T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue.”
“The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.”
“The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.”
“The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children . . . the blindness of the unpitiful - these were my terrors. But not the crash of thunder overhead, not the bolts of fire from the clouds.”
“The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the work to such an extent that the work itself... felt as if a living organism was posited there on the canvas, on this surface... That's truly... the act of creation.”
“The things I find most beautiful about a person are almost never physical.”
“The things I had were mine and some of them were broken, but they were real. They were so very far from nothing.”
“The things I have
are nameless,
old and true;
they may not be named;
few may live and know.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“The things I have never told anyone absolutely define me and isolate me, the things that I alone know about myself guarantee my boundaries. Here, this is me, there, is everybody else, the people who do not know the things I have never confessed.”
Source: Orlanda
“The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.”
“The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone!”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings
“The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.”
“The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.”
“The things I love, And the things I hate, Are all inside my head, Still not content with what I waste, And whatever pleases me I chase. So when do I stop this haste?”
Source: Narcissistic Romanticism
“The things I never say never get me into trouble.”
“The things I own now haven’t yet proven themselves should the bottom fall out of the life I’m currently living. I know that I’m the adaptable one and the things are not what will make or break me, but dammit, you can’t logic away an emotional bond like the one I’ve forged with my stuff.”
Source: The Trouble With Trying to Save an Assassin
“The things I really cared about - poverty, the Great Society, civil rights - were all being drained away by the Vietnam War. The line that keeps running through my mind is the line I never spoke: "I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral."”
“The things I really learned, I learned from watching my parents. They take care of business. Always have.”
“The things I saw and things I missed-
The many, many bloody things I fucking missed-
It’s just another morning; another morning when I wish I wasn’t here.”
Source: The Damned Utd
“The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where there were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to "propaganda".”
“The things I see every day inspire my sound and lyrics, like certain people and situations that stick out in my mind. There are also certain musicians I love whose music and styles inspire me.”
“The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.”
“The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane - and it's trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.”
“The things I talk about in my comedy are my experiences. I just do what I know.”
“The things I thought were so important -- because of the effort I put into them -- have turned out to be of small value. And the things I never thought about, the things I was never able to either to measure or to expect, were the things that mattered.”
Source: A Thomas Merton Reader
“The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.”
Source: Just Kids
“The things I try to do with Surfrider Foundation, SurfAid, Love Hope Strength, which is a cancer foundation, I try to do as many benefits and fundraising things as I possibly can. It's so important, if you have any kind of a voice, or any way to make a difference, to do that. So, I'm trying to do that, and have fun in the moment, and live life, and hope it all comes together.”
“The things I want from you, darlin’, will give you nightmares, ones like you’ve never had before. A nightmare that will have you begging me not to wake you up.”
--Lucca”
Source: Lucca
“The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.”
“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln
“The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.”
“The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.”
“The things I would do to that boy. I mean, not now that I know you're interested in him. But, oh, sweet holy Lord, I would ride that one-legged pony all the way around the corral." "Kaitlyn," I said. "Sorry. Do you think you'd have to be on top?" "Kaitlyn," I said.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.”
“The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.”
“The things I'm grateful for are: I had the one thing that I feel really lucky about, which is that I made something, I made art, that truly - in a weird way - truly comforted me and comforted a lot of people. And I'm really grateful that I got to have that experience.”
“The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.”
“The things I'm making and doing I really like and think are interesting; I'm drawn to them.”
“The things I'm passionate about are beauty and fashion.”
“The things I'm saying in my records are always me. I write about things in my life that I'm experiencing. When you hear the personal meaningful records that aren't about partying, they stem from my life.”
“The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair.”
“The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years
of work before they took off.”
“The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.”
“The things in our lives that die and can't be laid to rest hurt the most.”
“The things in themselves (or the thing in itself) do not exist in the noumenal realm; they are only the potential of noumenal. The Noumenal exercises its potential in the phenomenal realm. There is no way to experience a thing in itself because appearances are not direct reflections or copies of ideal forms/ideas nor the appearances of things in themselves, but the expressions of the noumenal through phenomenal. Appearances do not have the corresponding reality of the things in themselves in the noumenal but are the products of the absolute potential of the noumenal.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.”
“The things keeping you back-these embarrassing, boring, stupid obstacles-are the heart of what it is to be human. They’re the whole reason for making and needing art. So you might as well go ahead and begin in whatever way you can right now.”
“The things left unsaid to people we care about, and the void those unspoken words leave, often have more impact than what is said.”
Source: Burn My Shadow
“The things man do publicly, women do secretly. The things women do secretly . Man do publicly. When it comes to moral compass . We are all the same.”
“The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.”
Source: The Art of Eating