T Quotes
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“That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.”
“That's what the conservative movement has become, is basically an annex of the [Donald] Trump campaign.”
“That's what the court needs-a happy king, a king who can't stop dreaming of being lost in someone who wants to be just as lost. Tell me you'll let me get lost in you.”
“That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.”
“That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.”
“That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be.”
Source: The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono
“That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?”
“That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.”
“That's what the Ivy League is. And many of the people there are legacy. Their families went there; their families are in government. The kids go there.”
“That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.”
Source: Dreams From My Father
“That's what the left is always doing. They have an ideal, and they want people to conform to it. When people don't conform to it, they end up being beaten into the mold. And beaten sometimes hard enough so that if they don't fit, then they kill them. That's what happened in the Soviet Union and China.”
“That's what the liveliest parts of the world Church today - ranging from the booming Church in Africa to FOCUS missionaries on American campuses - are living: a Catholicism that has discovered that it doesn't have a mission, it is a mission.”
“That's what the majority of people in the world do, they walk among the ruins of their life. Things that didn't work out, relationships that went sour, jobs that disappeared. All they can think about is their ruins, and when you focus on that you can't build a new you.”
“That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.”
Source: Remake
“That's what the Nazis did, isn't it? Treated those "others" they thought subhuman by making them lab subjects and so on. Even the Nazis didn't eat the objects of their derision.”
“That's what the news is: You turn on the news every night, whatever you watch, and you're expecting to see things that you didn't know happened. And that's not what it is.”
“That's what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare, instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.”
“That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.”
“That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust”
“That's what the shaman said. He didn't know what he was up against. He didn't expect the strength and weight and evil intensity of this spirit, this "entity," as he called it. The same way the priest in an exorcism has to take on the spirit.”
“That's what the tactics are, Nazi tactics. Nazi tactics are progressive tactics first.”
“That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.”
“That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.”
“That's what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then, go back to the wine.”
“That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.”
“That's what they do to whatever I was - 19 or something. You're the baby hooker. You can ask any woman my age and we've all played baby hookers.”
“That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway.”
“That's what they want: two women. Fellas, I think that's a bit lofty. Because, come on, think about it - if you can't satisfy that one woman, why do you want to piss off another one? Why have two angry women in the bed with you at the same time? And think about it - you know how much you hate to talk after sex, imagine having two women just nagging you to death.”
“That's what this country needs -- more books!”
Source: Parnassus On Wheels
“That's what this democracy was for us, a huge supermarket of mass man where we could take a piece here and a piece there to make our personalities for ourselves instead of putting up with what was given at the beginning.”
Source: What's this cat's story?: the best of Seymour Krim
“That's what this thing called Christian life is all about, isn't it. Going . . . yet not knowing. As followers of our Lord we believe He leads us in a certain direction . . . or in pursuit of a precise goal.”
Source: Second Wind: Fresh Hope for the Road Ahead
“That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.”
Source: War Horse
“That's what Tiggers do best!”
Source: Winnie the Pooh
“That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable - and all the time we're being carved, and shaped, and whittled away.”
“That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.”
“That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This hideous fate was made possible by an inexperienced president with a fundamentalist psyche and a paranoid and power-hungry vice-president who decided to embrace "the dark side" almost as soon as the second tower fell, and who is still trying to avenge Nixon. Until they are both gone from office, we are in grave danger the kind of danger that only torturers and fantasists and a security strategy based on coerced evidence can conjure up.”
“That's what true love is. It cannot be broken, it cannot be chipped away, it's eternal, everlasting, and it can weather any storm.”
“That's what true love should be like-the person should be part of your soul and you should know what they're feeling all the time.”
“That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.”
Source: Super Sad True Love Story
“That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.”
“That's what vampires do, Kitten. We always come for what's ours, no matter the circumstances." Bones said.”
“That's what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not just to make money. That's what I want Apple to be.”
“That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do.”
“That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.”
Source: I Am Legend
“That's what we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different.”
“That's what we all want, isn't it? Power without price.”
Source: The Darkest Powers Trilogy, 3-book bundle: The Summoning, The Awakening, The Reckoning
“That's what we Americans do when we find a place that's really special. We go there and act exactly like ourselves. And we are a bunch of fun-loving dopes.”
Source: The Partly Cloudy Patriot
“That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.”
“That's what we do on "MasterChef," on "Junior." No school teachers, no parents, let it go. You're going to go on a challenge. We're going to go to hell and back, and we're going to have some bumps.”