T Quotes
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“There's something fascinating about seeing something you don't like at first but directly know you will love—in time. People are that way, all through life. You come against a personality, and it questions yours. You shy away but know there are gratifying secrets there, and the half-open door is often more exciting than the wide.”
Source: I like what I know: a visual autobiography
“There's something fascinating about watching artists draw.”
“There's something final about saying you were married once. It's like saying you were dead once. It shuts them up.”
Source: Wilderness Tips
“There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with.”
“There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.”
Source: Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life
“There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.”
“There's something funny about being on a big stage and not making a big effort to fill it up.”
“There's something going on right now in America, where the American spirit or character is reasserting itself around liberty. I think it's an important time, and I'm trying to document that as an artist. If I just filter what I read through the media, if I just go through what I read through the media, I'm not really in touch with the world I grew up in. I know there's a gap there, I talk to my relatives, I talk to people I meet traveling around, and their mind is on something completely different.”
“There's something grand and revolutionary still about [women] traveling alone. There are some parts of the world where you can't.”
“There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.”
“There's something great about terrible westerns. They look like gay dancers and bad, overwrought dialogue and overacting, black and white sped up horses.”
“There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good.”
“There's something grueling but very appealing about rough, to-the-bone material in a low budget context. There's less between you and the material. There are less people. There is less time. There's often less technology. You have to concentrate very intensely, and you jump in a little deeper because there's nothing in your way... but there are challenges.”
“There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“There's something helpful about the fast pace of a TV set where everything has to be finished by the end of the week. You have to finish the episode; it doesn't matter how long you have to go on Friday night, but you have to get it done.”
“There's something honorable about holding out for love and not breaking up for the sake of the baby. I see people get divorced, and there is a part of me that thinks, I wonder how hard they tried?”
“There's something human that has to do with time and space and being who I am that is in progress and always will be in progress. And who I am, on different days, different moments, depends on different aspects of my past.”
“There's something hypocritical about a city that keeps half of its population underground half of the time; you can start believing that there's much more space than there really is-to live, to work.”
“There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the true refuge of the pseudo-intellectual, .. Cynicism is easy. Joy is an extremely advanced spiritual and intellectual tenet.”
“There's something I call 'Moving Day,' which I've done for the last 20 years. Look at everything in your home, then think about how you could combine things in a different way. Maybe you break up your night tables and use one in the family room; maybe the dining room sideboard becomes a console table for your television, with storage underneath.”
“There's something I call telegenekicity, and it's not about just models. Of course, I can reference Iman, Tatiana Patitz, Kelly Emberg, Bonnie Berman - I go all the way back - but I think that you develop an eye to register iconic images - like Greta Garbo and Elizabeth Taylor.”
“There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got nausea, thinking, "Don't even try to be smart, it's absurd."”
“There's something I find very satisfying about a nice ironic twist.”
“There's something I have about being Canadian - there's a distance it gives you when you live in the States and operate in American culture. You approach familiar things a different way; you come at it from a different angle. It's a trait that runs through a lot Canadian artists' work and actors' work and musicians' - that kind of special remove.”
“There's something I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over.”
Source: Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
“There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.”
“There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees.”
“There's something I really like about network TV. You have this humongous audience, tens of millions of people, and you really can be in a little hut in Thailand; you really can be in the middle of an apartment in Dubai. There's something about public entertainment that I always liked. I like smaller movies, and I like public entertainment.”
“There's something I want you to know,' said Cherryl, her voice taut and harsh, 'so that there won't be any pretending about it. I'm not going to put on the sweet relative act. I know what you've done to Jim and how you've made him miserable all his life. I'm going to protect him against you. I'll put you in your place. I'm Mrs. Taggart. I'm the woman in this family now.' 'That's quite all right,' said Dagny. 'I'm the man.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“There's something I'm afraid to say to you too early, but I'd be a fool to wait too late.”
“There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem - whether it's the music or some other element of it - that just seems to access another part of the brain. You know, Charles Olson talks about this transfer of energy that happens between the writer and the reader of the poem. I guess there's something essential to me about acknowledging upfront the immensity of it - the difficulty of it - and even allowing that to be the subject.”
“There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem. It makes sense in my own mind, but I'm trying to figure out a way to articulate it... It's like looking at a painting: you're able to take in the totality of the work all at once, and so processing whatever information that painting is giving you is almost secondary to simply apprehending what's in front of you.”
“There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.”
“There's something in a flying horse,
There's something in a huge balloon.”
“There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.”
“There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.”
“There's something in everyone only they know.”
“There's something in human beings, not all human beings, that is ready for the change in consciousness. It needs to happen now if humanity is not to destroy itself and the planet.”
“There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.”
“There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting. It just seems like that element of trying to move forward while things are breaking down... Obviously, it's always been the backdrop for a lot of great literature and great cinematic characters, but aside from that, I'm just drawn to it because that feels honest to me.”
“There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays
“There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.”
Source: Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
“There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist.”
“There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.”
“There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.”
“There's something in our makeup and in our bodies that really wants to luxuriate more in just the joy of being alive and not always consuming, creating, building. There's something inside of us that wants desperately to stop and experience and just be - not just always do.”
“There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the main characters.”
“There's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness.”
“There's something in the cross that says this is not just about my "salvation" but about the "salvation" of all those who suffer injustice and inequality.”
“There's something in the German language that makes you feel like you're getting a hug and a backstab at the same time.”