T Quotes
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“They both sang. My grandmother had a very haunted mountain voice and would sing hymns. My grandpa would sing but in a very, very subdued way.”
“They both see the truth of this war, but Ashley is willing to die about it and Rhett isn't. I think that shows Rhett's good sense. She paused a moment, horror struck that she could have such a thought about Ashley. They both see the same unpleasant truth, but Rhett likes to look it in the face and enrage people by talking about it-and Ashley can hardly bear to face it.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden gets lifted, and the sense of homecoming that follows, when you suddenly remember what it feels like to be yourself.”
“They both smiled at the picture of Albert in his chinos and button-down shirt exhorting kids from atop a bike.”
“They both start with a B. Do you think Baudelaire sounds like Bernhardt?" Her niece eyed her for a moment, then shook her head. "Mommy always says you say the strangest things.”
Source: Mademoiselle le Sleuth
“They both turned at the same time. They were close against each other. She felt him trembling and her fists were tight enough to crack. 'Oh, God,' he kept saying over and over. It was like her head was broke off from her body and thrown away. And her eyes looked up straight into the blinding sun while she counted something in her mind. And then this was the way.
This was how it was.”
Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
“They both were silent for a very long time, as Nora observed all the books all around her. All the possibilities. Calmly and slowly, she walked along the aisle, wondering what lay beyond the covers of each book, and wishing the green spines would offer some kind of clue.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn't allow visitors in the clubhouse.”
“They broke my heart and they killed me, but I didn't die. They tried to bury me, they didn't realize I was a seed.”
“They brought me word of your death,
Heraklieitos,
and I wept for you
remembering how often we watched the sun
setting as we talked.
Dear Halikarnassian friend,
you lie elsewhere now
and are mere ashes;
yet your songs—your nightingales—will live,
and never will the underworld,
destroying everything,
touch them with its deadly hand.”
“They brought on someone who cost more than our stadium.”
“They build it, get it working and keep band-aiding it until it completely fails, then it becomes a crisis and gets updated.”
“They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole.”
“They build their own Hells.”
“They build too low who build beneath the skies.”
“They built a city of their dreams, with a thriving gift economy and vibrant culture that encouraged all participants to let loose their wildest, most glorious freak. They weren’t protesting; they were celebrating.”
Source: The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic
“They built an AI to predict the future. Someone rewired it to control the present.”
Source: Technofascist Protocol: New World Order
“They built their own lesser cities, tumbling into cemeteries and ruins, rising on the walls of elderly, long-forgotten settlements. Cities of corrugated metal sheets, cheap wood and rotting blankets, the remains of the world for the remains of the people.”
Source: Wasps
“They buried all my words in the grave. Years later, she came and dug them up for her book. Now my soul sleeps in the peace of so many libraries.”
“They buried him in dirt that smelled like broken batteries, and crouched in a fiberglass shed while the acid rain poured down to dissolve his flesh and bleach his bones.”
Source: Fragments
“They buried him in the afternoon. Pip and Josh would plant sunflowers over his grave in the spring, because they were golden and happy, just like him.”
Source: Holly Jackson Collection: 3 Books Set
“They burn books now, mama.The monsters burn fucking books now, mama. They have eyes full of disappointing madness. Their tongues taste like fulvous indoctrination. They teach us. Teach us sadism, hatred, lust to kill, conformity. What do you see when you look at me? Daddy?”
Source: Seraphic Addiction
“They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died.”
Source: The Death of Vivek Oji
“They burned the bridge, then ask why I don’t visit.”
“They burnt crosses every night all around us, and a man who'll burn what he prays to, he’ll burn anything.”
Source: Jordan County
“They burnt not children before their teeth appeared, as apprehending their bodies too tender a morsel for fire, and that their gristly bones would scarce leave separable relicks after the pyral combustion. That they kindled not fire in their houses for some days after was a strict memorial of the late afflicting fire. And mourning without hope, they had an happy fraud against excessive lamentation, by a common opinion that deep sorrows disturb their ghosts.”
Source: Urne Burial
“They bustled around chatting. It was the first time I listened closely, and I was astonished at how much they had to say, the passion with which they repeated the same thing in ten different ways so as to avoid noticing, in fact, that they had absolutely nothing to say to each other for ages, but human beings need to speak, otherwise they lose their humanity”
Source: I Who Have Never Known Men
“They call each other ‘E.’ Elvis picks
wildflowers near the river and brings
them to Emily. She explains half-rhymes to him.
In heaven Emily wears her hair long, sports
Levis and western blouses with rhinestones.
Elvis is lean again, wears baggy trousers
and T-shirts, a letterman’s jacket from Tupelo High.
They take long walks and often hold hands.
She prefers they remain just friends. Forever.
Emily’s poems now contain naugahyde, Cadillacs,
Electricity, jets, TV, Little Richard and Richard
Nixon. The rock-a-billy rhythm makes her smile.
Elvis likes himself with style. This afternoon
he will play guitar and sing “I Taste A Liquor
Never Brewed” to the tune of “Love Me Tender.”
Emily will clap and harmonize. Alone
in their cabins later, they’ll listen to the river
and nap. They will not think of Amherst
or Las Vegas. They know why God made them
roommates. It’s because America
was their hometown. It’s because
God is a thing without
feathers. It’s because
God wears blue suede shoes.”
“They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice.”
Source: Healology
“They call her love, love, love, love, love. She is love, and she is all I need.”
“They call her my singer—because her blood sings for me.”
Source: New Moon
“They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace. "What a curious name!" "Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly.”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair
“They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes.”
“They call it 'falling in love' because it's less like stepping and more like tripping. Tripping is the part where you're still trying to remain upright”
Source: Where You Are
“They call it 'surfing' the net. It's not surfing. It's typing in your bedroom”
“They call it "business" because it does not become successful by a person's "idleness". Go get busy if you want to do business; but be busy for the right reasons!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.”
Source: Motivation Lombardi Style
“They call it collective energy. It's that same feeling that you get when you meditate amongst a ton of people. What actually makes the festival feel so special is that while you're watching a band or an artist, you're standing there, kind of feeling the same feeling with so many people in such a small space and that gives you collective energy. It's that kind of strange feeling in which you almost feel people breathing.”
“They call it football, but the object of the game is to bash the other guy so hard that he's eventually carried off the field on a stretcher. I can't watch football anymore. My psychiatrist said it's better that way. I used to watch a game, see the players in a huddle - and think they were talking about me.”
“They call it free time
and it's the biggest lie
because we are
still here”
Source: Punching the Air
“They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.”
“They call it lingerie. I call it sensual innovation.”
“They call it the Dementor’s Kiss,” said Lupin, with a slightly twisted smile. “It’s what dementors do to those they wish to destroy utterly. I suppose there must be some kind of mouth under there, because they clamp their jaws upon the mouth of the victim and — and suck out his soul.” Harry accidentally spat out a bit of butterbeer. “What — they kill — ?” “Oh no,” said Lupin. “Much worse than that. You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no… anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever… lost.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning.”
Source: Drowning Instinct
“They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)”
“They call it the Latin Quarter because nobody there is Latin and nobody has a quarter.”
“They call it the theatre of war for a reason. Nearly all wars are manipulated or arranged. The people who die and suffer are mostly the extras in the production. Those are the soldiers and the citizens. While the main players, the main actors, secretly meet backstage sipping champagne.”
“They call it torture when our guys put underwear on a guy's head, stripped him naked, put an egg between his buttcheeks and made him do jumping jacks. You know, if it can't get you into a fraternity at Chico State University, it's not torture.”
“They call it "young music"; I see, however, that the record industry makes millions by the carload for shrewd older people! They invoke the name of spontaneity, nonconformity and originality; actually, canny "clothing industrialists" manipulate the field, undisturbed sovereigns! They call themselves revolutionaries, but the overscrupulous attentions devoted to their hair and their dress risk creating merely effeminates.”
Source: Illustrissimi: Letters from Pope John Paul I