T Quotes
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“There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.”
Source: The Courage of Turtles
“There aren't many laughs in that and I remember doing a look and everybody laughed and I just thought, wow, that's incredible how you can do that. So I did another look and they laughed again and then I remember thinking, hold on, this isn't right for this piece, you've got to stop it.”
“There aren't many male stars - that's a loose term - like Kirk [Douglas] around. Most of those virile personalities have to keep working, continue the image because they can't do anything else. They don't even read. Their real identity is in making those pictures. They have to keep jumping on horses and hitting somebody on the head with a gun.”
“There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes.”
Source: The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
“There aren't many other labels who I can say are that successful, and can give me as much as 4AD gives me, and still have such a great roster.”
“There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their lives for it.”
“There aren't many political humorists. Dave Barry is excellent, but he doesn't do it much.”
“There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.”
“There aren't many pratfalls in comedy anymore.”
“There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett.”
“There aren't many shy writers left.”
“There aren't many sins in my bible. Giving up is the greatest one of all.”
Source: Burned: Fever Series
“There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny.”
“There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal with this condition, feels the less effort it requires, the better. Whereas learning about the world is labor, and a great all-consuming one at that. Most people develop quite antithetical talents, in fact - to look without seeing, to listen without hearing, mainly to preserve onself within oneself.”
Source: Travels with Herodotus
“There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.”
“There aren't many women now I'd like to see as President - but there are fewer men.”
“There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.”
“There aren't really any actual misconceptions, just dumb people versus good, honest people.”
“There aren't really many compliments flying around with me and my friends. It's a lot of tough love. But you know, that love is there and if you need to have a serious conversation you just gotta wait for the right time to do it.”
“There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another surface and sort of translate it. They’re like translations, and then part of it is fiction, which is invention.”
“There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?”
“There aren't that many galleries in Havana. There are a few state galleries and an ever-increasing but still limited number of independent galleries; there's no comparison with the number in New York.”
“There aren't that many people walking about who are a total class stereotype.”
“There aren't that many people who have written seven-book series, taken them 17 years. Actually finishing was (the) most remarkable feeling I've ever had. (I) couldn't tell you which was uppermost - euphoria or feeling devastated.”
“There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you.”
“There aren't that many songs that pay homage to the DJ. They are the ones getting artists' music out there. They are the ones getting the club popping. But no one's giving them any love.”
“There aren't that many superstars around anymore.”
“There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.”
“There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.”
Source: Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King
“There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.”
“There aren't very many women of color in positions of power, period. Much less on television.”
“There arent any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So youre just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.”
“There arent many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called Horned Pigeon. He had been on the run and hadnt eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable.”
“There aren’t enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now”
“There aren’t many honest men or women in Washington anymore. Politicians get where they are by the sheer force of their egos, not their convictions. And you know what? It’s our fault as voters. We don’t demand better candidates, so we end up getting what we deserve—on both sides of the aisle.”
Source: Brad Thor Collectors' Edition #3: The Last Patriot, The Apostle, and Foreign Influence
“There aren’t many sure things in life, but one thing I know for sure is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things.”
Source: Rosie Dunne
“There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.”
Source: Novum Organum
“There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.”
“There, at Finisterrre, I understood that life is a sum of Caminos we choose to take and each of them is a mix of joy, pain and full happiness.
The balance is always in our hands!”
Source: THE UNSTOPPABLE THIRST : El Camino de Santiago de Compostela An Alchemic Path Towards The Inner Self
“There, at last, is his heart.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“There at least is a first affirmation, I mean negation, on which to build.”
Source: The Unnamable
“There at the cross, we see all pain and darkness conquered in such a way that it is defeated forever. Not by disregarding it. Not by denying it. But by giving value even to our tears. By loving everything about us, including our very worst hurts.”
Source: 366 Days of Compassion: One Year Catholic Devotional
“There, at the top of the table, alone amongst all these women, stooped over his ample plateful, with his napkin tied around his neck like a child, an old man sat eating, drips of gravy drbibbling gravy from him lips. His eyes were bloodshot and he had a little pigtail tied up with a black ribbon. This was the Marquis' father-in-law... he had led a... Read more tumultuous life of debauchery and duelling, of wagers made and women abducted, had squandered his fortune and terrified his whole family... Emma's eyes kept coming back to this old man with the sagging lips, as though to something wonderfully majestic. He had lived at court and slept in the bed of a queen!”
“There, at the very edge, bordering on the collapse of reality and the dawn of oblivion, an uncanny stillness pins me down to my bed. The world beyond my eyelids, unsteady under a convulsing sky, swings in rhythm with my faltering movements, shifting from pulse to pause, to pulse, to pause.”
Source: We Are Everyone
“There be a lot o’ men who became heroes ’cuz they wuz too scared tae run!”
Source: Wintersmith
“There be also many wicked men that have the comeliness of a beautiful countenance, and it seemeth that nature hath so shaped them because they may be the readier to deceive, and that this amiable look were like a bait that covereth the hook.”
Source: The Book of the Courtier
“There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else he cannot be obeyed. But I never said that a king, and every one of his persons, are the same substance.”
Source: Leviathan, Parts I and II - Revised Edition
“There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For a garden is Arcady brought home. It is man's bit of gaudy make-believe - his well-disguised fiction of an unvexed Paradise ... a world where gayety knows no eclipse and winter and rough weather are held at bay.”
“There be many wise men, that have secret hearts, and transparent countenances.”
“There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.”
Source: H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Complete Fiction in One Volume: The Call of Cthulhu, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Dunwich Horror and Many More: The Whisperer in Darkness, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, The Rats in the Walls, The Shunned House, The Shadow Out of Time, The Alchemist, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Silver Key, The Templeäó_