T Quotes
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“There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, "Le jeu et les moi." It's impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound. It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.”
“There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend.”
“There is a sort of backlash of people who feel like you're not representing them accurately, and you want to say as elegantly as you can, "I wasn't trying to represent you I, was just doing what I could do to make being alive easier for me." And if it helped anyone or made them feel comforted in the process then it's the greatest thing you can ask for.”
“There is a sort of busy worm,
That will the fairest book deform.
Their tasteless tooth will tear and taint
The poet, patriot, sage or saint,
Nor sparing wit nor learning.
Now, if you’d know the reason why,
The best of reasons I’ll supply:
’Tis bread to the poor vermin.
J. Doraston, quoted by W. Blades”
Source: Inkheart
“There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.”
“There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.”
“There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.”
“There is a sort of creative purity in an independent film, in the passion of the director, the passion of the crew. They're not getting a whole lot of money, so you know they are not there because they want to get rich. Instead, they are there because they want to make a movie. In the bigger films, I remember when I used to do those, it's just a job for a lot of people, so there is less of an intense energy devoted to the whole project.”
“There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.”
Source: The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume
“There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.”
“There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.”
“There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.”
“There is a sort of fair play, and if you can get in touch with that in your life, if you can have that perception, the world will begin to work for you, it will begin to move toward you... Nature loves courage, and it shows you that loves courage because it will remove obstacles.”
“There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.”
Source: Complete Essays
“There is a sort of half-formed thoughts, which we sometimes find writers impatient to give to the world, before they themselves are fully possessed of them. Now, if the writer himself perceive confusedly and imperfectly the sentiments he would communicate, it is a thousand to one, the reader will not perceive them at all.”
Source: The Philosophy of Rhetoric
“There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.”
Source: Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2
“There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.”
Source: Middlemarch
“There is a sort of light surrounding Abel, something pure and strong radiates from him no matter where he is or what he's doing. Sometimes Cain thinks he possesses a soul without shadows. That's what people want to be close to. But if so, it's not like a child's, for a child's soul is delicate, its flickering flame needs no more than the opening of a door onto the world to blow it out. Nothing can destroy Abel's light. In his presence one never feels wicked, only foolish. That darkness which in solitude can seem so powerful, occasionally even intoxicating, seems risible in his company.”
“There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.”
“There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“There is a sort of mental treason
That smothers dreams outside of reason”
Source: Laughter of the Damned
“There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.”
“There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have.... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in which the freedom of individuals and economic or social determinations come and get entangled. When someone lays a finger on one of those great themes--continuity, the effective exercise of human liberty, how individual liberty is articulated with social determinations--when someone touches one of these three myths, these good people start crying out that History is being raped or murdered.”
“There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.”
“There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath the heavy blows of a great adversity. The palm-tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, even so the character of man. There is no merit in it, it is a law of psychology. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom. There is less danger in this than in great good luck.”
Source: Proceedings, Speeches,&c. at the Dinner given to Louis Kossuth at the National Hotel, Washington, Jan. 7, 1852
“There is a sort of Neo-Confederate thread that runs through these sort of pro-gun movements and the NRA movement.”
“There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.”
Source: Felix Holt, The Radical
“There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.”
“There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.”
“There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.”
Source: A Persian pearl, and other essays
“There is a soul weariness that comes with caring. From daily doing business with the handiwork of fear. Sometimes it lives at the edges of one's life, brushing against hope and barely making its presence known. At other times, it comes crashing in, overtaking one with its vivid images of another's terror with its profound demands for attention; nightmares, strange fears, and generalized hopelessness.”
“There is a Soul within the Soul. Seek it out. There is a Treasure in your mountain. Seek it Out. A mystic in motion, if that's what you are, don't seek out there; seek inside.”
Source: The Spiritual Poems of Rumi
“There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.”
Source: Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations
“There is a sound reason why one and a half billion dollars are spent for cosmetics in your country every year, and only half that sum for education: There are no naturally pretty girls in the United States.”
Source: Anything But Love: A Complete Digest of the Rules of Feminine Behavior from Birth to Death ...
“There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.”
“There is a source of power in each of us that we don't realize until we take responsibility.”
“There is a source within us that always works to bring things into the light.”
“There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.”
Source: The Waverley Novels: The bride of Lammermoor. A legend of Montrose. Ivanhoe
“There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“There is a space in your heart that is reserved for your own self’s love”
Source: How To Wear A Crown: A Practical Guide To Knowing Your Worth
“There is a spark of good in everybody, no matter how deeply it may be buried. It is the real you.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.”
“There is a special aura about artists who take their visions to the highest pinnacles of success ... I get very excited about the magnitude of the aura I see, when Alan performs.”
“There is a special blessing in old clothes, and that aside from their comfort, for which especially they are to be cherished. They confer a kind of anonymity on one who wears them gladly; all their bright places rubbed to a uniform dullness, they achieve an appearance so nearly nondescript that only a close scrutiny could learn that ever they held shape at all.”
Source: Fantastic Traveller
“There is a special bond between twin soul mates - unconditional love, respect for each other, bringing out the best in each other, and highly compatible.”
“There is a special charm to journeys undertaken before daybreak in hot lands: the air is soft and cool and the coming of dawn reveals a landscape fresh from the night dew.”
Source: Letters From Burma:
“There is a special essence about someone who is about to change your life, fated by the stars, like the universe planned it all along. Somehow these connections aren’t always designed to stay, like a shooting star - Magical yet fleeting.”
“There is a special kind of silence when you live alone. it hangs around, waiting for you to find it. You try to cover it up with all sorts of other noises, but always there, at the end of everything else, expecting you.”
Source: Three Things About Elsie
“There is a special loneliness in unshared music, even if it was 'The White Cliffs of Dover'.”
Source: Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
“There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman”