T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The arrival in Paris, as grim as ever. The leprous façades of the Pont Cardinet flats, behind which one invariably imagines retired folk agonizing alongside their cat Poucette which is eating up half their pension with its Friskies. Those weird metal structures that indecently mount each other to form a grid of overhead wires. And the inevitable advertising hoardings flashing by, gaudy and repellent. ‘A gay and changing spectacle on the walls.’ Bullshit. Pure fucking bullshit.”
“The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.”
“The arrival of Ade Akinbiyi gave everyone a lift. He's a natural born goalscorer.”
“The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.”
“The arrival of language was like the invasion of a parasitic system. Co-opting those areas of the brain that were the least dedicated. The most susceptible to appropriation.”
Source: Stella Maris
“The arrival of television established a mass-media order that dominated the last 50 years. This is a personal media revolution. The distinction between the old order and the new order is very important. Television delivered the world to our living room. In the old media, all we could do was press our noses against the glass and watch.”
“The arrival of the Barbary pirates radically changed English attitudes. Instead of patriotic pirates plundering foreign cargoes and bringing them homes to enrich their countrymen, the 'Turks' were in the usual Mediterranean business of slave-raiding - and now the English were the victims. The West Country men suffered the heaviest, and did not appreciate the irony. The Newfoundland fishery, dominated by Devon ports, lost at least 20 ships in 1611 alone.”
“The arrival of the food snapped me out of my reverie. Like many chefs in Roma, the Farnese chef had taken much inspiration from Bartolomeo over the years. The first course included slices of Parmesan; olives from Tivoli; cherries in little gilded cups; a salad of sliced citron with sugar and rosewater; veal rolls dredged in coriander, spit-roasted, then topped with raisins soaked in wine; peas in the pod served with pepper and vinegar; salted buffalo tongue, cooked, then sliced and served cold with lemon; a delicate soup of cheese and egg yolks poured over roasted pigeon; blancmange white as snow and sprinkled with sugar; roasted artichokes and pine nut tourtes.”
Source: The Chef's Secret
“The arrival of the unforeseen reveals the depths of one's heart.”
“The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.”
“The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.”
“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.”
Source: Selected Letters of Edmund Burke
“The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.”
Source: The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'
“The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.”
“The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.”
“The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.”
“The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.”
“The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often the worst kind, and have been since the secular authorities stopped enforcing the local bishop's decrees of anathema.”
“The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you ... We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.”
“The arrogance of the human mind is too fragile, as well as the patience of the human character. It is because of that, they fail to see the power of mere observation and systematic analysis.”
“The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.”
“The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.”
“The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet demands that while the upholders of any creed are free to adopt their own existential absolutes, the right of others to do the same is thereby rendered implicit and sacrosanct. Thus the creed of inquiry, of knowledge and exchange of ideas, must be upheld as an absolute, as ancient and eternal as any other.”
“The arrogant generally deem the humble ignorant.”
“The arrogant half smile I disliked so much tipped up one corner of his swollen lips. “You’re barely glowing now.”
Source: Obsidian
“The arrogant man probably thought his path to heaven was already assured, and that he acted in accordance to God’s will just by breathing.”
Source: In Bed with a Highlander
“The arrow always tipped with ill nature and sarcasm is deadliest to him who sends it.”
Source: Thoughts are Things
“The Arrow and the Song
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.”
Source: The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems
“The arrow increased without motion, then in a quick swirl the trout lipped a fly beneath the surface with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut.”
Source: The Sound And The Fury
“The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution.”
“The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.”
Source: Only the Deplorable
“The arrow of time says that everything is moving from the highest possible symmetry to the most likely outcome.”
“The arrow, once in flight, cries happily, "I am free, I am free!" but in truth it deceives itself, for its destiny has been appointed by the aim of the marksman.”
“The arrow will not always find the mark intended.”
“The arrows are from her dowry.”
“The arrows of malevolence ... however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me; though, whilst I am up as a mark, they will be continually aimed.”
Source: Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life. May, 1789, to November, 1794 (v.10) November, 1794, to Demember, 1799 (v.11)
“The arsenal of megadeath can't be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to.”
“The Arsenal youth team is full of young players.”
“The arsenic eaters got used to eating arsenic, and didn’t realize it was harming them. In a similar way, we can get used to procrastinating, and not realize how much it is harming us.”
Source: Learning How to Learn
“The art (as opposed to the technology) of reading requires that you develop a beautiful tolerance for incomprehension. The greatest books are the books that you come to understand more deeply with time, with age and with rereading.”
“The art academies had offered a story of art as the conquest, loss, and finally reconquest of nature through the mastery of illusionistic technology, improved by a grasp of ideal beauty. Romanticism replaced this with the story of art as an acquisition and then loss of wisdom, warning us not to mistake naturalism or technical skill for such wisdom. Historicism proposed that each period expresses its view of the world through its own forms; no art form can be preferred for they are all true registrations of the evolving mind. Materialism, finally, a version of historicism, told the story of art as a series of local responses to conditions, materials, tools, and functions. The immediate purpose of Riegl's teleology was to counter the crass reductionism of the materialist version. He did this by insinuating that there was something animating the history of form, a ghost in the machine, a will to form that overrode pragmatic needs. There is a tension in Riegl's art history between the anthropomorphic concept of Kunstwollen, which locates the motor of history in the individual, and the teleological shape of history, the inexorable dematerialization and intellectualization of art, a schema inherited from Hegel and never justified philosophically by Riegl. For Riegl, all art is naturalistic; it is simply that each epoch sees nature differently. What they see is the true object of art. This transforms art history into a history of seeing, and therefore of thinking.”
Source: A History of Art History
“The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.”
“The art and act of writing - speaking just for myself - involves getting your proverbial ass in the proverbial chair.”
“The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it was painted, placed or built. Most of the art of the past that could be moved was taken by conquerors. Almost all recent art is conquered as soon as it's made, since it's first shown for sale and once sold is exhibited as foreign in the alien museums. The public has no idea of art other than that it is something portable that can be bought. There is no constructive effort; there is no cooperative effort. This situation is primitive in relation to a few earlier and better times.”
“The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.”
“The art and science of memory is about developing the capacity to quickly create images that link disparate ideas. Creativity is the ability to form similar connections between disparate images and to create something new and hurl it into the future so it becomes a poem, or a building, or a dance, or a novel. Creativity is, in a sense, future memory.”
“The art business is a rarified business and appeals to an audience capable of spending money on a luxury. Too often the atmosphere in a gallery borders on snobbishness.”
“The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.”
“The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.”