T Quotes
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“They don't tell you about the curse of travelling.
You went out there and saw the colors, tasted the wine, saw the chaos.
You expanded our minds until they couldn't fit back into these little boxes people call ‘NORMAL lives.'
Now, the local gossip feels petty. The 9-to-5 feels like a cage.
It’s the curse of the wanderer. You fit in everywhere, so you don't fit in anywhere.”
Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“They don’t tell you this part in the storybooks. They go on and on about true love, even though no one can explain what it is. They don’t tell you where your hands go when Prince Charming just wants to fool around. They don’t tell you that his red, wet, wanting mouth is the ruby fruit, nor whether it’s poison or bliss—or both. You have to nibble to find out.”
“They don't think up questions like that on the basis of what might be true; they concoct the questions on the basis of what might be sensational if it just happened to be true.”
Source: A Canticle For Leibowitz
“They don't think you're dumb. They're afraid you're smart.”
Source: A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation
“They don't understand you because they have already misunderstood you.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“They don't understand you because you use a different equation to get to the answer. An equation that they're not accustomed to. It's not you. It's them.”
“They don't value what you do for them because they never do anything for anyone.”
“They don’t want me. They’re curious why you want me. And anyway, I feel sorry for anyone that thinks they have a chance. I am hopelessly and completely in love with you.”
A pained look shadowed his face. “You know why I want you? I didn’t know I was lost until you found me. I didn’t know what alone was until the first night I spent without you in my bed. You’re the one thing I’ve got right. You’re what I’ve been waiting for, Pigeon.”
Source: Beautiful Disaster
“They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money.”
“They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard thirty years ago. They want people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all the increasingly shitty jobs with the less pay, reduced benefits, the end of overtime—and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you come to collect it. And now they’re coming for your Social Security. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal Wall Street friends. And you know what? They’ll get it! They’ll get it all. They count on the fact that Americans will remain willfully ignorant.”
The prophetic Mr. George Carlin
“It’s just a ride. We can change it any time we want. It’s just a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money—a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here’s what we can do to make this world a better ride. Take all the money we spend on weapons every year and use it to feed and clothe the poor of the world. There will be enough to help every person in the world, not one left out—and we can explore space, both inner and outer, together, in peace.”
Bill Hicks
“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really taste food when you eat, and when you sleep to really sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
William Saroyan”
“They don't want to be men, only to be allowed to have a say. God wouldn't have given us feet if He didn't want us to walk. By the same token, why give us a brain if He didn't want us to have thoughts?”
Source: The Downstairs Girl
“They don't want to see me lose my home. They want me to come to my senses before it's too late. I need a better way to cope with my feelings of loss and guilt. I need bereavement therapy. Here are some names. I should think about medication. Here's what worked for them. There are books. There are websites. There are support groups. Healing won't come from withdrawing into a fantasy world, isolating myself, spending all my time with a dog. There is such a thing as pathological grief. There is the magical thinking of pathological grief, which is a kind of dementia. Which in their collective opinion is what I have.”
Source: The Friend
“They don't win by bringing you down. They win when you don't stand up again.”
“They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.”
“They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.”
“They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental strain on your spirit. It dumbs you down about 25 to 30 IQ points. You start to hallucinate in the heat inside the suit after 20-30 minutes. So you try not to stay in it too dang long. So the preparation for that - it's either you have it, or you do not.”
“They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.”
“They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.”
“They don't call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing.”
Source: I Can't Believe I Said That!: An Autobiography
“They don't consider nicotine as a drug. Why don't they put it together with all the other drugs?”
“They don't cut the greens here at Augusta. they use bikini wax.”
“They don't encourage quality today. When I was coming along, Columbia Records would sit with you and assume it would take two or three albums to get the act where it needed to be. Then the company would structure its promotion based on one, two or three years. They encouraged quality and innovation - that's why groups like the Beatles would use sitars, string orchestras and so forth.”
“They don't find peace. It's pure bullshit. When something unspeakable happens, or when you do something unspeakable, it changes you. It takes you apart and reassembles you. You are a Frankenstein of circumstance, and the parts never fit back quite right and the life you live is a stolen one. You don't deserve to walk among the living, and you know it.”
Source: In the Blood: Chilling grip-lit with a breathtaking twist you won't see coming
“They don't get along with me, but I get along with other people.”
“They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em.”
“They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty.”
Source: Her Royal Spyness
“They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway.”
Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
“They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.”
“They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences.”
Source: Michael Crichton's Jurassic World
“They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.”
“They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.”
“They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.”
Source: Deathwish
“They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.”
“They don't know I'm staring, what does it matter if I keep on doing it?”
“They don't know it, but they are doing it.”
“They don't know that I'm already asking for the moon.”
“They don't know we're not allowed to use magic at home. I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer.”
“They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea but who isn't really here.”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“They don't know who I was or that I played baseball.”
“They don't know you're secretly a badass?”
Source: Fall of Night: The Morganville Vampires
“They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning.”
“They don't like anyone who isn't Korean, and they don't like each other all that much, either. They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards, 'the Irish of Asia'.”
Source: Holidays in Hell
“They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.”
Source: Picture Perfect
“They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.”
“They don't live here. They live in Heaven.' Where's that?' I don't know,' I said. 'Enos says it's right here, on this side of the wall, but I never saw an angel over here. Kuba says it's in Russia. Olek says Washington America.' What's Washington America?' Enos says it's a place with no wall and no lice and lots of potatoes.”
Source: Milkweed
“They don't make coats for this kind of cold”
“They don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don't want any mass-marketed game-playing device or Windows appliance near my desk or on my network. This is my workbench, dammit, it's not a pretty box to impress people with graphics and sounds. When I work at this system up to 12 hours a day, I'm profoundly uninterested in what user interface a novice user would prefer.”
“They don't make red noses to fit black people. I have a wide nose like a Volkswagen and I have never had a red nose that fitted me.”
“They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.”
“They don't matter. I thought I had to prove something, and I did, to myself. There's nothing left for me to prove. I can move on with my life.”
Source: Kill the messenger