T Quotes
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“That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.”
Source: Answered Prayes
“That's the quickest way to my heart: Laughter.”
“That's the rational premise behind my spending hours of billable time adjusting my Facebook preferences. The real reason, of course, for all this stuff, is that it provides a way to blow off work you should be doing, while creating the illusion that you are achieving something.”
“That's the real beauty of chanting - you directly connect with God. I have no doubt that by saying Krishna over and over again, He can come and dance on the tongue. The main thing, though, is to keep in touch with God.”
“That's the real endeavor: to try to create that direct conduit from the pure consciousness of your creative voice to the person who's a craftsman who can go into the world and consistently deliver new things worth paying attention to.”
“That's the real excellent scary part, that feeling, and that feeling won't come if the lady from next door is there and your mom won't ride the ride, because what brings on that feeling most is when your mom rides wedged in tight with you and your brother on nights like this, when your mom will scream the excellent scream, the scream that people you see in snatches on the boardwalk stop and stare for, the scream that stops the ride next door, the scream that tells us to our hearts the bolts have finally broken.”
Source: The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories
“That's the real joy, when somebody else comes up with something that you haven't even thought of, that's better than what you would have thought of, and you get to ride that. The joy of discovering that is what would make me want to show-run again. It's the best team sport, ever.”
“That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?”
Source: The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz
“That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.”
“That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.”
“That's the reality in the Catholic Church today You don't want to build something that will be OK for now, when you know this large population is going to get bigger.”
“That's the reality of it. Everybody has a big two or three. The health of those big two or three ... there's a lot riding on it.”
“That's the reality of what they're going to sell them to the Treasury for.”
“That's the reality, and you can't overlook it. Rod can be a free agent, but we don't want get ahead of ourselves. Rod is the starter now and at some point we'll address that. Rod's got the job and the experience and you hope Gerald learns from him.”
“That's the really frustrating thing, but also the fixable thing. My theory why no one notices is that that's the [women's roles] ratio thing they grew up with. It's just been that way forever, so they don't see it.”
“That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.”
Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
“That's the reason I believe in the power of prayer, because I believe you have to be able to first believe in a being superior to you, You have to believe in God and once you're able to believe in God and embrace the greatness of the creator, then you're able to believe in yourself and embrace the greatness that God put into you and each of us, and you're able to tap into that. But there will be days.”
“That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.”
“That's the reason I'm not the one that's dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.”
“That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.”
“That's the reason you want to become a star as an actor, to be able to have more control of your destiny.”
“That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that.”
“That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.”
Source: Other Women
“That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.”
Source: When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions
“That's the sad thing about it, is that you don't know. And you certainly don't know when you quickly meet somebody. But even as you know somebody longer, it's really hard to know. Obviously you go on your gut feeling but that can be wrong too. ANd it's terrible to have to be wary about people, because it is not my nature, but I've been burned a few times and you just have to careful.”
“That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size.”
“That's the same thing that is making me like George W. Bush. "He was nice. I know he was nice. He didn't know what he was doing but he was nice."”
“That's the scary part about TV, how you'll feel about it in six years.”
“That's the scary thing about hope," she said. "If you let it go too long it turns into faith.”
Source: Coyote Blue: A Novel
“That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and inner desires. Humans craving what they can't have and those secret appetites transforming them into beasts, or even killers.”
“That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole world, and you don't write for ten people, or two. You write for just one person.”
Source: Bluebeard: A Novel
“That's the secret of Jesus. You watch Jesus and you see he never did "withdraw" and then "attack." All of the time people wanted him to do it and in many ways, but he would not. Then to the body of believers he said, "This will show everyone that you are my disciples, if you love one another," but he had already said, "Love one another as I have loved you." So that's the model.”
“That's the secret to a movie career - just keeping an open mind.”
“That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.”
“That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence.”
Source: How to Change Your Life in 30 Seconds - Compleat
“That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973.”
“That's the shame about Miles Copeland; he's evil, but he's got a heart of gold.”
“That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.”
“That's the sound design. I watched it sixty times because we were constantly tweaking. The same thing comes twice, right? Once it comes in the beginning when he's about to discover that he needs to come out and one is the dream where he's flattered (??) and then he comes out. The last one, instead of going bigger, we made it smaller. We removed elements and thinned it out. So it doesn't drive him. He drives the music rather than the other way around.”
“That's the sound we developed, and that's how we played. It took us a while, but we found it.”
“That's the spirit, one part brave, three parts fool.”
“That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.”
“That's the statement of the culture of England and Britain that someone would try to con a personal statement out of you to then be broadcast everywhere for everyone to debate.”
“That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.”
“That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.”
“That's the storyboard that we have in the beginning [of Valerian]. It's an easy shot. It's just a spaceship coming in. That's the first layout. On the first layout, we see the timing of the shot and the speed. It starts to get some shadows, and we see that everything is moving in the back.”
“That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.”
Source: We, the Drowned
“That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one”
Source: Vanishing Acts
“That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.”