gretchen's head, and as long as I stay within a certain radius of that, we're fine. But when I veer too far off course-I start to feel kind of hazy sometimes. Maybe I'm more liquid than most people are. I always seem to take the shape of my container. Usually, it's a sort of relief, letting Gretchen remold me.”
Source: Imogen, Obviously
“The thing is, I don't even hate cops. To tell you the truth, I actually feel a little sorry for them.”
Source: Fighting Ruben Wolfe
“The thing is, I don't know what I regret any more."
'Okay, well, let's see. You say that I am just a perception. Then why did you perceive me? Why am I — Mrs. Elm — the person you see?"
'I don't know. Because you were someone I trusted. You were kind to me.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“The thing is, I don't really have any coming-out narratives of my own. I never felt as though anyone was entitles to a red-carpet presentation of who I am and how I identify. When I initially found myself attracted to women in college, for example, I simply showed up at the next family function with my first girlfriend in tow and introduced her as such. I didn't call each family member ahead of time and instruct them to brace themselves, nor did I write lengthy letters detailing the intricacies of my new desires. Likewise, when I'm meeting people for the first time at parties or other social engagements and they post the inevitable, "So what do you do?" I respond as routinely as possible: "Oh, I work in the sex industry. You?"
I'm not trying to be provocative; rather, I've always believed that being "out" is the most powerful tool of activism available to disadvantaged minority communities, sex workers included, I find that when you approach a supposedly radical issue (queerness, nonmonogamy, atheism, gender nonconformity) with the same nonchalance as you would a less controversial topic (accounting, marriage, the weather), you give the other party permission to treat it with the same accepting ambivalence. We're pack animals, and we're constantly comparing ourselves to one another. We look for approval from our peers, and in many cases we use their reactions and opinions to help guide our own. I often observe people, who I've just disclosed to, pause to shift their eyes and gauge the receptiveness of those around them before responding. It'd be a fascinating study if it weren't so disheartening.”
Source: Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy
“The thing is, I don’t want my sadness to be othered from me just as I don’t want my happiness to be othered. They’re both mine. I made them, dammit. What if the elation is not another ‘bipolar episode’ but something I fought hard for? Maybe I jump up and down and kiss you too hard on the neck when I learn, upon coming home, that it’s pizza night because sometimes pizza night is more than enough, is my most faithful and feeble beacon. What if I’m running outside because the moon tonight is children’s-book huge and ridiculous over the line of pines, the sight of it a strange sphere of medicine?”
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“The thing is, I know it works for thousands of happy couples, but I’m just not cut out for it.. So I think I’m going to stick with the old-fashioned, crossing-of-paths, fate stuff. If love wants to find me, it will.”
Source: Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
“The thing is
I loved you so much
and I would have done everything for you
And it keeps me up on nights like this
where the moon shines brighter than
the sun’s glare in the morning sky
that you’re not here with me
And the thing is
I loved you so much
more than you deserved
and it wasn’t enough
I wasn’t enough.”
“The thing is, I never had a friend like Sohrab before. One who understood me without even trying. Who knew what it was like to be stuck on the outside because of one little thing that set you apart.”
Source: Darius the Great Is Not Okay
“The thing is I never want to be an observer, it's only in retrospect that I wish I had observed.”
“The thing is I see the world as how it could be but now how it is at this moment!”
“The thing is I'm a great believer in the perfect moment. They don't come around that often.”
“The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.”
“The thing is, if you get very depressed about something, it's hard as hell to swallow.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“The thing is, if you're an ugly goon when you're 15, you're an ugly goon for the rest of your life — until the day you die. You're always a goon, even if lots of years go by, even if you get married and have a kid, even if you're more successful than you ever thought you'd be in your wildest dreams. You're still that same goon who everybody laughed at. It never changes.”
Source: The Boy Who Never Grew Up
“The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.”
“The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs--if yours are really good ones and theirs aren't. You think if they're intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humor, that they don't give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they do. They really do.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“The thing is love is really the most important thing. That in love feeling at the beginning settles down into a different, familiar sort of love, but it has to be there right from the start, otherwise it just won't work”
Source: Mr. Maybe
“The thing is, masking isn't always good. It takes a lot of effort and energy to hide a big part of yourself, even if you're not doing it intentionally. Masking is a bit like going into survival mode. You do it because you have to, rather than because you want to; and while everyone has the ability to mask to some degree, for autistic people, we can spend most of our lives doing it without even realizing.”
Source: Bookishly Ever After
“The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.”
“The thing is, no matter how sudden or gradual a family member's death is, there never seems to be enough time to say: "Goodbye." But, then again, how does say "goodbye" to a person who loves you, sins and all?”
Source: Between Enzo and the Universe
“The thing is: no matter what, at some point, you have to leave the game behind and find out who you really are… No matter what, I just kept coming back to that night in Brockport, to that tackle I made, that one last field goal in the slush. That was the part of the game I wanted to hold in my heart forever.”
Source: One of the Boys
“The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.”
“The thing is not the thing.”
“The thing is not to follow a pattern. Follow your own pattern of feeling and thought. The thing is to accept your own life and not try to live someone else's life. Look, the thumbprint is not like any other, and the thumbprint is what you must go by.”
Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations
“The thing is not to leave unfinished business; make every day count.”
“The thing is people decide that there is nothing left for them to learn way too soon.”
Source: Petrichor
“The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.”
Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
“The thing is, she sounds fucking beautiful and I want to tell her that so badly it's giving me a headache just thinking about it, but I don't because I can't lead her on.”
Source: Hear Me Now
“The thing is some girls think they can actually change guys”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“The thing is that honestly we haven't had an audience. And we have a chance to have an audience now. Which is great because I think we've sort of evolved as a band to the point where I think we might actually be interesting to go see.”
“The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried this albatross since the age of eleven, when I started at grammar school. Not a day would pass without somebody I knew turning out to be adopted or illegitimate, or to have mothers who were about to hare off with some bloke, or to have dead fathers and shabby stepfathers. What busy lives they led. How I envied their excuses for introspection, their ear-marked receptacles for every just antagonism and noble loyalty.”
Source: The Rachel papers
“The thing is that I don't normally think in terms of manga when I'm writing. Sounds odd from someone who has is getting a reputation for doing manga related work. But I would say that my scripts are NOT manga at the stage of my writing process, they are just comic book stories in a more general sense.”
“The thing is that I had no fear; no anxiety. I had this peace come over me and I just knew that word from the Lord was truth.”
“The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event.”
“The thing is that I never felt beautiful. I really never did. I think I can change my looks and be different things, but I've never thought of myself as this face.”
“The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.”
“The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“The thing is that it is incredibly frustrating to anyone who would control it, because you can't predict the impact of any technology before you put it in place.”
“The thing is that it's always a constant reminder of how violent this country has been, always has been, you know. I'm still frustrated with these conversations: [Barack] Obama is black so that means this, that things are better, or it means that you voted for him because he's black.”
“The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult fiction, and because of this it became a very successful book, and right now it's some sort of a standard title, it's read widely in many high schools in Spain, so I think, in a way, I was a victim of my own success in the field of young adult fiction, because it was never my own natural register. I never intended to write that kind of fiction, but I became very successful at it.”
“The thing is that oftentimes, we want to be everything all at once. We want to be strong and mature, and God wants that for us, too. But just like that flowerpot had to sit in the sun and receive water day after day, we have to sit in God's presence every day, too.”
“The thing is that racism is systematic, so of course it sometimes manifested itself within the clubs. But I have certainly experienced racism outside of the clubs as well.”
“The thing is that the bullies don’t have control over you nor to they have control over the length of your life…….be who you are in the first place.”
Source: Letters to a desperate girl
“The thing is that the ego cannot cure itself of its own malady of egoism; it's already infected by the disease itself. And that is why it is necessary to go to a guru who knows God and by absorbing his consciousness into yourself, you discover that you aren't this ego. You cross that abyss and you find that you are infinite.”