T Quotes
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“That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.”
“That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us are idealists. You start out that way, anyway.”
“That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.”
“That's why you have to keep your mind open - so that you can be given the privilege to have five weeks in Japan and take all of that in. I mean, that's privilege to be able to do that. And you have to give that privilege back - it doesn't belong to you. It belongs to the madding crowd.”
“That's why you have to like a guy like Charles Manson. Say what you will about Manson - he's one of the only people with the decency to look like a dangerous maniac the first time you meet him.”
“That's why you have to save the dying man. Because you want him around to keep saving you.”
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“That's why you hear about people coming up with inventions almost at the same time, because someone else is thinking about it.”
“That's why you like me!' I exclaim. 'Because you're not nice either! It makes so much more sense now.' 'Come on,' he says. 'We're going to see Johanna.' 'I like you, too.' 'That's encouraging,' he replies flatly. 'Come on. Oh for God's sake. I'll just carry you.”
“That's why you need the war on drugs to put all these pot smokers in prison so that the prisons remain full and the corporations remain profitable. It's a slippery slope.”
“That's why your middle finger close to your ring, coz it's either love or hate there ain't no in-between”
“That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible.”
“That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.”
“That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it!”
Source: Unwind
“That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.”
“That's worst than gonerreha, man!”
“That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.”
Source: Outline: A Novel
“That's you, right?' he asks me. 'Yeah.' 'Cute. Not that I, uh, think little kids are cute. Just that you were cute. I mean, you can see how you turned out to be so...oh.”
“That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.”
“That's your doing. Now in order to affect that doing I am going to recommend that you learn another doing... It may hook you to another doing and then you may realize that both doings are lies, unreal, and that to hinge yourself to either one is a waste of time, because the only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. To arrive at that being is the note-doing of the self”
Source: Journey to Ixtlan
“That's your first mistake. Do not trust me.”
“That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy who's like, 'I think you're terrific'... It's just simple, showing up for each other.”
“That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.”
“That's your life. Get used to it. Don't get mad at me- you married him.”
“That's your opportunity - to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.”
Source: Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?
“That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.”
“That's your response to everything: drink?" "No, that's my response to nothing.”
“That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.”
“That's your solution? Have a cookie?' Astrid asked. 'No, my solution is to run down to the beach and hide out until this is all over,' Sam said. 'But a cookie never hurts.”
Source: Gone
“That's your truck parked up by the factory isn't it?" Magnus pointed. "It's awfully butch for a bookseller.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.”
“That's a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague and you let the reader fill in the blanks with their imagination.”
“That, by the way, is perhaps the most ludicrous comment I've ever heard, that climate change is a bigger threat to our country than radical Islamic terrorism.”
“That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in the Breeze, Glows in the Stars, and blossoms in the Trees... Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part... Submit - in this, or any other Sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood... All partial Evil, universal Good.”
“That, dillop brain, is what getting close to the Darke does. It makes you think only of yourself. It takes you away from people you care about. And now you don't have anyone to talk to and it serves you right.”
Source: Darke: Septimus Heap
“That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles are less than two right angles.”
Source: Euclid's Elements: all thirteen books complete in one volume : the Thomas L. Heath translation
“That, if the Gentiles, (whom no Law inspir'd,)
By Nature did what was by Law requir'd;
They, who the written Rule and never known,
Were to themselves both Rule and Law alone:
To Natures plain Indictment they shall plead;
And, by their Conscience, be condemn'd or freed.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume II: Poems, 1681-1684
“That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to persuade that person to act differently, the loss of the chance to connect.”
Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression
“That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.”
“That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens, his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected. He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns.”
“That, lad," he said proudly, "was some of the worst poetry I have heard for a long time. It was offensive to the ear and a torrrture to the soul....We'll make a gonnagle out of ye yet!”
“That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em,
We may live with, but cannot live without 'em.”
“That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.”
Source: The Forgotten Garden: A Novel
“That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and formulas.”
“That, of course, was the thing about the fifties with all their patina of familial bliss: A lot of the memories were not happy, not mine, not my friends'. That's probably why the myth so endures, because of the dissonance in our lives between what actually went on at home and what went on up there on those TV screens where we were allegedly seeing ourselves reflected back.”
Source: Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey
“That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!”
“That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain,
And follows but for form,
Will pack, when it begins to rain,
And leave thee in a storm.”
Source: King Lear
“That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it.”
Source: The Peach Keeper: A Novel
“That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they never could tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they never could endure the notion of their children laying their heads upon their pillows; in short, that there never more could be, for them or theirs, any laying of heads upon pillows at all, unless the prisoner's head was taken off.”
“That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.”