T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The worst thing about logic - it is not democratic. Logic wears an autocratic mask. No compromises are made there for things are binary. Only intellectual standards democratise it to make it human. That is why you joined rationality with character. Rationality is autocratic - what is wrong does not live for long. Wrong facts, theories, and conclusions die - useless to apply in spite of their unlimited supply.”
Source: Questology
“The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.”
“The worst thing about losing this job: I’m no longer covered by NBC. I have to sign up for ObamaCare.”
“The worst thing about me is my toes. I've thick joints from wearing pointe ballet shoes - I went to a dance school from the age of 11 and danced every day.”
“The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.”
“The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary”
“The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.”
Source: Raising Kane and Other Essays
“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
“The worst thing about not being president anymore is I was disoriented for three weeks because nobody every played a song when I walked in.”
“The worst thing about our cultures, education systems, and religions is that they make us take life seriously.”
“The worst thing about our problems is that nobody has nothing to do with them”
“The worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.”
“The worst thing about pills was that they worked. Without them, you might just adapt; medical optimism suspended you in a maintenance reality. He'd never known how sick he was until he'd gotten health insurance. The pill that really wanted inventing was the bitter one that cured you of optimism and made time go faster.”
Source: Private Citizens
“The worst thing about planning your own funeral is knowing that you won't be there to enjoy it.”
Source: Terra Dark
“The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.”
“the worst thing about prison was the dementors”
“The worst thing about religion was religious people.”
Source: The Marriage Plot: A Novel
“The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.”
“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”
“The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation.”
Source: The Tale of Hill Top Farm
“The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you're doing. You never see anybody on TV just sliding off the front of the sofa, with potato chip crumbs all over their shirt.”
“The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.”
“The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.”
Source: The Changed Man: Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card
“The worst thing about the internet, as far as Greg's bosses were concerned, was that it was now impossible to distinguish a roomful of people working diligently from a roomful of people taking the What-Kind-of-Dog-Am-I? online personality quiz”
“The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.”
“The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.”
“The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing.”
Source: David Lynch: Interviews
“The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time in my life, I realize I don't know where I'm going. My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love. And on the eve of my thirteth, I must face that I am 0 for 2.”
Source: Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue
“The worst thing about touring is the travel.”
“The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.”
“The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.”
“The worst thing about winters: Lost phone in fat blankets.”
“The worst thing about your life falling apart is that the world takes no notice.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.”
Source: Tragedy of the Distrest Mother Transl. from the Andromaque of Racine, with the Life of the Author by Johnson and a Critique by Richard Cumberland
“The worst thing baldness causes is loneliness.”
“The worst thing ever that you have to explain your joke because I was very disappointed trying to explain why the joke is funny for the interrogator.”
“The worst thing for a singer/songwriter is to run out of songs.”
“The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.”
Source: Women
“The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.”
“The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.”
“The worst thing for people to say about your movies is, "Yeah, it was pretty good, but it was too damn long.".”
“The worst thing for worker's is their bosses business going out of business.”
“The worst thing happened and you are still alive... at least for now, isn't that enough?”
Source: Limitations
“the worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.”
“The worst thing I can do is nothing.”
“The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.”
“The worst thing I can tell you is to be a man.
Be a man means man up, act tough, take it like a man, have no emotions, make sure to lead, dominant, never submit, be strong, suck it up and don't you dare cry because it's a sign of weakness.
When in truth, it takes courage to cry; faking a smile is easy.
I tell my man to cry, and I will cry with him; laugh, and I will laugh with him; yell, and I will yell on top of the roof with him, we will rebuild even if we lose everything.
He knows not to "be a man" around me other than himself.”
“The worst thing I could be accused of is that I'm a one-way dude, only out for myself. But the worst thing a woman can do is not to say anything. Especially when you're starting a relationship.”
“The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.”