T Quotes
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“There are some days when I can do my thing and be in the world and walk around, and it's fine. And then there are other days where it's totally not fine, and I want to crawl into a hole and die. And it's the most invasive and worst.”
“There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”
“There are some days when I, myself, think I'm overrated... but not today.”
“There are some days when no matter what I say it feels like I'm far away in another country & whoever is doing the translating has had far too much to drink.”
“There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.”
“There are some days where, at the end of the day, you've done OK. It's the most out-of-control feeling you possibly can have.”
“There are some dead who are more alive than the living.”
Source: Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe
“There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.”
“There are some decisions in life that only you can make.”
“There are some decisions, they have to be made! It can be taken in five minutes, it can be taken tomorrow, it can be taken the next day, but what is certain is that decision must be made, because not being able to make that decision is not a sustainable situation!”
“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”
Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices, &c. &c
“There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical love. We people who are attracted by the countryside cherish fond memories of certain springs, certain woods, certain ponds, certain hills, which have become familiar sights and can touch our hearts like happy events. Sometimes indeed the memory goes back towards a forest glade, or a spot on a river bank or an orchard in blossom, glimpsed only once on a happy day, but preserved in our heart.”
“There are some desires that are not desirable.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“There are some despotic governments so filled with a feeling of insecurity that they regard the free life of culture as a threat to their existence. ... On the other extreme is the kind of popular government which is so distrustful of all forms of distinction that it sees even in the cultivated individual a menace to its existence. Such states are likely to maintain a pressure which discourages cultural endeavor, although the pressure may be exerted through social channels.”
“There are some die-hard male chauvinist pigs and there are some Neanderthal women who are threatened by equality - but the great majority, polls say 65% to 75% of women of America, of all ages, absolutely identify with the complete agenda of the women's movement: equal opportunity for jobs, education, professional training, the right to control your own body - your own reproductive process, freedom of choice, child care-the whole agenda.”
“There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.”
“There are some directors I should have worked with. I`d like to have worked with Robert Altman - I turned him down a couple of times when I was younger. My thing now is if it`s a good director I`ll never say no - I`m just gonna say yes from now on.”
“There are some directors who don't like the set much. They like post-production, where you have all the ingredients in the can - you've got all the footage, all the music, the various effects - and then you have to do the alchemy necessary to make it all good, a long and very key process of putting everything together and making it into the cogent thing that you want.”
“There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for them, every day, and that's a terrible feeling on the set.”
“There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for, that have gagged generations, depriving them of significant and natural means of expression. This is a terrible loss and an unnecessary one.”
Source: No More Secondhand Art
“There are some discrepencies in the writings of Paul. Some Christians chose those ones that say that women should be restricted in their services. I choose to emphasize the equality of people in God's eyes.”
“There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.”
“There are some disturbing messages in the Koran, there were declarations of war against non-believers, there's a declaration that Islam should be triumphant over other religions, the problem is this is not just in the book, but preached throughout the Islamic world that are preached, we in the West hear about that.”
“There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. These dogs advance deliberately, purposefully, the wilderness made flesh, their teeth yellow, their breath a-stink, while in the distance their owners witter, "He's an old soppy really, just poke him if he's a nuisance," and in the green of their eyes the red campfires of the Pleistocene gleam and flicker.”
“There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf.”
“There are some doors that will never open until you dissociate from certain people, certain thoughts, and certain behaviours.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“There are some doubters even in the western villages. One woman told me last Christmas that she did not believe either in hell or in ghosts. Hell she thought was merely an invention got up by the priest to keep people good; and ghosts would not be permitted, she held, to go 'trapsin about the earth' at their own free will; 'but there are faeries,' she added, 'and little leprechauns, and water-horses, and fallen angels.' I have met also a man with a mohawk Indian tattooed upon his arm, who held exactly similar beliefs and unbeliefs. No matter what one doubts one never doubts the faeries, for, as the man with the mohawk Indian on his arm said to me, 'they stand to reason.' Even the official mind does not escape this faith. ("Reason and Unreason")”
Source: The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
“There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes
“There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.”
“There are some effects of the biome. Compact bodies tend to conserve heat relative to linear ones. This can affect average height as well as body proportions. The study participants Europeans and Americans do not fall into the range where this effect is powerful, however.”
“There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.”
“There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.”
Source: Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
“There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.”
“There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.”
“There are some exceptions: Chicago, my hometown, in particular. But overall in the country this is a much safer place than it used to be.”
“There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.”
Source: Married by Morning
“There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.”
“There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.”
“There are some facts that will never change. One fact is that you are forgiven. If you are in Christ, when he sees you, your sins are covered-he doesn't see them. He sees you better than you see yourself.”
Source: Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal
“There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.”
“There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.”
“There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.”
“There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“There are some females in the world who slip away from the public eye. You might see them walking past you in the lobby or behind the tinted windows of a limousine. They travel so much, you might only meet them in hotels. Last night, you wondered if you’d ever see those intelligent women again. How can any man be good enough for them?”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)
“There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.”
“There are some filmmakers like the Coen brothers that are very precise. They make shooting boards, they do it shot by shot, and they follow every single line in their own script. They make amazing movies, and I admire them so much, but I can't do that. I have no idea how the movie will exactly be. While shooting, I just try to create an accident that I don't control very well - grabbing things from different sources and ideas, and then having a sensation somewhere that it will make sense.”
“There are some films that arrive here from the international festival circuit almost incandescent with self-importance. They hover into the cinema in a kind of floating trance at how challenging and moving they are. They are films with a profound reluctance to get over themselves. They look up at the sceptical observer with the saucer-eyed saintliness of a baby seal in culling season, or a charity mugger smilingly wishing a nice day on the retreating back of a passer-by. One such is Babel.”
“There are some films that really break the mold, and some films that don't. I've been looking for films that break the mold a bit.”
“There are some fires you can't get out of- you've got to go through the fire - you've got to go through the flood - you've got to go through the test - you've got to go through the struggle that you might decrease and he might increase.”