T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The thing was gone in an instant, crashing through the underbrush, but it wasn’t alone.
Others just like it, though not as large, bounded off through the trees.
Standing there, marveling at the speed and grace of the beasts, Andrew had felt a blinding urge to run off with them.”
Source: Lovecraftiana: The Magazine of Eldritch Horror
“The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.”
“The thing we adore about these dog-whistle kerfuffles is that the people who react to the whistle always assume it's intended for somebody else. The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you're the dog.”
“The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.”
“The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.”
“The thing we can learn from the extinction of dinosaurs is that a random event in the universe can wipe us out. It does not matter whether we do the right things or not. The universe is neither benevolent nor hostile. It is thoroughly indifferent.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“The thing we fear we bring to pass.”
Source: A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings
“The thing we fought tonight… It wasn’t normal.”
Source: Lust Marked: The beginning of the End
“The thing we have to fear in this country, to my way of thinking, is the influence of the organized minorities, because somehow or other the great majority does not seem to organize. They seem to feel that they are going to be effective because of their own strength, but they give no expression of it.”
“The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“The thing we look for everywhere is, you know, music that resonates with us. This is what moves me. And hopefully my music will move someone else.”
“The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.”
Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life
“The thing we need most is each other.”
“The thing we need most is relationships. The thing we seem to suck at most is relationships.”
Source: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“The thing we need to work on as a country is our educational system. To me, that is something that our generation needs to be focused on. To make sure that for our next generation, every child - no matter what background, no matter what ethnicity, no matter whether they're whatever gender - that they are all educated to have real equal opportunity. That's number one for me. But I have no question that if it's not our generation that will make sure that that happens that it will be our children's generation.”
“The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country’s dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia’s art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.”
“The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it.”
“The thing we want for all our kids is that they be connected with a learning community and that they have strong social and familial relationships. If we can do whatever we can do to create that and to reduce bullying and to reduce the kind of pain and shame so many kids feel for so many reasons, that stuff is going to reduce drug addiction.”
“The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.”
“The thing we've learned from the last 20 years of counterterrorism is the significant value you get from removing leadership from the battlefield in degrading the organization.”
“The thing, whatever it was - and no one was ever sure afterwards whether it was a dream or a fit or what - happened at that peculiar hour before dawn when human vitality is at its lowest ebb. The Blue Hour they sometimes call it, l'heure bleue - the ribbon of darkness between the false dawn and the true, always blacker than all the rest of the night has been before it. Criminals break down and confess at that hour; suicides nerve themselves for their attempts; mists swirl in the sky; and - according to the old books of the monks and the hermits - strange, unholy shapes brood over the sleeping rooftops.
At any rate, it was at this hour that her screams shattered the stillness of that top-floor apartment overlooking the Pare Monceau. Curdling, razor-edged screams that slashed through the thick bedroom door. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")”
Source: The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
“The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.”
“The thing which disappoints me most about the human race is the extraordinary lack of substance and depth, and the avoidance of opportunities where there is a possibility of experiencing something profound.”
Source: Zen, Meditation & the Art of Shooting: Performance Edge - Sports Edition
“The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.”
“The thing which it is nothing and empty inside, will care about adornment and beauty of outside”
“The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.”
“The thing which Reagan did, which was great, was he won the people. He marginalized the media. And that's what you need, an intellectual agility.”
“The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.”
Source: The Home and the World
“The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands. . . . It is here about us or it is nowhere.”
“The thing whose acquisition ‘made’ you happy need not be stolen, lost, or broken for ‘it’ to make you unhappy.”
“The thing with 50 Words of Snow is that it was literally back-to-back from Director's Cut [also released in 2011]. It was more or less that I got to make two albums in one hit. I was already in this space in my mind to be writing and making an album.”
“The thing with America is that... however you want to denigrate them for being crass or whatever, with a film that they like and think is well written, well-made and is popular, they actually want to work with those people and want to follow that, whereas I've had nothing coming in from the UK... nothing at all. Whether that sums up the state of the industry now, I don't know. But it's strange.”
“The thing with animation is that you record the actors like a radio show and then the animators become actors in their own way because it's their job to take this puppets and make them seem alive. They bring their own personalities to the way they move these puppets.”
“The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.”
“The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.”
“The thing with Bill Shatner is he brings something unique to everything he does. He's not the obvious choice for anything, but he always brings something special to it.”
“The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you're taught to live up to a what should be that never existed - only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be - then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!”
“The thing with children is they're a bit like baking a fruitcake: you throw all the ingredients in but you never know how they're going to turn out.”
“The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off.”
“The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.”
“The thing with do-overs it’s that they don’t exist. Second chances are just another chance to mess up.”
Source: Dominion
“The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any time and someone who doesn't.”
Source: Among Others
“The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.”
“The thing with films is that you have to make something that will get people out of their houses, away from the TV set. You must touch people, say something. Otherwise, they'll stay at home.”
“The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.”
“The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.”
“The thing with healing is that we often come back more resilient --stronger in the areas we once thought were broken.”
“The thing with heat is, no matter how cold you are, no matter how much you need warmth, it always, eventually, becomes too much.”
Source: Glass Sword
“The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.”
“The thing with keeping secrets is you can’t blame people for not knowing about them.”
Source: Alive and Wells