T Quotes
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“The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.”
Source: Alvar Aalto, Furniture and Glass: Exhibition the Museum of Modern Art, New York
“The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.”
“The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.”
“The Tucson speech [of Barack Obama] was brilliant, and I'm so angry at Republicans for jumping on him because you have to give credit. Part of being successful is to give credit to people who you may not disagree with when they do well.”
“The Tudors hated to be wrong, and therefore never were.”
Source: His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester
“The Tudors was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time.”
“The Tudors, I don't even know if I had a family back then.”
“The Tudors”) “I walked away thinking, well, if I don't get the job, it doesn't matter - I've kissed Jonathan Rhys Meyers!”
“The Tuesday scowls, the Wednesday growls, the Thursday curses, the Friday howls, the Saturday snores, the Sunday yawns, the Monday morns, the Monday morns. The whacks, the moans, the cracks, the groans, the welts, the squeaks, the belts, the shrieks, the pricks, the prayers, the kicks, the tears, the skelps, and the yelps.”
Source: Watt
“The Tuesday Seamstress said
our souls were sewn apart.
Delicate embroidered tomorrows
travelled without a start.”
Source: Under the Rose
“The tug of self-destruction and the desire to defy mortality by creating an everlasting mark upon this world are uneasy acquaintances. The strident edginess behind a writer’s searchlight voice is a product of the natural tension that engenders when an apathetic writer believes death could arrive tonight. Stunned by fear of a hard deadline, the writer is jolted from their state of laziness and mental neglect that trolling inertia dampens their aptitude to love life.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“The tuitions of unbridge boundaries thus recollect the pole pillars of a mighty strong Gate",”
“The tulip and the butterfly
Appear in gayer coats than I:
Let me be dressed fine as I will,
Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.”
“The tulip's petals shine in dew, All beautiful, but none alike.”
Source: The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume
“The tulips are too red...they hurt me.”
“The tulips are usually in flower in March, a carnival of orange, saffron, rust and purple-black. Once they have gone over, as we gardeners say, their petals brown and frail like antique satin, the bulbs will be lifted and replaced with fully grown foxgloves, whose faded notes of lilac, pink and speckled cream will stand tall till it is time for the dahlias to go in.”
Source: A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
“The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.”
“The tumor had interrupted his speech circuitry, so he could speak only in streams of numbers, but he still had prosody, he could still emote: smile, scowl, sigh. He recited another series of numbers, this time with urgency. There was something he wanted to tell us, but the digits could communicate nothing other than his fear & fury.”
Source: When Breath Becomes Air
“The tumult in the heart
keeps asking questions.
And then it stops and undertakes to answer
in the same tone of voice.
No one could tell the difference.
Uninnocent, these conversations start,
and then engage the senses,
only half-meaning to.
And then there is no choice,
and then there is no sense;
until a name
and all its connotation are the same.”
Source: The Complete Poems 1927-1979
“The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not. On the contrary, the small effect of these tumults seems to have given more confidence in the firmness of our governments. The interposition of the people themselves on the side of government has had a great effect on the opinion here in Europe.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded.”
Source: The Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts : with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.”
Source: The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot
“The tune of truth resounded in the hinterland of my mind, crooning to me that the tapestry of the past had long since been unraveled, that the threads of childhood bliss had been reassembled into quilts of angst and stress. Clinging to the past was like trying to hold on to water. But it was comforting to know that at one point in time, all of us had welcomed each day with cheers. All of us had loved life more than we craved death.”
Source: Scarlet Butterfly
“The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.”
Source: Nora Roberts' The Irish Born Trilogy
“The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German hymn in Swahili.”
Source: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
“The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover.”
Source: A Fine & Private Place
“The tunes he played on that instrument wouldn't be audible to the living. That didn't mean they wouldn't be real.”
Source: Every Heart a Doorway
“The tunnel under the wall of intellectual snobbery is the only way back to common sense reality, but most won't find it because it is beneath them.”
“The tunnels may be long, and twisted, and dark; but you are supposed to go through them.”
Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem
“The tunnels of our lives connect, coming to daylight at the oddest moments, and then plunge us into the dark again. We return to the lives of those who have gone before us, a perplexing möbius strip until we come home, eventually, to ourselves.”
Source: TransAtlantic: A Novel
“The turkey - my number one thing that people don't get is take that sucker out of the refrigerator about three hours before you plan on cooking it.”
“The Turkey deal can only be Plan B. Plan A needs to be a strong Europe that is prepared to defend its external borders on its own. If we do not do that, then we are living in a Europe that is dependent - on other countries, and possibly even on personalities like President Erdogan. And dependency is dangerous.”
“The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.”
“The turkey that President Obama will pardon this Thanksgiving is from California. The turkey said, "I don't need a pardon. I need a job.'”
“The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon.”
Source: America's Greatest Game Bird: Archibald Rutledge's Turkey Hunting Tales
“The turkeys that most Americans eat for Thanksgiving are turkeys - losers that are mass produced and bland.”
“The Turkish army will have done its duty when it defends the country from foreign aggression and frees the nation from fanaticism and intellectual slavery.’ He added: ‘The Turkish nation has fallen far behind the West. The main aim should be to lead it to modern civilization.”
Source: Atatürk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey
“The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps.”
“The Turkish Government began and ruthlessly carried out the infamous massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor. The clearance of the race from Asia Minor was about as complete as such an act, on a scale so great, could well be.”
Source: The World Crisis
“The Turkish judiciary has a very strong nationalist tradition, which is gradually changing, but only gradually. And since there was a nationalist outcry against Orhan Pamuk's remarks about Turkey's need to confront its past, I'm not surprised that one public prosecutor in an Istanbul borough should have decided to act. I don't expect the proceedings to lead to a conviction. But in any case one mustn't generalize and say that's the way Turkey behaves; it's the way one nationalist public prosecutor behaves.”
“The Turkish nation's character is noble
The Turkish nation is industrious
The Turkish nation is intelligent.”
“The Turkish road is not my model because I am critical of the way you are dealing with freedom of expression, of how you are dealing with the treatment of minorities, and your economic vision.”
“The Turks ... the Saudis, the Emiratis, etc. What were they doing?”
“The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“The Turks have an army that goes back to the Ottoman Empire. Our army is very new.
But there's a world of difference already between the early 1990's and now (early 2000). The food and pay, it's all better.”
“The Turks know that if they want to join the EU, then they must respect our rules. We are a union of beliefs, not a bunch of squawking chickens. But if we continue talks with Erdogan, that doesn't mean we have to bow down to him.”
“The Turks who live here in Germany don't get their information from German media. They read Turkish newspapers and watch Turkish television. A sort of parallel media world has developed in Germany, especially as a result of technological advances like satellite TV and the internet.”
“The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully utilized.”
“The turmoil that my dad went through, and then by extension, the kids went though, was profound and disastrous for the marriage, for the family.”
“The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and their families, and the Bible.”