T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The trouble with bookshops is that they are as bad as pubs. You start at one and then you drift to another, and before you know where you are you are on a gigantic book-binge. My brief case was full to bursting and I had bundles of books under both arms. I was bowed down by the weight of them.”
Source: Bodies in a Bookshop
“The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.”
“The trouble with bravery is," said Johnny. "that if you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you all the time.”
"Or," said René, "bravery is often just the action of someone who does not know what to do next, and acts out of panic.”
Source: The Caravaggio Shawl
“The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.”
“The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.”
“The trouble with celebrating Independence Day is that we tend to look back at what made this the great nation that it is and give little thought to a future that threatens that which free men hold dearest, namely freedom.”
“The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.”
Source: Marilyn Monroe in her own words
“The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.”
“The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.”
“The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.”
“The trouble with Christianity was that by about 150, there were hardly any Jews left in the Christian church, and so from that time until the last part of the twentieth century, the only people reading the gospels and interpreting the gospels and writing commentaries on the gospels were gentiles who were simply ignorant of the Jewish background, and I just thought they were prejudiced.”
“The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.”
Source: Passing
“The trouble with cliché's, some philosopher remarked, probably with a yawn, is that they are so boringly true. But "love at first sight" is never boring.”
Source: 3001: The Final Odyssey
“The trouble with climate change is it's an extraordinarily diverse and complex issue, but for example if the BBC would let me make some of the programmes I'd like to make on climate change, I bet you there would be a change of emphasis.”
“The trouble with colorblind ideologies in text and culture is that by not noticing race, writers and other creatives do the work of encoding it as taboo. While silence and evasion around race in dystopian science fiction is 'understood to be a graceful, even generous, liberal gesture', implying the inevitability of a postracial future, this silence also has the effect of confusing readers.”
Source: The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games
“The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.”
“The trouble with competitors' sycophants is they don't know where to put their tongues. Here's a suggestion: Try behind your teeth. With your mouth shut.”
Source: Kronos Rising
“The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.”
Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really had the powers claimed, they could win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science.”
“The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can’t stop!”
Source: Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies
“The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something. And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.”
Source: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
“The trouble with democracy is that 50 percent of the voters are below average.”
“The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren't ready.”
Source: We Are Okay
“The trouble with dieting is that a pound of will power takes off only an ounce of weight.”
“The trouble with dogs (supposing you don't beat or kick them, of course) is they trust you. you're the food-giver and shelter-provider. You're the one that can fish the squeaky monkey out from beneath the couch with one of your clever five-fingered paws. You are also the love-giver. The problem with that kind of unquestioning trust is that it carries a weight of responsibility. Mostly that's okay. In our current situation it was anything but.”
“The trouble with doing nothing is that you can never take any time off.”
“The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.”
“The trouble with dying...is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending.”
Source: A Spool of Blue Thread
“The trouble with Earl Barrett is that he's one paced .... Zooommmmm.”
“The trouble with eating Italian is that 5 or 6 days later, you're hungry again.”
“The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.”
“The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.”
Source: Save Me the Waltz: A Novel
“The trouble with emotional pain is, you can't see the wound. But it's still there. It's real.”
Source: Rainbirds
“The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.”
“The trouble with entering the upper echelon is you have to work harder to stay there.”
Source: The Paper Chase
“The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.”
“The trouble with everything, these days, for me, is time. There is only one me. There are a ridiculous number of demands on my time. There are so many things I'm trying to do. It's so much more about when I'm going to get time to do it, if I get time.”
“The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.”
Source: Endless Love
“The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.”
“The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.”
“The trouble with fashions is you want to fuck the women in their fashions but when the time comes they always take them off so they don't get wrinkled.
Face it, the really great fucks in a man's life was when there was no time to take yr clothes off, you were too hot and she was too hot - none of yr Bohemian leisure, this was middleclass explosions against snowbanks, against walls of shithouses in attics, on sudden couches in the lobby -
Talk about yr hot peace.”
Source: Book of Sketches
“The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”
Source: The Genius and the Goddess: A Novel
“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”
“The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season.”
“The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.”
“The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.”
“The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.”
“The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night.”
“The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.”