T Quotes
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“That's the thing about terrorism - it works. Especially for the terrorists - they might not get what they want but it feels damn good trying.”
Source: Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel
“That's the thing about the internet. It's really good at giving you pointless facts like how many horses a star owns, but not important things like how to invade his trailer.”
Source: Just One Wish
“That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid.”
“That's the thing about this game -- you get a little monkey on your back. You go 0-for-3, you go 0-for-6, pretty soon you start pressing. You keep trying a little harder, and the harder you try, the worse it gets. So, anytime you can break out of it by getting a base hit, it feeds confidence.”
“That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other.”
“That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you could have a zombie on one side of a chain link fence and you could be on the other side and they could be trying to get to you and six feet down could be an open door and they will not go through that door in the fence. That's why they're so scary.”
“That's the thing I love about sports: sports force you to quit. You can't pursue your dream till you're 46. When it comes to acting, writing, comedy, nobody ever stops you.”
“That's the thing I loved about drag queens, life was a constant movie; no matter how ridiculously things didn't match they would sacrifice everything for the pose, and I was definitely into the pose.”
Source: Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory
“That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal-unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space.”
Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.”
Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go
“That's the thing that always stuck out to me - the idea that quantity becomes quality. I always took it to mean if you do anything enough, if you keep putting effort in, eventually something will happen, with or without you. You don't have to have faith when you start out, you just have to dedicate yourself to practice as if you have it.”
Source: Someday, Someday, Maybe: A Novel
“That's the thing that most people don't realize. In real life, comedians aren't funny. They save it. They save it up.”
“That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?”
“That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.”
“That's the thing with independent cinema: They all get good reviews, and they don't make money. Some of them are good. Some are great. And some are terrible.”
“That's the thing with love: It's going to be wrong until it's right.”
“That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.”
“That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.”
“That's the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise.”
“That's the thing with women's movies - there's so much about kind of catfighting. And my experience is women aren't - look, we all get in fights with people, but it's not that face-to-face aggression.”
“That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.”
Source: Company
“That's the thing, the only "L" I take is a learn. You know what I'm saying, I never lose. That's just my mentality is just like we manifest everything in our lives and we pray and we go get what we just prayed for.”
“That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find.”
“That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.”
Source: Hana: A Delirium Short Story
“That's the tragedy of the rich: They don't need anything.”
“That's the translucent life. You are continuously discovering how you can ooze more Spirit into your personal life and there's no end to that process. It goes on and on and deepens and deepens and deepens.”
“That's the tricky thing about being bonded to someone for life. Blake and his dad are bonded like I'm bonded with Erin. We're irrevocably tied together by history, a history that can never be erased. Even if you want to deny it, even it you want to pretend it never existed, it will always be a part of you. It will always, in some way, define who you are.”
Source: Something Like Fate
“That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.”
“That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.”
Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding
“That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't stop themselves from spinning it into something better; something prettier, with more of a pattern to it.”
Source: Here Lies Arthur
“That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move.”
“That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.”
“That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'”
“That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.”
Source: Rabbit Redux
“That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.”
Source: Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker
“That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.”
“That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown.”
Source: Shopaholic Abroad: (Shopaholic Book 2)
“That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win.”
Source: Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (woman) Writer
“That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.”
“That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together.”
Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.”
“That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.”
Source: North Child
“That's the trouble with Nick. The only time he opens his mouth is to change feet.”
“That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.”
Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)
“That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.”
Source: THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN
“That's the trouble with the conventional doctors. They always say, 'How does it work?' but often there isn't any neat little answer...Something simply works...We don't really know how it works. We say we do. We know one or two things we can see and measure.”
“That's the trouble with the suburbs: it's not a city, so you're not anonymous, and it's not a small town, so that people really care about you, but everybody kind of knows each other's business, so you're very judged.”
“That's the trouble with the world we live in. It's full of people just doing their job and ignoring what's really going on. Care about the rainforest until they get a couple of kids and enough money for a gas guzzling car, or some hardwood dining furniture. Watch all those wildlife programmes and coo over the furry animals, but still eat meat and poultry that was raised in conditions of unbelievable cruelty.”
“That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.”
“That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one”