T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.”
“They found out about him in July and stayed angry all through August. They tried to kill him in September. It was way too soon. They weren't ready. The attempt was a failure. It could have been a disaster, but it was actually a miracle. Because nobody noticed.”
Source: Echo Burning: A Jack Reacher Novel
“They found out that the other immigration detainees had been incarcerated for days, weeks, and sometimes months. This discovery was not comforting.”
Source: How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
“They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned.”
Source: The Complete Persepolis
“They found Seth Hubbard in the general area where he had promised to be, though not exactly in the condition expected. He was at the end of a rope, six feet off the ground and twisting slightly in the wind.”
Source: Sycamore Row
“They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us. "My Sookie hid a corpse?" "I don't think you can be too sure about that possessive pronoun." "Where did you learn that term, Northman?" "I took 'English as a Second Language' at a community college in the seventies.”
Source: Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set
“They found themselves listening to the silence, fascinated by it. There did not even seem to be the faint, high hum that comes in utter stillness, the sound of nerve endings idling in neutral. There was only a great dead soundlessness and the beat of blood in their own ears.
And yet they both knew, of course. They were not alone.”
Source: ’Salem’s Lot
“They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.”
Source: Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
“They fuck you up, your mum and dad', and if you're planning on writing that's probably a good thing. But if you are planning on writing and they haven't fucked you up, well, you've got nothing to go on, so then they've fucked you up good and proper.”
“They fuck you up, your mum and dad? No, that wasn't it at all. Well, they did do that, perhaps, but they also allowed you to become the person, and the writer, that you had it in you to be.”
Source: Joseph Anton: A Memoir
“They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening but what they were made not to see was the sleeping African Lion until I was hungry.”
“They gathered in the center of the Court as evening deepened the gloom of the forest. Tables covered with Fae delicacies rose from the moss itself and parted the waters of the brook. Delphine had not imagined that temptation could wield such strength. There was no hunger, only desire; she had not felt hunger, or thirst, or any other mundane discomfort since she crossed through the linden. But the fruits and breads and crystalline ices and even those things far stranger--- clouds encapsulated by thin leaves, braided blossoms that shimmered with uncanny glaze, lacework wafers like the finest marzipan--- all of it beckoned her, begged her to taste, to try. Their scents were faint but heady, rosewater and citrus and pungent herbs and the air after the rain. They promised more--- savor, yes, but deeper, thicker draughts of pleasure, joy, knowledge.”
Source: The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill
“They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.”
“They gave each other a smile with a future in it.”
“They gave high fives to all the players who say like the most obvious textbook answers in the world. It's like after each game, you already know what they're going to say. If they lost: "Ahh ... Tough loss." It's like, come on, how do you guys fall for that? And if they something that they really feel, everyone goes crazy. Like "Oohh! He's spazzing out!" Now he gotta say sorry for saying something he really felt. It's like, Oh lord.”
“They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.”
“They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.”
“They gave me eyes. All of you are beautiful; you shine like stars. But I must go away with them.”
“They gave me killer pills that knocked me on my ass for a few hours at least so I wouldn’t have to hear the godawful screaming. I’m exhausted and my blood boils and there’s nothing I can do. There was another life that seems so long ago and I try to reconstruct images, events, people, all just dreams tethered to the knife in my soul. This is my cross, my dagger, my napalm, my dance of the dead…”
Source: Cells
“They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.”
“They gave me the chaps and hat and everything. I looked like a real cowboy. I walked around the rodeo and thought, I am a real cowboy and thought everyone thought I was a real cowboy.”
“They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?”
“They gave the world some of its finest heroes. Saving them's the least we can do.”
Source: The Con Job
“They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.”
Source: Winter's Tale
“They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.”
Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
“They get so busy, Victor Hernandez starts to help out as a sous chef, chopping up bowls of onions and garlic and peppers, making salads and mixing marinades. He brings in a bagful of chili peppers one day, some long and narrow and shriveled as old fingers, some petite and glossy as young fingers. He roasts them under the broiler and in a dry skillet, then slides off the charred outer skins. And Sirine uses slices of the soft inner hearts puréed into the baba ghannuj and marinades for the kabobs.
"They say that pepper is good for love," Victor tells her, then raises his eyebrows at Mireille, who turns pink. "It brings heat to the blood.”
Source: Crescent
“They get so many calls on the day of their result,
whereas not even 10% relatives call them up when it’s their birthday.”
Source: A Girl That Had to be Strong
“They get to the quarter-finals, Bill, I'll show up with a dress on”
“They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“They get what they want. and in return they only give you your own shackles,”
Source: Circe
“They get you when you're young. When you are a kid, you are conditioned. You are taught language, customs, and right and wrong. You are filled with fears. This conditioning interferes with your psychic perception.”
“They giggled at my inquiries, shaking their heads, grabbing hold of my hands and whirling me ‘round in their midst. My voice simply blew away from me.”
Source: Burying the Shadow
“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.”
“They give me a shot and a handful of pills to swallow. I stare at the thin red wall of my inner eyelid and listen to my skin and I can't be sure how the medication is affecting me. I can't remember how I'm supposed to feel. I can't remember my name. I have never seen my face.”
“They give me strength, they give me confidence, they give me hope, and they make me believe that tomorrow is like, going to be even better.
-Grateful Dead”
“They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“They give unconditional love and undying loyalty in return for regular meals and an occasional pat on the head.”
Source: Mondo Canine
“They give us access to another world, they give us access to dreams. It's our way of living in a different realm for a short period of time - and how beautiful is that?”
“They give us more freedom and more rights, but take away our choices or preferences. You can't say this or you can't do that, but you are free and have rights to do whatever you want, They say. They are putting red tapes everywhere ,to channel and controlling us on what to believe, what to think, what to say and on what to do. They want us to think we are , while we are not.”
“They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.”
“They glided down the magnificent staircase, the builders' cacophony increasingly audible as they descended, while the open windows at each level brought in raucous shouts from the square, too. Rabble on one side, rubble on the other”
Source: The Rome Affair
“They glided out of the heat-haze on their camels like specters. There were twenty of them, and they were Tuareg. Their faces were hidden by black veils that left only slits for the eyes, and they wore purple robes that fluttered in the desert wind. They carried swords, muskets and seven-foot iron spears, and wore stilettos in sheaths on their left forearms. They were an impressive, sinister sight.”
Source: Death in the Sahara: The Lords of the Desert and the Timbuktu Railway Expedition Massacre
“They go along without noticing the darkness, mostly. But you see that for what it is, know full well it's all around us, and still go on.”
“they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God chooseth and not another, contrary to all scriptures.”
Source: An Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue: The Supper of the Lord After the True Meaning of John VI. and 1 Cor. XI. And Wm. Tracy's Testament Expounded
“They go forth [into the world] with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - not a cold one. The difference is important.”
“They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.”
“They go out, they drink a lot of beer and they eat dead pigs, and then they go home and have sex with strangers afterwards.”
Source: The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
“They go the long way but we take the short cut Give me the blonde hair, long weave, short cut”
“They go to Paris to learn how to make bombs and they come back having learned only how to write poetry, which they think is more explosive.”
Source: Solo
“They go'n try to stop you, they go'n try. Notice how I said true. We ain't never stopping.”