T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.”
“That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.”
“That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.”
“That's what American democracy has come down to at these town hall meetings: old people and gun nuts, which is a terrible combination. I heard somebody yell 'AK-47!' and a lady yelled, 'Bingo!'”
“That's what American values and ideals are all about: We can come here and be different and celebrate different faiths and be OK with that.”
“That's what animals do all of the time; they watch out, they watch out, and I saw, "This is us now." Us, the world, we are watching out.”
“That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else.”
Source: The Chocolate War
“That's what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself.”
“That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.”
“That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.”
Source: Margherita Dolce Vita
“That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from.”
“That's what baseball is all about right there, a matter of will.”
“That's what being a demigod was all about, not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature.”
“That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.”
“That's what being a leader is all about. If the other players see you in a non-positive mind set, that affects them. I have to present an air of confidence at all times.”
“That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.”
Source: The Darkest Powers: Complete Trilogy Collection: The Summoning, The Awakening, The Reckoning
“That's what being eccentric means--being natural.”
Source: A Raisin in the Sun: And The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
“That's what being nervous and sort of out of your comfort zone does. It's the same in "The Office" when a black guy comes to the office and all he thinks is `I better show this guy I'm not a racist.' So what does he do? Only talks about black issues.”
“That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I'm trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it's over and there's one more person in the world who thinks I'm a complete and total waste of space.”
“That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference. You're not prone to measure your energies in time. You're not likely to live by equations.”
“That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.”
“That's what brings in the customers: the combination of gossip and the intricate detail about the dresses, all related as drama. It has the same effect on women, I'm told, as looking at naked women has on men.”
Source: Scandal Wears Satin
“That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.”
“That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done.”
“That's what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.”
Source: My Best Friend's Girl
“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
Source: The God of Small Things
“That's what character is, it's in the trying.”
“That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one”
“That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.”
Source: First Love and the Diary of a Superfluous Man
“That's what children do - throw food. That's not fighting. We were real men. We'd have chinned them.”
“That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.”
Source: The Innocent
“That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.”
“That's what comics journalism does better than anything else: you can get a feeling of what it was like. Like Scott McCloud says, especially with a simple drawing style, you can project yourself into the image, and imagine yourself having those experiences.”
“That's what courage is you know: being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.”
“That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place." -Jo”
“That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.”
Source: The Great Leveller: Best Served Cold, The Heroes and Red Country
“That's what cricket's all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another”
“That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.”
“That's what dating is for, after all - to learn if you're compatible with someone.”
“That's what David Caruso said to me. We were talking about the whole Emmy thing, and he said that one of the things about awards in this town is that a lot is about the drama - like the drama of the performance. And he said "Your show, The Wire, looks so real, it almost looks like a documentary. And people who aren't artists - a lot of people who vote for this stuff - don't get it."”
“That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden”
Source: Love 101: To Love Oneself Is the Beginning of a Lifelong Romance
“That's what dessert means to me: a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world.”
Source: Sweet Love
“That's what does it-- that moment where you think you're lost, and then discover that you're not, that you've never really left. There's something that happens in that incredible tiny no-time, and that something is like the revelation of learning.”
“That's what Donald Trump said when he starts talking about, "The Second Amendment people might have..." "You're not taking my guns. No matter who you appoint to the court, you're not taking my guns," is all it means, pure and simple. If everybody could just take a breath here and let's get back to who's really doing damage to our country.”
“That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.”
“That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.”
“That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.”
“That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.”
Source: Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life
“That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.”
“That's what everybody tells me. "I would've had a great comic-book collection, but my mother made me throw them away." But when I was growing up, my mother didn't care. As long as I was reading, she didn't care if my room was filled with comics. I could have saved everything. I was just too stupid to do it.”