T Quotes
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“There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer work.”
Source: The Threepenny Opera
“There are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you'd been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you're suspended knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself.”
Source: The Dutch House
“There are a few versions of the Alexander movie on video, only two that matter. One is from 2007, and then the one from 2014. It's called "the Ultimate Cut." That is the best version in my opinion. I was unsatisfied with the original theatrical release. It was rushed. It was my fault. I accepted it. I always felt it should have been done the way Tarantino did Kill Bill. I thought, we should release this in two parts with an intermission. But at that time, in 2004, it was impossible.”
“There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare.”
“There are a few YouTube clips of me singing at The King's Head in Santa Monica, so you can see how bad I am.”
“There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.”
“There are a good number of people creating black metal and black metal inspired music in the northwest. Much of this music is radically noncommercial and exists only on a very local, private level.”
“There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.”
“There are a great many aspects to feline life, but the three most important - the Holy Trinity, if you will - are eating, sleeping and washing.”
Source: A Cat Called Dog
“There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.”
Source: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
“There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.”
“There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.”
“There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.”
“There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.”
“There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.”
“There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.”
“There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.”
Source: Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books
“There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.”
“There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.”
“There are a great many sins in the world, none of them original.”
Source: Bridge of Sighs
“There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.”
“There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.”
“There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.”
Source: The Stand
“There are a great number of ego defenses, and the combinations and circumstances in which we use them reflect on our personality. Indeed, one could go so far as to argue that the self is nothing but the sum of its ego defenses, which are constantly shaping, upholding, protecting, and repairing it.
The self is like a cracked mask that is in constant need of being pieced together. But behind the mask there is nobody at home.”
Source: Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception
“There are a great number of Mexicans who live every day worried about the lack of employment and opportunities. Those conditions also damage the image of Mexico abroad, and that is the Mexico that must be transformed.”
“There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers.”
“There are a great number of peoples who need more than just words of sympathy from the international community. They need a real and sustained commitment to help end their cycles of violence, and launch them on a safe passage to prosperity.”
“There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country.”
“There are a great number of what appear to be teenage runaways, but in Portland it seems that even the elderly dress as if they are teenage runaways, in hoodies and kerchiefs and ragged jeans, stinking of patchouli and dirty feet, and one tattooed old man even rolls by on a skateboard.”
Source: Stay Awake
“There are a group of people who are managing the world to their advantage and who just look to the rest of us as people who will buy their products and fund their salaries.”
“There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along, but that’s not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies.”
“There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters are of that.”
“There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.”
“There are a handful of barbecue seafood shacks on the beach at Hat Nai Yang, which is a fabulous place to have dinner. It's very much run for locals and they serve the catch of the day, which might be lobster, white snapper or squid. It's ridiculously reasonable, too.”
“There are a handful of companies who understand all successful business operations come down to three basic principles; People---Product---Profit. Without top people, you cannot do much with the other two.”
“There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.”
“There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when a guy's heart stops, and you're the one who has to fix it!”
“There are a helluva lot more of us who care about our environment in the world than we realize. We're the majority, and we can do something about that”
“There are a host of ethnic minorities in China but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small in total number. History has taught the Han that other groups will and should ultimately be absorbed and assimilated as Han. There is a belief that the Han enjoy a superior and far more advanced culture.”
“There are a host of surprises among longer-term meditators, like a boost in the immune system from a day of practice, which is not seen in beginners, and a rapid recovery from stress or pain. At the "Olympic level" we find there is no anticipatory anxiety when the stress of pain is certain to come, and no lingering aftereffects - unlike the stress reactions in ordinary folk.”
“There are a huge amount of people who sell a TV pilot, every year, but most of them never get produced. It's very easy to make a living and never get anything produced.”
“There are a huge number of people that should be in jail for willfully damaging damaging public health, but instead they are employed on high salaries in fraudulent corporate government regulator departments.”
“There are a hundred layers of dust and you are saying, 'This layer is mind, this layer is soul. I want to remove this and save this.' No. All of it is mind. All of it has to go. You have to go. What will remain is the divine you.”
“There are a hundred or perhaps a thousand other emotions, or gradations, created by the mixing, blending, and overlapping of the basic ones.”
“There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?”
Source: New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
“There are a hundred places where I fear To go, --so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, 'There is no memory of him here!' And so stand stricken, so remembering him!”
Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
“There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it's always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
You will hear that she has left the country, that there was a gift she wanted you to have, but it is lost before it reaches you. Late one night the telephone will sign, and a voice that might be hers will say something that you cannot interpret before the connection crackles and is broken.
Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again.
Whenever it rains you will think of her.”
“There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it's always raining a slow endless drizzle.”
Source: Fragile Things
“There are a hundred trillion cells in the human body, and every single one of the cells of my body loves you. We shed cells, and we grow new ones, and my new cells love you more than the old ones, which is why I love you more every day than I did the day before. It’s science. And when I die and they burn my body and I become ashes that mix with the air, and part of the ground and the trees and the stars, everyone who breathes that air or sees the flowers that grow out of the ground or looks up at the stars will remember you and love you, because I love you that much.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“There are a hundred ways in which a boy can injure—if not indeed kill—himself. The more adventurous he is and the greater his initiative, the more ways he will find. If you protect him from each of the first hundred, he is sure to find the hundred and first. Though most men can look back on their boyhood and tremble at the narrowness of some of their escapes, most boys do in fact survive more or less intact, and the wise father is the trusting father.”
Source: The Enchanted Places