T Quotes
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“There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.”
“There were nights for instance, especially in August, where the view of the full moon from the top of the Acropolis hill or from a high terrace could steal your breath away. The moon would slide over the clouds like a seducing princess dressed in her finest silvery silk. And the sky would be full of stars that trembled feebly, like servants that bowed before her. During those nights under the light of the August full moon, the city of Athens would become an enchanted kingdom that slept lazily under the sweet light of its ethereal mistress.”
Source: The Necklace of Goddess Athena
“There were nights in the city, in the academy, and even nights alone in his apartment, Grayson thought he was immersed in the darkness. But as he looked back, not even the sun's rays pierced through the flora before them. It was nothing like those nights where he tried to figure out his sense of place amongst a world unabashed in its desire to use him.”
Source: Nomad's Pursuit: Into The Savage Book 1
“There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild sea-songs, minding nobody... Often I have heard the house shaking with Yo-ho-ho and a bottle and rum, all the neighbours joining in for dear life with the fear of death upon them and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark. Fiften men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil have done for the rest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!”
“There were nine children in my fathers family and eight in my mothers. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They kept the family going.”
“There were no "unemployed" in the impoverished Polish countryside before the Second World War. Not a single unemployed. Every child that was born in the peasant family had his room at the table and his job in the field, stable or pigsty... If there was not enough food, everybody got less. If food was plentiful, everybody ate better. In such a setting, we may say, the problem of security couldn't even arise... One was born with life-long rights; the only thing that one could not do was to change them. A setting good on the side of security, though bad on the side of freedom.”
“There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers considered novel-writing a gateway to madness.”
Source: Something Different
“There were no actual villains, just inertia. The administration genuinely wanted more diversity for reasons of its image as well as fairness, notwithstanding the cranky alumni letters in The Daily Princetonian. ... Hiring committees had not a clue where to look for or how to attract suitable candidates. And so, though a high-level recruitment plan existed on paper, there was only foot-dragging and defensive excuse making.”
Source: My Beloved World
“There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.”
“There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven”
Source: The Collected Essays & Addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...
“There were no books to help me so I wrote the book”
Source: Angels Watching Over Me
“There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.”
“There were no constellations bright enough to blind me to him.”
Source: Borne
“There were no control room humidifiers when I worked atop the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea and they showed up as I was leaving.”
“There were no deaths. It was miraculous, but Limpopo had a theory: "I think the bombers lost their nerve. The stables went up during their maintenance cycle, when there'd be no one there. The power plant went up ten minutes later, plenty of time for everyone to be on the lawn, staring at the stables, far from the blast. The inn's explosives, going off hours later? Either we're dealing with a terrorist who sucks at timers, or they wanted to be sure of minimal casualties. It's what you'd do if you wanted to convince your bosses you'd been a good little mad bomber, but didn't want too much blood on your hands.”
Source: Walkaway
“There were no doors. No lights.
No sounds. Not even a trickle of water.
But I could feel them.
I could feel them sleeping, pacing, running hands and claws over the other side of the wall.
They were ancient, and cruel in a way I had never known, not even with Amarantha. They were infinite, and patient, and had learned the language of darkness, of stone.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“There were no doubts. My new friends obviously ‘collected’ men from different countries. I realized that therein lies their revenge on their errant husbands.”
Source: Through the Magic Sunglasses
“There were no doubts the government was engaging in a global misinformation campaign regarding the deadly Maui wildfires disaster.”
“There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.”
“There were no exceptions for the aged, the ill, the women in pregnancy.”
Source: The Blackest Page of Modern History: Events in Armenia in 1915 : The Facts and the Responsibilities
“There were no footmarks.'
'Meaning that you saw none?'
'I assure you, sir, that there were none.'
'My good Hopkins, I have investigated many crimes, but I have never yet seen one which was committed by a flying creature. As long as the criminal remains upon two legs so long must there be some indentation, some abrasion, some trifling displacement which can be detected by the scientific searcher.”
Source: The Return of Sherlock Holmes
“There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.”
Source: For the Time Being
“There were no formulas to account for the idiosyncratic yearnings of a human heart, no ways to extract from someone feelings that lived as matter-of-factly as blood and bones inside of him. In the end, Griffin thought, we are only who we are.”
Source: Say When
“There were no furnishings and no decorations-- except the wall on the opposite side had a small alcove, and in the alcove was a bronze statue of a bird, green with age. I thought it might be a sparrow, but it was so corroded that I couldn't tell for sure.
I wondered if it might be the statue of a Lar.
In this room--like the first hallway-- the air smelled of summer. But there was no half-heard laughter on the air, no sense that space was subtly wrong, nor that invisible eyes were watching. There was only the warm, peaceful stillness that exists between one summer breeze and the next. A trickle of water ran down the wall on my left and pooled before the alcove; I drew a breath, and my lungs filled with the mineral scent of water over warm rock.
Without thinking, I sat down and leaned back against the wall. It was not smooth; the stones formed hard, uneven ripples behind my back-- yet the tension ran out of my body. I stared at the bronze sparrow, and I did not entirely fall asleep, but I almost dreamt: my mind was full of summer breezes, the warm, wet smell of earth after summer rain, the delight of running barefoot through damp grass and finding the hidden tangle of strawberries.”
Source: Cruel Beauty
“There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee... This was all stuff that was previously known.”
“There were no gods in the shrine she passed, at least not visible ones. Gods never showed themselves to humans even when they dumped miracles on them, which Shesheshen thought was wise. If humans got used to the presence of gods, they'd probably hunt them for profit and glory and other nonsense, just as they did to monsters. Gods were smart to keep a light touch.”
Source: Someone You Can Build a Nest In
“There were no grown-ups in the room, evidently they had all run out of the apartment.
‘They’re breaking the windows,’ the boy said and called: ‘Mama!’
No one answered, and then he said:
‘Mama, I’m afraid.’
Margarita drew the little curtain aside and flew in.
‘I’m afraid,’ the boy repeated, and trembled.
‘Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, little one,’ said Margarita, trying to soften her criminal voice, grown husky from the wind. ‘It’s some boys breaking windows.’
‘With a slingshot?’ the boy asked, ceasing to tremble.
‘With a slingshot, with a slingshot,’ Margarita confirmed, ‘and you go to sleep.’
‘It’s Sitnik,’ said the boy, ‘he’s got a slingshot.’
‘Well, of course it’s he!’
The boy looked slyly somewhere to the side and asked:
‘And where are you, ma’am?’
‘I’m nowhere,’ answered Margarita, ‘I’m your dream.’
‘I thought so,’ said the boy.
‘Lie down now,’ Margarita ordered, ‘put your hand under your cheek, and I’ll go on being your dream.’
‘Well, be my dream, then,’ the boy agreed, and at once lay down and put his hand under his cheek.”
Source: Master and Margarita: Translated from the Russian
“There were no guarantees in life. There were no guarantees that love would last, but we were also not guaranteed there would be another tomorrow to try again.”
Source: The other side
“There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.”
Source: Pride: the Charley Pride story
“There were no horror movies or horror books to speak of in the '40s. I picked the '50s because that pretty well spans my life as an appreciator - as somebody who's been involved with this mass cult of horror, from radio and movies and Saturday matinees and books. In the '40s there really wasn't that much. People don't want to read about horrible things in horrible times. So, in the '40s, there was Val Lutin with The Cat People and The Curse of the Cat People and there wasn't much else.”
“There were no hundreds and hundreds of cases of domestic violence. I would have no knowledge of that or have any idea how I would authenticate that. That was never the intent of the writer's conversation with me.”
“There were no ideas in music, only touch and instinct and sometimes grace—the mechanical tools—and that among those who were given the tools, only a few, a scant few, would be able to tell you something true.”
Source: Power Ballads
“There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.”
“There were no jewelry hidden. Walt wanted this atmosphere: They were supposed to live here, they've been outside somewhere, but they could come back at any minute and catch us.”
“There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.”
“There were no judgments to be made, yet out of necessity one had to select. Beyond good and evil was all right in theory, but to go on living one had to select: some were kinder than others, some were simply more interested in you, and sometimes the outwardly beautiful and inwardly cold were necessary. The kinder ones fucked better, really, and after you were around them a while they seemed beautiful because they were.”
Source: Women
“There were no kisses worth dying for. No souls worth merging with. There were many beautiful young men in the world, but Tella believed none of them could be trusted with something as fragile, or vulnerable as a heart.”
Source: Legendary
“There were no Latin people on 'Star Trek,' that this was proof that they weren't planning to have us around for the future.”
“There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed.”
Source: The Folklore of Discworld
“There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Sears' basement. Despite all the Indians on the escalator, Columbus' visit came to be known as a "discovery.”
Source: Another Roadside Attraction
“There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They were like the weather, they didn't have a mind. They merely drenched you or struck you like lightning and moved on, mindless as blizzards. Or they were like rocks, a line of sharp slippery rocks with jagged edges. You could walk with care along between the rocks, picking your steps, and if you slipped you'd fall and cut yourself, but it was no use blaming the rocks.”
Source: Two Solicitudes: Conversations
“There were no milestones in the Copper Country. Often a traveler could only measure the progress of a journey by the time it took to get from each spoiled or broken thing to the next: a half-day’s walk from a dry well to the muzzle of a cannon poking out of a sand-slope, two hours to reach the skeletons of a man and a mule. The land was losing its battle with time. Ancient and exhausted, it visited decrepitude on everything within its bounds, as though out of spleen.”
Source: The Etched City
“There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized in a brutal wash of despair, is a false god I’ve chased my entire life. One that cost me everything in the blind search for sensation. My entire existence amounted to nothing.”
“There were no more nation-states, only a world government.”
Source: The Polymorph
“There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.”
“There were no oceans on Oasis, no large bodies of water, and presumably no fish.
He wondered whether this would cause comprehension problems when it came to certain crucial fish-related Bible stories. There were so many of those: Jonah and the whale, the miracle of the loaves and the fishes, the Galilean disciples being fishermen, the whole ‘fishers of men’ analogy . . . the bit in Matthew 13 about the kingdom of heaven being like a net cast into the sea, gathering fish of every kind . . . Even in the opening chapter of Genesis, the first animals God made were sea creatures. How much of the Bible would he have to give up as untranslatable?”
Source: The Book of Strange New Things
“There were no other vessels in the sound; the big white sports fisherman streaked along like a solitary comet on the surface of the world.”
Source: Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller
“There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.”
“There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours.”