T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.”
“The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site.”
“The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.”
“The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.”
“The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.”
Source: The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely
“The wet, fleshy lips of his slightly open mouth were the origins of another unexpected reaction of mine to which I also gave in. I suddenly felt the emotional desire of kissing that mouth. And that was something that some time ago I would have sworn to be immune from. Instead quite the contrary, I have always felt nauseated whenever I'd fall in with one of those johns—so numerous in this trade—who tried to kiss me on the mouth at one time or another of our time together enjoying our act of raw sexuality and even the thought had always made me feel utterly revolted. And yet that sense of disgust that was invariably joined to the mere idea of kissing another male was not present now in the thoughts I kept turning in my mind about kissing him, and tasting the flavor of his sensuous lips. I also felt like nibbling the curve of his bony jaw and going down over his thick, muscular neck, to leave a trace of me in every pore of his terse skin, in a trail of lust and pleasure.”
Source: Memoirs of Jeff X
“The wet floor was difficult to navigate and the musty smell of rot, tinged with ammonia, was sharp in my nose. It was evident that the building’s current occupants were engaged in questionable activities, so while I wanted to explore and capture the dark beauty of this forgotten place, I did not care to stumble upon anyone living or deceased.”
Source: Abandoned Sulphur, Louisiana
“The wet garden steamed gently after the rain, fairy clouds rising above the greenery into the slanting sunshine.”
Source: The Witch's Kind
“The wet sand on the shore
Feels good to walk on.
The waves lick my feet;
Beg me to return
But I have to wade in--
To have a row with The Sea
.......A lot to explore”
Source: Voyager: A Journey to Self and Love
“The wet skeletons of two young hedgehogs still lay on the floor of Hell.”
Source: When the Time Comes
“The wet slapping noise comes again, followed by a thick gurgling gasp. Vera squeezes her eyes shut so tight that they ache and she grips her quit hard, and she decides that the time has come to be as brave as she can, because if she isn't brave it will get her.”
Source: Just Like Home
“The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets misunderstood, corroded and chronic, and it happens quickly and in unpredictable ways. That's one reason why the web is so fascinating-it's a collision between the analytic world of code and wet world of people.”
“The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.”
“The whale without Ahab is just a whale. A whale with no problems. A stress-free whale." - Julian Blackthorn”
Source: Lady Midnight
“The whales are sounding. They show their flukes, monuments against a perfect sky. They’re diving now.”
Source: Shoggoths in Bloom and Other Stories
“The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.”
“The Wham! thing was, as I said, very confusing, and much of our image was totally fake.”
“The what is so much more important than how.”
“The what-if's and the should-have's will eat your brain.”
“The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.”
Source: The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch
“The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.”
“The wheat had survived the hail and lightning of the summer storms, but luck could not deliver it from the cold. By the time the refugees took shelter in the old house, the wheat was dead, killed by the hard fist of a deep frost.”
Source: The Infinite Sea
“The wheel [migration] has been spinning and spinning and spinning. Wouldn't it be nice to imagine a world where that circle stops spinning in that crazy way? Because that's a huge wheel that's crushing people's lives, real people's lives, families.”
“The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“The wheel begins its only if turning. / It had never stopped. / This is life's bargain that motion / Is hope.”
Source: Elegy: poems
“The wheel doesn't exist yet, but people put a spoke in your wheel.”
“The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.”
“The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round.”
“The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the central nervous system.”
Source: The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century
“The wheel is come full circle: I am here.”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“The wheel is come full circle.”
“The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.”
“the wheel of fate crushes us all”
“The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.”
Source: The Lady of the Rivers
“The wheel of fortune that had once raised her so high had taken her into the utter depths.”
Source: Harlequin
“The wheel of fortune turned sharply in America. Education and learning counted for nothing here. Tradesmen and labourers went into the savage pushcart life of Hester Street, fought their way up, became contractors, shop owners, great manufacturers. Intellectuals and professionals preferred the factories, certain they would get out again. Most of these men were lost forever in the sweatshops.”
Source: Bright star of exile: Jacob Adler and the Yiddish theatre
“The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.”
“The wheel of government will continue to work, even as these people come in and we wait for them, but the issue is, there's always one thing, that a new administration confronts.For the Bush administration, it was terrorism. For this administration, it's going to be cyber-security, not Russian hacking. That's a symptom of the bigger problem, but the bigger issue of cyber, how they deal with that. So, we may see something else we're not anticipating. That's going to be their challenge.”
“The wheel of life has many spokes yet so few people ever leave the hub.”
“The wheel of progress revolves relentlessly and all the nations of the world take their turn at the field-glass of human destiny. Africa will not retreat! Africa will not compromise! Africa will not relent! Africa will not equivocate! And she will be heard! Remember Africa!”
“The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation.”
“The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.”
Source: Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'
“The wheel of time is upturning tirelessly to give you something you didn't expect.”
“The Wheel of Time spins: there is beginning and there is end. But why does the Wheel of Time spin? Is it some divine force that propels it? Or is that force humanity, people in search of change and a better way of life?
– Asvattama Bharadvaja”
Source: Kurukshetra
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.”
Source: The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.”
Source: From The Two Rivers: The Eye of the World
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.”
Source: The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'
“The wheel of Time wrote the first half of the poetry of mass destruction on the black board of the ashes of a funeral ground by dint of a pair of pens of nuclear bombs.”
“The wheel that squeaks gets the oil.”
“The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.”