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 I want for my life. I want to go to Peshawar... Because there's more past than present there. Two and a half thousand years of history beneath its soil. How long a list of reasons do you need?”
Source: A God in Every Stone
“That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.”
Source: Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works
“That's what I want to see, and that's what Trump is calling for, to take the power back from Washington, D.C.”
“That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do.”
Source: Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee
“That's what I wanted for myself for even just a little while-to be unaware of the rest of the world. I needed some time.”
“That's what I wanted! I wanted to be an athlete, I wanted the girls to like me, and I wanted to be able to get good grades in school, and this man said I could do all that.”
“That's what I was gonna say. It seems like songwriters should express who they are through what they're doing rather than trying to go legit in that way.”
“That's what I was supposed to say.”
“That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.”
“That's what I would like to do until the end of time, to go on scribbling my articles on the third floor of the Sloan Building, in between playing tennis and drinking coffee at my other study in the Concord Avenue branch of Burger King.”
“That's what I'd call him if he was my dog. Jacket-humper. Kinda had a ring to it. Although it seemed a little long for vet visits and intros to lady dogs.”
“That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.”
“That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.”
Source: Identical
“That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. Kaeleigh wants to believe in me. I am her twin, forever alive inside her. And when she needs me, I am always here.”
Source: Identical
“That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians.”
“That's what I'm doing here, throw out New York and California, Donald Trump wins the popular vote by nearly three million votes. But you can't throw out New York and California. This is exactly why we have the Electoral College. Had there been no Electoral College and had the election be defined by the popular vote, I guarantee you that the two states where the candidates would have been all the time are New York and California. There would have been some time in Texas and they would have ignored the vast majority of people in the country.”
“That's what I'm gonna do: quit gradually...I'm gonna lose one lung; little while later I'm gonna lose the other one.”
“That's what I'm hoping we can all do, is come together in a spirit of prayer.”
“That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.”
“That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.”
Source: Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels
“That's what I'm trying to get over: the idea that anarchism offers a description of equitable relations that go way back rather than a hypothesis of what the future should look like.”
“That's what I've always loved about music, that I could go be another guy for two hours. But ultimately it all comes back to: do you have the songs, can you sing them, do you have a great band that can play them with you? You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a half or two hours. I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.”
“That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.”
“That's what I've decided I am. A seeker of wisdom and truth.”
“That's what I've found through yoga: yoga helps us to sort of rewire the mind so that we can literally become more mindful of the conversation we're having on the back end, what we're telling ourselves.”
“That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.”
Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
“That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.”
“That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.”
“That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.”
“That's what is most satisfying, is having overcome that pain. Pain that is so intense that when you finish, it feels like you're going to die. That's what I wanted, and that's what I got.”
“That's what is really cool about this whole new wave of makeup artistry and people on Instagram and YouTube: It's about doing it for yourself and experimenting. People don't wear makeup to impress people or because they'll be seen in public. It's more of a hobby now, just because it's fun.”
“That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic group of songs. You do have some almost pop songs in there, but you do have your traditional country, story songs. You have your ballads, your happy songs, your sad songs, your love songs, and your feisty songs.”
“That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.”
“That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.”
Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.”
“That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.”
Source: How They Met and Other Stories
“That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.”
“That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.”
“That's what it is to be a grandma. All fun and no stress.”
“That's what it is to love someone: to give whatever you can while taking what you must.”
“That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.”
“that's what it was like waking up in the crypts. no-longer-dead. but without her. like burning alive.”
“That's what it's all about - making art is making something live forever. Human beings especially - we can't hold on to them in any way. Painting and art is a way of holding onto things and making things go on through time.”
“That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones.”
Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“That's what it's like to be a comedian. You basically stand and stare at the world and hope it craps out cause that's a good year for you. So that's not a pleasant feeling.”
“That's what it's like when people have crawled very high up in a tree, then they sometimes need help to get down with ladders and ropes and other instruments.”
“That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex. It was about connection. It was about looking at another human being and seeing your own loneliness and neediness reflected back. It was recognising that together you had the power to temporarily banish that sense of isolation. It was about experiencing what it was to be human at the basest, most instinctive level. How could that be described as just anything?”
Source: Taming the Beast
“That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't.”
“That's what keeps me going. Everywhere I go there are young people with shining eyes wanting to tell me, "Dr. Jane, we're going to make the world a better place."”
“That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.”
Source: My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century