T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“there is something dangerous about mirrors. ... What dynamite we handle when we lift a mirror or bend towards one! I seldom do.”
“There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)
“There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.”
“There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go?”
“There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.”
Source: Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy
“There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before.”
Source: The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
“There is something democratic about grass-roots, widespread money support. There is something anti-democratic about one person propping up a candidate who can't make it.”
“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.”
Source: the bell jar
“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction--every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour.”
Source: the bell jar
“There is something desperately lonely about Barack Obama's universe. One gets the overwhelming sense of someone yearning for connection, for something that binds human beings together, for community and commonality, for what he repeatedly calls "the common good". This is hardly news.”
“There is something different about women who were born by the sea, baptized in salt water, and raised by the tides. We were mermaids, adapting to the temperamental whims of storms that brewed beyond the shores.”
Source: The Violet Hour
“There is something disorderly about the death of a young person. In a universe disturbed by so much over which we have no control, an untimely tragedy rattles the teeth of our already shaken confidence. We want to domesticate death, fight it on our own turf, in familiar rooms with shades drawn evenly, top sheets turned back, and a circle of hushed voices closing in.”
Source: A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life
“There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it.”
“There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.”
Source: The American Mercury
“There is something divine in mindless beauty.”
Source: A Happy Death
“There is something dreamlike about the points that provide a view of the other side, but they belong not so much to the dreamtime as to dream work. The nomads enter the dreamtime not by setting off on some extraordinary, dangerous voyage, but through their everyday, ambulatory movement.”
Source: Ghosts
“There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.”
“There is something electrifying about individuals with adventuresome spirits. They see life through a different lens. They almost emit electricity because nothing about them is dull or uninteresting or unplugged.”
Source: I Married Adventure
“There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set in rehearsed snarls; their hair studiously unkempt and matted; their clothes part of some private conceit; and the way they walk and talk and the songs they sing all become part of some long mean reach for the jugular.”
“There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey . . . something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.”
Source: Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
“There is something else that is trying to come through - that lure of becoming - and it does come from the realm of spirit, it does come from the quantum universe, it does come from the great spark that is the threshold of time and history trying to emerge and electrify us.”
“There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.”
Source: The Simone Weil Reader
“There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds the shame we feel in the presence of the victims. For these victims are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them.”
“There is something eminently Chilean about avoiding confrontation, or about not clarifying the way you feel sometimes. It's a particular culture, where emotions are not discussed as profusely with your family or friends, nor shown in an explicit manner.”
“There is something endearing about the weatherman.”
“There is something essential about joining together with other believers to worship, to sing, to pray, to learn of God's will for us, and to acknowledge his goodness to us. He has commanded that this should be so.”
“There is something essential and necessary about the immediacy and democracy of poetry. If you look at the history of literature, poetry is the one enduring genre from Homer to Ashbery - no other literary form has lasted as long. The novel is only two or three hundred years old... And yes, it's mainstream if we look back, we often turn to poetry to encapsulate what was going on in a particular moment because it crystalizes the experience in a very condensed and meaningful way.”
“There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.”
“There is something eternal in the very nature of writing, as is so graphically illustrated by the scriptures themselves. In a very real sense, our properly written histories are a very important part of our family scripture and become a great source of spiritual strength to us and to our posterity”
“There is something eternally satisfying about lying motionless for hours on end, watching the world move around us like the shadow on a sundial.”
Source: A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2
“There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.”
“There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.”
“There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.”
“There is something expansive, even a little obsessive, about his mind. It’s full of curious and relics, monographs on music and reams of sheet music. She feels as though she is wandering around a charming if rather cramped second-hand bookshop. She wants to stay there, browsing through it all, for as long as possible.”
Source: When the Music Stops
“There is something extraordinary about people who have a disability to reach (into themselves) on a daily level that becomes supernatural.”
“There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.”
Source: Reached
“There is something f-king unbelievable about seeing all of the fans go crazy and chanting 'Ozzy!' I would pay to see them.”
“There is something false in this search for a purely feminine writing style. Language, such as it is, is inherited from a masculine society, and it contains many male prejudices. We must rid language of all that. Still, a language is not something created artificially; the proletariat can't use a different language from the bourgeoisie, even if they use it differently, even if from time to time they invent something, technical words or even a kind of worker's slang, which can be very beautiful and very rich. Women can do that as well, enrich their language, clean it up.”
“There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.”
Source: Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc.)
“There is something far more important than your present situation - your dream and your goal.”
“There is something far worse than poverty and fear. It is slavery ! I would trade all the wealth in the world to live a single moment of freedom.
Young Shivaji to his friends
(Quotes from "The King Shivaji Chronicles" )”
“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
“There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because the subjects never look happy to be there.”
“There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.”
Source: Dance to the Piper
“There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.”
Source: Human Society in Ethics and Politics
“There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought, and he therefore cannot carry his own reflection to any logical conclusion.”
“There is something female about being dead.”
Source: Blonde
“There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.”
Source: Wolf in White Van: A Novel
“There is something formless yet complete
That existed before heaven and earth.
How still! How empty!
Dependent on nothing, unchanging.
All pervading. Unfailing.
One may think of it as the
mother of all things under heaven.
I do not know its name,
But I call it “Meaning.”
If Il had to give it a name,
I should call it “The Great.”
Source: Tao Te Ching