T Quotes
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“The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.”
Source: The Peacock and the Buffalo: The Poetry of Nietzsche
“The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.”
“The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive”
“The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.”
Source: Their Wedding Journey
“The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa”
“The wren goes to't”
“The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.”
Source: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes
“The wrestling, even though I would only wrestle for 15 or 20 or 30 minutes at a time, and it would look like that was the only time I was in it, was really a 24-hour job. Keeping yourself alive, reinventing yourself, staying physically in shape, the traveling, all the other commitments with being a wrestler, it was a crossover situation where it became sports entertainment and you actually became a media star, so it was very demanding.”
“The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.”
Source: The Lay of the Last Minstrel
“The wretch condemn'd with life to part,
Still, still on hope relies;
And every pang that rends the heart
Bids expectation rise.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces
“The wretch that fears to drown, will break through flames;
Or, in his dread of flames, will plunge in waves.
When eagles are in view, the screaming doves
Will cower beneath the feet of man for safety.”
“The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.”
“The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.”
“The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.”
“The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.”
“The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art.”
Source: The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature
“The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.”
“The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.”
“The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.”
Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc
“The wretched have no friends.”
Source: British Theatre: Isabella, or, The fatal marriage
“The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.”
“The Wretched of the Earth is an explosion.”
“The wretched reflect either too much or too little.”
“The Wretched Rulers of Freiland by Stewart Stafford
A two-faced mirror, vainly warm,
A beauteous sheen to a swinish form,
Bloated with gold and wanton pride,
As cormorants in cuckoo nests, they hide.
They gorge on fabrication, binge on strife,
Parasites living off another life,
Suckers draining every dream,
Like leeches in a poisoned stream.
Shells crack, the rotten egg cabal;
The bonfire of inanities banal,
Power loosened in a fading grip,
Fleeing the wake of freedom's ship.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
“The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets-a vicious circle.”
Source: Peter Ibbetson
“The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.”
“The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made far worse when it comes as something new, and is exaggerated by the working of the imagination.”
Source: Jean Santeuil
“The wriggling child suspended in the roof beams looked like modern art to the multi-limbed admiring monstrosity.”
Source: Dead Ends
“The Wright brothers committed themselves to do what no one else had ever done before. They took time to do their homework. They were humble and smart enough to appreciate and learn about the work of others who went before. And they tackled the problem line upon line, precept upon precept.”
“The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.”
“The Wright brothers didn't contemplate the staying on the ground of things. Alexander Graham Bell didn't contemplate the noncommunication of things. Thomas Edison didn't contemplate the darkness of things. In order to float an idea into your reality, you must be willing to do a somersault into the unconceivable and land on your feet, contemplating what you want instead of what you don't have.”
Source: The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way: Easyread Large Edition
“The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.”
“The Wright brothers' first flight was not reported in a single newspaper because every rookie reporter knew what could and couldn't be done.”
“The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.”
“The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of a dog, the mess of the world, and I see - this, all this, is what the French call d'un beau affreux, what the Germans call hubsch-hasslich - the ugly-beautiful. That which is perceived as ugly transfigures into beautiful. What the postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin expressed as 'Le laid peut etre beau' - The ugly can be beautiful. The dark can give birth to life; suffering can deliver grace.”
“The wrinkled pages of the Bible crackled as Mom leafed back to the beginning of Matthew. I had always felt I was conceived from the powers of the universe. Maybe I was chosen to fulfill a divine mission.”
Source: Adopted Like Me- Chosen to Search for a Birthmother
“The wrinkles in my brow,
The furrows in my face,
Say, limping age will lodge him now
Where youth must give him place.”
“The wrinkles on his face indicated where his smiles had rested all these years. I wondered how he could live so cheerfully.”
Source: Once Again Beautiful And Pure: A Tale of Strength and Redemption
“The wrinklier the raisin, the sweeter the fruit.”
“The wrinkly texture of the yuba is interesting. Does it add much to the flavor though?"
I took my first bite. "Hm. Yes, I think so. It's very thin and crackled, almost like chicken skin. And, look, it's bonded to the fish somehow. But what I really like is this gingerbread puree and cranberry bean soil. It's so unique. The gingerbread spices sort of unlock the monkfish's meatiness and muscle. Then the bean soil scratches your tongue and sort of forces the flavors into deeper levels of taste. And I love how you can't place it. It's not ethnic, it's not market-driven, it's its own thing.”
Source: Food Whore
“The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him, has still to be conceived.”
Source: Journey from the North, Volume 1: Autobiography of Storm Jameson
“The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.”
“The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.”
“The writer as boxer says he develops by, "learning from everyone who'll spar with me.”
Source: Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts
“The writer asks himself, 'Can I think of a plot that will parallel this? Can I take this work of literature as an example of something I might produce?' Let us, then, consider literature as a productive science.”
“The writer begins the story, but the reader gives it meaning.
Words are only half alive until someone feels them.”
“The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?”
“The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.”
Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.”
“The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.”