T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“They do say, the smaller the feet, the better the dancer.”
“They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up-But then one goes insane from giving up.”
Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
“They do that in Japan, you know. Rather a lot."
"Poems to foxes?"
"Perhaps, but I mean they're always tying white paper on strings around trees- it looks as though the trees have necklaces or garter belts. Are you sure your witch friend wasn't Japanese? Their spirit world is full of foxes. They are called kitsune, and some are divine and some are mischievous or wicked.”
Source: The Garden Party: A Novel
“They do the same thing [with cigarette] that they do in the kind of action picture where you know 200 people are killed and then there's no pain.”
“They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be someone feeding you lines while you were performing.”
“They do think the world is some kind of science-fiction novel, then. Do you realize how fervently most people will believe in the promises of technology, even when those promises fly in the face of common sense?”
Source: The Dream of Perpetual Motion
“They do what they do for money - that's all. I don't even know why you're listening to me. I've done commercials for both Coke and Pepsi. Truth is, I can't even taste the difference, but Pepsi paid me last, so there it is.”
“They docked at Buenos Aires. Cunégonde, Captain Candide, and the old woman went to call on the Governor, Don Fernando d'Ibaraa y Figueora y Mascarenes y Lampourdos y Souza. This grandee had a pride to match his many names. He spoke to people with the most noble disdain, sticking his nose so far in the air, speaking in such a mercilessly loud voice, adopting so high and mighty a tone, and affecting so haughty a gait, that all who greeted him were also tempted to hit him.”
Source: Candide
“They don't all need to KNOW you. When they know OF you, that's true power in business.”
“They don’t care
About the truth:
They use lies
For power
And condemn innocents
They pretend
To be good
But they are
The worst of all
We care
And we will fight
For morality”
Source: vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget
“They don't care about you... they want you to feel miserable.”
“They don't deal with any basic difference in human nature between black and white..., they only study the effects of environment on human nature. You place the white man in the ghetto, deprive him of educational advantages, arrange it so he has to struggle hard to fulfill his instinct for self-respect, give him little physical privacy and leisure time, and he would after a time assume the same characteristics you attach to the Negro. These characteristics don't spring from whiteness or blackness, but from a man's conditioning.”
“They don't fit you?" V asked his roommate.
"Not the point. No offense, but these are wicked Village People." Butch held his heavy arms out and turned in a circle, his bare chest catching the light. "I mean, come on."
"They're for fighting, not fashion."
"So are kilts, but you don't see me rocking the tartan."
"And thank God for that. You're too bowlegged to pull that shit off."
Butch assumed a bored expression. "You can bite me.”
Source: Lover Unbound
“They don't fit you?" V asked his roommate.
"Not the point. No offense, but these are wicked Village People." Butch held his heavy arms out and turned in a circle, his bare chest catching the light. "I mean, come on."
"They're for fighting, not fashion."
"So are kilts, but you don't see me rocking the tartan."
"And thank God for that. You're too bowlegged to pull that shit off."
Butch assumed a bored expression. "You can bite me.”
I wish, V thought.
Butch and Vishous”
Source: Lover Unbound
“They don't give gold bracelets for regrets.”
Source: The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
“They don’t give Olympic medals out for talking a good game.”
Source: The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
“They don’t go around talkin’ about it to everybody. People’d think they’re nuts. But you’re only a nut if you’re wrong.”
Source: Working for Uncle Henry
“They don't go in for the fancy or exotic, but stick to conventional food like flightless bird embryos, minced organs in intestine skins, slices of hog flesh and burnt ground grass seeds dipped in animal fats; or, as it is known in their patois, egg, sausage, bacon and a fried slice of toast.”
Source: Mort
“They don’t hack the system anymore, they hack the people. Don’t allow yourself to be easily manipulated or influenced. Some people are paid to exploit your anger and frustration, using that to push you toward harmful actions or hatred toward others. Their goal is to mislead you and create enemies for you. Your hatred towards others is a business that is profitable to them. They want you isolated so they can easily break you.”
“They don't hate you because you are wrong. They hate you because you didn't do what they wanted you to do. In a way, their hate is better than their liking.”
“They don’t have classes on bravery in middle school. If they did I’d have signed up. It would have been helpful to learn how to stare down what I feared most and not blink.”
Source: What Flowers Remember
“They don't have regular time at school, you know. They have periods. All of a sudden an alarm goes off and you're supposed to drop what you're doing and rush off to a different room with a different teacher to do something completely different! How can anybody learn like that?”
Source: Schooled
“They don't have the time to take on animals with dietary restrictions and missing legs."
"Do you think I don't know that? That's precisely why they're all here with me. No one else would take them. Angus, for example." She moved toward the Highland steer. "Some foolish merchant traveled to Scotland on holiday and decided to bring his wife a pet calf from the Highlands. Never stopped to think about the fact that he would grow."
"Surely people aren't that stupid."
"Oh, it happens all the time. But usually they make that mistake with pups or ponies. Not cattle." She shook her head. "They dehorned him in the worst, most painful way. When he came to me, the poor dear's wounds were infected. Infested, too. He could have perished from the fly-strike alone. That man was stupid, indeed. The only thing he got right was his choice of calf. Angus is exceedingly adorable."
Adorable?
Gabe eyed the beast. The animal stood as tall as Gabe's shoulder, and it smelled... the way cattle smell. Shaggy red fur covered its eyes like a blindfold, and its black, spongy nose glistened.”
Source: The Wallflower Wager
“They don't have to know the real you for you to keep being that amazing you! Don't let someone's negative spirit disrupt or corrupt yours. Be you for...you. God is the one that you want to see who you really are.”
Source: In Our House: Perception vs Reality
“They don’t just have to face rejection, they’ve to live with that all their life. Be careful how you turn down their hearts.”
“They don’t know I only speak in runaway train stations
and everybody is always a few minutes too late to the platform.
No one has ever gotten the chance to get too close
because it is never romantic to fuck the girl who makes love to her own sadness every single night.”
“THEY DON'T KNOW ME SON!”
“They don't know the meaning of danger or fear or pain. It's only their pride that can be truly hurt.”
Source: Red Queen
“They don't know those places in me. Only he does. Only he has seen the darkness inside of me and turns into love and light.”
Source: The Lonely
“They don't know what a stand up guy you are."
"Even more so, now that I have four legs, right?”
Source: Down in the Valley
“They don't know what poor is. They don't know that poverty is a sharp knife carving away at you. They don't know what it does to the body. To a mind.”
Source: The Sun Is Also a Star
“They don't look at me or talk to me. I don't get it. I'm the one who just came out to them. I'm the one who is broken up inside. Why am I not the one being comforted? Why is no one telling me it's okay?”
Source: Like a Love Story
“They don’t make love like this nowadays. Oh, I don’t mean having sex. I mean playing in the limitless.”
“They don't make mistakes. Our authorities, as far as I am aware - and I know only the lowest ranks - don't actually look for guilt in the population, but are, as the law says, drawn towards guilt and must send us guards out. That's the law. Where would there be a mistake? 'I don't know this law', said K. 'That's your problem,' said the guard. 'It probably only exists in your minds', said K.”
Source: The Trial
“They don't make morgues with windows. In fact, if the geography allows for it, they hardly ever make morgues above the ground. I guess it's partly because it must be eisier to refrigerate a bunch of coffin-sized chambers in a room insulated by the earth. But that can't be all there is to it. Under the earth means a lot more than relative altitude. It's where dead things fit. Graves are under the earth. So are Hell, Gehenna, Hades, and a dozen other reported afterlives.
Maybe it says somthing about people. Maybe for us, under the earth is a subtle and profound statement. Maybe ground level provides us with a kind of symbolic boundary marker, an artificial construct that helps us remember that we are alive. Mabye it helps us push death's shadow back from our lives.
I live in a basement apartment and like it. What does that say about me?
Probably that I overanalyze things.”
Source: Death Masks
“They don't make them," I told her. "Because people who can afford Lamborghinis aren't sitting around watching television.”
Source: Nightfall
“They don’t mention earthquakes in that one Mamas & Papas song and it’s a bummer cuz it’s the best part about living in california.”
“They don’t need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they’re trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“They don't play the trombone like the tuba anymore. I blame it on canned tunafish.”
Source: There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't
“They don't read, and they can't write to save their lives. They've never heard of most of the presidents of the United States, they think America won the war in Vietnam, they think Prohibition was a law that made it illegal to own slaves.
That was Cole's father, fuming about his students. Cole suspects at least some of this could also be said about Tracy.
And it's not just what they don't know, it's what they don't want to know.
Tracy is what his father would call intellectually lazy.”
Source: Salvation City
“They don’t really miss you. They miss using you, and the things you did for them. Remember, some people will love you as much as they can use you. Smarten up and let go!”
“They don’t really want to learn here. Or I think they do, but they have no time to learn what’s being taught. They’re busy trying to learn themselves. That’s probably why they didn’t talk to me. They have their own complicated landscapes, and I don’t fit.”
Source: The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
“They don't remember me even when i'm here, i don't think they'll do when i'm gone”
“They don't see the children," she said. "Not for who they are, only for what they are capable of."
"They should be given a chance as all children should.”
Source: The House in the Cerulean Sea
“They don't see your kindness because they are unkind.”
“They don't sell friends in stores....”
Source: Sincerely, Carter
“They don't settle somewhere and say, 'this is what we dreamed of'. No, they are all along with each other through their primes and crests.”
“They don't take the Bible as a general thing, sailors don't; though I will say that I never saw the man at sea who didn't give it the credit of being an uncommon good yarn.
("Kentucky's Ghost")”
Source: Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror
“They don’t talk about these things at school. They just assume you know.”
Source: The Capital of the Superficial
“They don’t teach kidnapping at Eton, dad”
Source: Lipstick & Bolsheviks