T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable. The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.”
Source: The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante Boxed Set
“There was something unbearably sexy about cars at night, Ronan thought. The way the fenders twisted the light and reflected the road, the way every driver became anonymous. The sight of them knocked his heartbeat askew.”
Source: The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)
“There was something unfinished about not saying farewell, like a door left open in the chill night.”
Source: Forest of a Thousand Lanterns
“There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not “decorate” it; she infused it.”
Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel
“There was something unnerving about her surroundings. She was unsure, not knowing whether this was her paranoia kicking in, or a warning. How could you tell?”
Source: The Colours of Denial
“There was something vaguely sad about the rock. It was as old as it looked, standing weathered and lonely amidst the stretch of sand, and its thoughts were quiet as it listened to the waves.”
Source: The Rock and the Bird
“There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative.”
Source: Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush
“There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.”
Source: Great Expectations: Easyread Comfort Edition
“There was something very comforting about him, and I was not sure if it was his easy manner or his complete immunity to my scowling.”
Source: Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel
“There was something very fishy about Riley Bay.”
Source: Awoken
“There was something very sexy about Mace going commando.
Very sexy.
Down Mace Slut! My brain commanded”
Source: Rock Chick Reckoning
“There was something very special about Doctor Who, and I did miss it a lot.”
“There was something wolfish about him. Not in the sexy Twilight New Moon way, but in the I’ll-eat-your-grandmother way.”
Source: Their Friend Scarlet
“There was something wonderful about the atmosphere at Stony Cross Park. One could easily imagine it as some magical place set in some far-off land. The surrounding forest was so deep and thick as to be primeval in appearance, while the twelve-acre garden behind the manor seemed too perfect to be real. There were groves, glades, ponds, and fountains. It was a garden of many moods, alternating tranquility with colorful tumult. A disciplined garden, every blade of grass precisely clipped, the corners of the box hedges trimmed to knife blade crispness.
Hatless, gloveless, and infused with a sudden sense of optimism, Annabelle breathed deeply of the country air. She skirted the edge of the terraced gardens at the back of the manor and followed a graveled path set between raised beds of poppies and geraniums. The atmosphere soon became thick with the perfume of flowers, as the path paralleled a drystone wall covered with tumbles of pink and cream roses.
Wandering more slowly, Annabelle crossed through an orchard of ancient pear trees, sculpted by decades into fantastic shapes. Farther off, a canopy of silver birch led to woodland beds that appeared to melt seamlessly into the forest beyond.”
Source: Secrets of a Summer Night
“There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see.”
“There was something, which was the turning point: I felt very strongly that women were sexualized, and perceived like they are sexual in every move, and it started off really early.”
“There was sort of a negative association with the military. Maybe growing up in the South or being in a family with members of the military, I didn't have that negative connotation, but I did have this 'separate' connotation. I was ashamed to realize I had it and did not realize I had it until I was [in Iraq]. I was so impressed by the people I met over there and there was just a sense of connection and gratitude towards those people.”
“There was specific constitutional provision for emergency measures in the case that Abraham Lincoln faced - an insurrection - which no other president has faced.”
“There was still a bit of sunshine in the sky, not that it mattered. High treetops and reaching branches entombed us from above in a dark coffin. It was still in the afternoon. We had time to gather things together for camp, but the choked rays that permeated the living casket were sputtering their last bits of life.
— Tyrus Savage narration from ORRLETH, Volume One of the Orrleth Young Adult Fantasy Paranormal Series”
Source: Orrleth
“There was still about them what had always reminded Magnus of an old legend he’d heard of the red thread of fate: that an invisible scarlet thread bound certain people, and however tangled it became, it could not and would not break.”
Source: The Midnight Heir
“There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.”
“There was still gold and silver in the mountains,
And hunger was a more immediate sorrow”
“There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we loved it... We realized how full we felt; we were surrounded by music and dancing and joy.”
Source: Revelations: the Autobiography
“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as their final expression, the purpose of all the things she loved on earth... To find a consciousness like her own, who would be the meaning of her world, as she would be of his... No, not Francisco d'Anconia, not Hank Rearden, not any man she had ever met or admired... A man who existed only in her knowledge of her capacity for an emotion she had never felt, but would have given her life to experience.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“There was still plenty of water in the basement, and I felt it soaking me from the knees on down. If someone wanted to torture me until I told them a critical piece of information, all they would have to do is get my socks wet. It feels terrible.”
“There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.”
Source: The Warrior Prophet: The Prince of Nothing, Book Two (The Prince of Nothing)
“There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.”
“There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .”
“There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.”
“There was such beauty, even in heartbreak, because of how much the love mattered. So much of the pain I’ve experienced in my life has been tied to love. To love is to accept pain, to take it in, to grow from it, and to love again.”
Source: Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
“There was such glittering darkness in her, an endless rift straight through her core”
Source: Heir of Fire
“There was such relief in the ordinary.”
Source: Borne
“There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.”
Source: The Remains of the Day
“There was talk of the Centaur being moved into the elephant cages to make room for a banjo-picking Minotaur. Surrendering his meager furnishings to a musical half man half bull was all bull.”
Source: Heebie-Jeebies: Volume One
“There was that billionaire in Manhattan got attacked by birds. The spider bites out in the Hamptons. And some guy in Texas was just eaten by feral hogs."
"Mother Nature's gone serial killer," his colleague quipped.
It sounded to Brigid like nature had finally gotten around to addressing a parasite problem. But for once, she held her tongue.”
Source: The Women of Wild Hill
“There was that damn constriction again, like I’d been punched in the chest, but in a good way. How you could be punched in a chest in a good way was beyond me, but damn, I sort of loved that feeling.”
Source: Onyx
“There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.”
“There was that half-smirk again, playing around his lips, as if he was deciding whether the situation was amusing enough to warrant a full smile.”
Source: Halo
“There was that joke people told, that they loved their children most when they were sleeping, hah-hah, and Patty felt a small stab. She really did like them best when they were sleeping, not asking any questions, not needing food or amusement, and she liked them second best when they were like this: tired, calm, disinterested in their mother.”
“There was that last blast of Westerns that came out in the Seventies, those Vietnam/Watergate Westerns where everything was about demystification. And I like that about those movies.”
“There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.”
Source: Conversations with Norman Mailer
“There was that moment of, "Oh, my parents are watching Columbo and I hate it" to "No, I love this show, too." And I feel like, for me, that was around 11 or 12, where I could actually join my parents in their viewing and wasn't so irritated that they were always watching Columbo.”
“There was that sense of we had turned the corner. All of that time, all of that work, all of that effort – we were poised to make that next jump.”
“There was that smile again. It started in his eyes, she realised. [...]”
Source: The Devil and the Dark Water
“There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best of all was the eager itch of anticipation as you went out the door with your arms loaded down with books.”
Source: The Velvet Room
“There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?”
Source: TAP & GOWN (EBK)
“There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.”
“There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and the ones that left a trace of lemon on your fingers, the ones that were the color of blood, and those that were as white as clouds. Each one was sweeter than the next and as red as gemstones.”
Source: The River King
“There was the bulge and the glitter, and there was the cold grip way down in the stomach as though somebody had laid hold of something in there, in the dark which is you, with a cold hand in a cold rubber glove. It was like the second when you come home late at night and see the yellow envelope of the telegram sticking out from under your door and you lean and pick it up, but don't open it yet, not for a second. While you stand there in the hall, with the envelope in your hand, you feel there's an eye on you, a great big eye looking straight at you from miles and dark and through walls and houses and through your coat and vest and hide and sees you huddled up way inside, in the dark which is you, inside yourself, like a clammy, sad little fetus you carry around inside yourself. The eye knows what's in the envelope, and it is watching you to see you when you open it and know, too. But the clammy, sad little fetus which is you way down in the dark which is you too lifts up its sad little face and its eyes are blind, and it shivers cold inside you for it doesn't want to know what is in that envelope. It wants to lie in the dark and not know, and be warm in its not-knowing.”
Source: All the King's Men
“There was the cruel kind of Eustace silence.”
Source: Eustace Chisholm and the Works