T Quotes
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“That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.”
“That's what's nice about playing festivals, too. You're on this huge, enormous stage and you've got 200,000 watts of power blowing your guitars all over the place. It sounds good.”
“That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it is a shameful thing to do.”
“That's what's so amazing about climbing - it's not just a sport. It's a lifestyle, it's a way of being creative, of connecting with yourself and with nature.”
“That's what's so cool about 'Once:' There is a layer of darker stuff, but it's balanced by this incredible light.”
“That's what's so great about the Internet. It allows pompous blow-hards to connect with other pompous blow-hards in a vast circle-jerk of pomposity.”
“That's what's so satisfying about acting. You can come as prepared as you like, but there's no accounting for what's going to come at you from the other actor. That's part of the joy and the play of it. If you don't have that it's a different kind of performance.”
“That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom, and then you're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you can't remember what happens next.”
Source: The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)
“That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.”
“That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.”
“That's what's wrong with the people in this world; they believe they can do well by just getting by when they need to aim for the highest.”
“That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.”
Source: Slam!
“That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.”
Source: Gone With The Wind: American Literature
“That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist.”
“That's when America soars, when we look out for one another and we take care of each other, when we root for one another's success, when we strive to do better and to be better than the generation that came before us and try to build something better for generations to come, that's why we do what we do. That's the whole point of public service.”
“That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to accept that.”
“That's when I began drinking coffee. I was hung up on every little thing. I loved Paris, and felt straightaway at home. Not to be grandiose, but it seemed like all the city had been waiting for me.”
Source: Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down
“That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.”
Source: Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
“That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.”
“That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn't enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn't enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them you cared. And he just didn't. Not enough.”
Source: It's Not Summer Without You
“That's when I hear the scream. So full of fear and pain it ices my blood. And so familiar. I drop the spile, forget where I am or what lies ahead, only know I must reach her, protect her. I run wildly in the direction of the voice, heedless of danger, ripping through vines and branches, through anything that keeps me from reaching her. From reaching my little sister.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail.”
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.”
“That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.”
“That's when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they're over they still go on, even after you're dead and buried, those moments are lasting still, backward and forward, on into infinity. They are everything and everywhere all at once. They are the meaning.”
Source: Before I Fall
“That's when I use the word frustrating, when your body breaks down or your body doesn't do the things I'm asking it to do at my age, because I'm trying to keep up with the Joneses.”
“That's when it happens. Maybe it was my argument. Maybe it was my scary zeal. Whatever the reason, as soon as Megan whistles, the crowd is on its feet. They're blowing bubbles. They're raising their lighters high. They're cheering through their fangs... For Dawn Summers, for themselves and each other, for every sibling who got tossed into a situation beyond her control. For me. And for my sister, who whistles again... Once more with feeling.”
“That's when it really came together for me that I was in a Bond film, to have my own spy car!”
“That's when it struck me: how gorgeous we all were, even with cellulite (saw a lot of that) and stretch marks, scars and tattoos. Let me just say this, not single body was perfect, not even the fittest of women there.”
“That's when the dream is so far off it seems like it will never happen. It can be most anything you want it to be.”
“That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.”
“That's when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you're awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it could be. Make the most of those moments.”
Source: The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
“That's when the vast consensus of the world's climatologists, brought together by the UN and The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, really announced that this was going on, and since then the accumulation of data and wickedly hot years has served to only congeal that consensus much more firmly.”
“That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.”
“That's when you know a horror film delivers - when you're walking out of the theater going 'Oh my God!' You can't get the images out of your mind.”
“That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you - without you asking.”
Source: Very Valentine
“That's when you know you know somebody. When you know every piece of clothing they have in their wardrobe. That's friendship.”
“That's when you know you really fit with someone - when you can just sit there and not do anything. Kind of ignoring each other.”
“That's when you know you're a true married couple: when you have to apologize for what you did in her dream.”
Source: Everything and a Kite
“That's when you realize that most of it-life, the relentless mechanism of existing-isn't about you. It doesn't include you at all. It will thrust onward even after you've jumped the edge. Even after you're dead.”
Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem
“That's when you really lose people, you know.When the pain passes.”
“That's when you're laughing the hardest because you're not really in character. You're just trying to learn the moves, but once they call, "Action!", you're in it and it's like you transport yourself to a different place.”
“That's when you've got to grit your teeth and hang in there and try and find a way to win when you're not playing your best tennis - that's what I can be proud of”
“That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.”
“That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.”
Source: A Canticle For Leibowitz
“That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any more. I haven't been like that for a long time.”
“That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.”
“That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.”
“That's where faith comes in. I've struggled more with being away from her. She keeps me strong. Being away from her means I have to stay in the Word and to stay strong throughout the season.”
“That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like. I've always felt that's what I would like to do.”