T Quotes
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“There are very few good writers about art, and you either get art-fashion writing with trendy views or you get very traditional writing. Occasionally, you get people who can write in an interesting way. Really, I think in a sense art writing needs to be renewed as well. It's in a pretty bad condition.”
“There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year.”
“There are very few guys like me. I make a lot of money. I didn't always.”
“There are very few heiresses among the women jockeying for eligible gentlemen on the marriage mart. And the cost of failure is high: lifelong dependence on disappointed parents and indifferent brothers, perhaps even the necessity of becoming a lady's companion or, worse, a governess. No one would have thought any less of Lady Ingram for marrying the richest man she could find, certainly not when he happened to be both striking in appearance and sterling of character. Her success was a fairy tale, something to aspire to.
"And if that fairy tale was to gradually lose its potency, well, such is life. What was not supposed to happen was her brutal honesty. The unspoken rule has always been that if a woman marries for money, she keeps that to herself and maintains an appearance of interest in her husband. Because that is what his money paid for. She is never supposed to not only confirm that she has never loved him but also denigrate him in the same breath for his said-to-be half-Jewish blood."
"I didn't know Society ladies cared that those of Jewish roots should not be taunted for that fact," said Treadles.
"What? No, they didn't care about that. They cared that Lady Ingram didn't just tear the fairy tale in two but spat on it. They cared that this sent a shiver through all the men of Society. If a paragon such as Lord Ingram couldn't find a wife who genuinely loved him, what chance did the other gentlemen have?”
Source: The Hollow of Fear
“There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.”
“There are very few high-quality garments being produced at all. A very, very, very small amount. So small that most people never even see it in their lifetimes. People are wearing rags, basically.”
“There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.”
Source: Aphorisms
“There are very few horror shows, where you have a long running arc. Most horror shows play as a sort of an anthology. Buffy - a terrific show - had the-demon-of-the-week. Twilight Zone - X Files - these things had an anthology approach. Our show is a long running drama with the same creatures every week.”
“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”
“There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.”
“There are very few innocent sentences in writing.”
“There are very few instances where writers have also been effective image makers - different skill sets are required.”
“There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.”
“There are very few interviews I turn down, because I really dig talking to people and hanging out.”
“There are very few Japanese Jews. As a result, there is no Japanese word for Alan King.”
“There are very few joys in life greater than spontaneity. Spontaneity means to be in the moment; it means acting out of your awareness, not acting according to your old conditionings.”
“There are very few lows but lots and lots of highs. You're in an incredibly privileged position because you're able to go along to major sporting events and be ringside. You can see and hear everything.”
“There are very few men and women, I suspect, who cooked and marketed their way through the past war without losing forever some of the nonchalant extravagance of the Twenties. They will feel, until their final days on earth, a kind of culinary caution: butter, no matter how unlimited, is a precious substance not lightly to be wasted; meats, too, and eggs, and all the far-brought spices of the world, take on a new significance, having once been so rare. And that is good, for there can be no more shameful carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts.”
Source: The Art of Eating
“There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution.”
Source: Evolution and Ethics
“There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.”
Source: Confessions of an advertising man
“There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment”
“There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!”
“There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.”
“There are very few moments in our lives where we have the privilege to witness history taking place. This is one of those moments. This is one of those times.”
“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”
“There are very few new things in this world, very few. That's why people that are young, if they're smart, try to profit from the experience of an older guy so they won't have to go through all the pain and suffering. But a certain amount of pain and suffer is good, because it makes a person think they've learned.”
“There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.”
“There are very few people admired in history for the accumulation of wealth alone.”
Source: Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America by John Lewis
“There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They're very, very precious to me.”
“There are very few people in our society who are actually free to say what they believe. I am in an extremely fortunate position in having this enormous gift of freedom and believe I should try to use it to do something useful for society. As long as I feel as if I have something to say, I’ll continue to try to do that.”
“There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.”
“There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.”
“There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.”
“There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.”
“There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.”
“There are very few people who do what I do.”
“There are very few people who give you real feedback.”
Source: The Storytelling Leader and other stories
“There are very few people who have committed more to the pro-life discourse than Rob has. He's spent time in jail. He has really lived it. He has committed everything he's had to it. If in fact he believes that every human life was sacred, I knew that if he had his conscious awakened, I knew he wouldn't be able to close his eyes to it.”
“There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.”
“There are very few perfect movies. This is okay, since in the pursuit of cinematic art, perfection shouldn't be the goal. Nevertheless, when it's accomplished (even by accident), it's an achievement.”
Source: Cinema Speculation
“There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.”
“There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.”
Source: Salmonia: or, Days of fly-fishing; in a series of conversations: with some account of the habits of fishes belonging to the genus Salmo. Consolation in travel, or, The last days of a philosopher
“There are very few persons who would think of inquiring into the private life of the newspaper dealer at the corner, or the druggist, or the doctor, or even a Mah Jong partner, but the moment one belongs to the theatrical profession, the public usually feels cheated unless it knows one's inmost thoughts of love.”
Source: The Eminent American Comedienne Marie Dressler in The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling: An Autobiographical Fragment in Seven Parts
“There are very few players who know what to do when they're not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don't mark him.”
“There are very few pop people I'm interested in working with.”
“There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.”
“There are very few profound sayings in the world.”
“There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.”
“There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.”
“There are very few really stark black and white stories.”