T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about it, the success over it or the critical rejection—none of that really matters. In the end, the thing will survive or not on its own merits. Not that immortality via art is any big deal. Truffaut died, and we all felt awful about it, and there were the appropriate eulogies, and his wonderful films live on. But it’s not much help to Truffaut.”
“That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”
Source: the bell jar
“That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we don’t want to talk about ourselves.”
Source: The End of Your Life Book Club
“That’s one of the things that I like about him - because he’s been consistent since he changed his mind.”
“That’s one way of looking at it. I prefer to look at it another way—which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back.”
“That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“That’s really sweet.” He grinned and reached for a plate. “Then I believe my mission is accomplished.” Laughing softly so I didn’t wake up Cage, I walked over and took the plate he was offering to me.”
Source: Sea Breeze Volume 1: Breathe; Because of Low; While It Lasts
“That’s right, I’m crazy. But, I don’t ever want to go back to being of sound mind again. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to. Because as crazy as I may get, I only have eyes for Ju Yoo Rin.”
“That’s right, Sadie. For our first real date, I picked up Zia in a boat pulled by a deranged griffin. So what? Like your dates aren’t weird?”
Source: The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)
“That’s right, you nasty little vixen, bite me harder." Ian urged.”
“That’s right. Get thee behind me, bitches. I don’t got no time for you. Ha! (Tabitha)”
Source: Chronicles of Nick
“That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.”
Source: Haunted
“That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.”
Source: Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death
“That’s the beauty of being a comedian: it’s the one job you’re allowed to do that. We’re lucky. We’re really lucky.”
“That’s the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for everyone.”
Source: The 'Burg Box Set
“That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining.”
Source: Attempting Normal
“That’s the first step to learning: admitting what you don’t know.”
Source: The Orchard of Hope
“That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.”
Source: Mistborn Trilogy
“That’s the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that there’s somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally say, Ah, I’ve arrived. (Of course there is no such place. There’s only a succession of waitings until you go home.)”
Source: Sparrow Nights
“That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.”
“That’s the interesting thing about the philosophy — to accomplish the grand, you have to focus on the small. To exist in the eternal perspective, you have to live in the moment.”
“That’s the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.”
“That’s the last time I let Wesley Snipes help me out with my taxes!”
“That’s the nice thing about dreams, the way you wake up before you fall.”
“That’s the one nice thing about being a dork about men: you can sometimes play it off as restrained and classy.”
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)
“That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.”
“That’s the power you possess as an artist. To find and express your own unique message.”
Source: The Orphan Sky
“That’s the problem with all of this. No matter how hard I try, I can’t make it perfect. I can’t keep it in a bottle, can’t ignore reality. Chemicals are involved, the kind scientists try to synthesize and put into pill form, and they’re making tremendous advances every day. They’re winning the war against love. It’s probably inevitable now. There are only two ways to see the world: either no one and nothing is connected to anything, or we are all a random series of carbon molecules connected to each other. Tell me if there’s room for love in either of those scenarios.”
“That’s the problem with fiction — or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks into you, until you find yourself concerned for the fates of characters who aren’t even fully convincing.”
“That’s the problem with heartbreak, to you it’s like an atomic bomb but to the world it’s just a cliche because in the end we all have the same experience.”
“That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.”
Source: Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“That’s the really annoying thing about love. I probably would be happier if I didn’t know it, but once you do know it, once you feel those things for someone, you can’t make yourself really wish it away. It’s like wishing away . . . your soul.
- Jenny”
“That’s the reason, as your congressman, I hold the holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I’ll continue to do that.”
“That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.”
Source: Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
“That’s the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark, but play boldly and no one will question you. If one believes there is truth in art – and I do – then it’s troubling how similar the skill of performing is to lying. Maybe lying is itself a kind of art. I think about that more than I should.”
Source: Seraphina
“That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“That’s the thing about life, he knew. There was always a but.”
Source: At First Sight
“That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living. In a few minutes we’ll be worrying about names for the children.”
Source: Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel
“That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.”
“That’s the thing about success and happiness. Every time I fall in love I become absolutely, pathologically obsessed. The moment that you have what you want, and you’re not totally ready for it, you become obsessed with the idea that you don’t deserve it.”
“That’s the thing about things. They tend to happen.”
Source: Second Grave on the Left
“That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile and a tear and a wave. Everyone has learned, found love, seen the error of their ways, discovered the joys of monogamy, or fatherhood, or filial duty, or life itself. In my day, people got shot at the end of films, after learning only that life is hollow, dismal, brutish, and short.”
“That’s the thing you have to understand about the whole process of art (or the work that we do) – you’re only half of the equation. It’s an interaction between you and the person who’s going to experience the work. The person who’s going to experience the work is bringing just as much to it and is just as important as you are.”
“That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.”
“That’s the tricky thing about love. It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and smells like a duck. But after you sleep with it a month or so, or get dumped at the altar by it, it starts smelling more like a skunk.”
“That’s the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.”
“That’s the way it is with our Father in Heaven. When you became a son or a daughter, when you were adopted into His family, He opened up for you through His Son’s death on the cross a way of fellowship and relationship that makes it possible for you to bypass the temple and its animal sacrifices. You don’t have to talk to God through a priest. You can go right into the presence of God Almighty and He will hear you.”
“That’s the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.”
“That’s the worst way to miss somebody. When they’re right beside you and you miss them anyway.”
“That’s us,” he said. “Those five nuts right there.” Which one is me?” I asked. The little deformed one,” Zoe suggested. Oh, shut up.”
Source: The Titan's curse