T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands”
Source: The Secret Lives of People in Love
“They head the list of bad to bet on: But I insist they're worse to get on”
“They headed across the meadow, passing groups of students eating lunch. A mottled bird that looked like a cross between a chicken and a pheasant burst from the undergrowth. Ash watched it flutter into the trees, then land in the bushes.
“What in the world…?”
Vale followed his gaze to where the bird waddled through the undergrowth. “It’s a spruce grouse.”
Ash stared into the trees. A few steps away from the meadow, the light dropped by half. “What did you call it again?”
“Spruce grouse is the official name, though they’re sometimes called prairie chickens or fool hens.”
Ash chuckled. “Fool hens, huh?”
“Yeah. People think they’re kind of dumb—the way they let other animals get close to them. They’re pretty mellow.”
Ash watched it as it faded back into the autumn foliage, the plumage a match to the brown and orange leaves. “How do you know all this stuff?”
“I don’t know,” she said. “I read things, I guess.”
“I know that, but where’d you learn the stuff about birds?”
“I’ve got a couple books on wildlife. Books on the woods, and on camping, and survival, and…” Vale shrugged. “I just read a lot of stuff. Okay?”
Ash grinned. “Pretty cool.”
“They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.”
“They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing cause that's a way of understanding life.”
“They hear you own up, and they learn to own up.”
“They heard a lullaby every time a part of her died in Silence.”
“They heard loud, incoherent, animalistic, screaming and knew what it meant. The infected were near.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them and they rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed in that dark electric, like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing.”
Source: All the Pretty Horses
“They heard the click of the mail slot and flop of letters on the doormat. "Get the mail, Dudley," said Uncle Vernon from behind his paper. "Make Harry get it." "Get the mail, Harry." "Make Dudley get it." "Poke him with your Smelting stick, Dudley.”
“They held each other and wept as the night closed its fist around their tiny shelter, and the world below them seethed with killers both living and dead.”
Source: Rot and Ruin
“They held each other close and turned their backs upon the end.
The hills that split asunder and the black that ate the skies;
The flames that shot so high and hot that even dragons burned;
Would never be the final sights that fell upon their eyes.
A fly upon a wall, the waves the sea wind whipped and churned —
The city of a thousand years, and all that men had learned;
The Doom consumed it all alike, and neither of them turned"
―Tyrion Lannister and Jorah Mormont, quoting a poem about the Doom”
Source: A Game of Thrones
“They held each other tight and cried, while a dozen infected took turns tearing into their warm flesh.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm would stay aboveground forever. At first, as they stood there, their hands were clenched together. They relaxed slowly until during the walk back home their fingers were laced in as gentle a clasp as that of any two young girlfriends trotting up the road on a summer day wondering what happened to butterflies in the winter.”
Source: Sula
“They held me and told me everything would be fine, that sadness would rise from our bones and evaporate in sunlight the way morning fog burned off the river in summer. My mother rubbed the kites on my hands and arms and told me to think of my lungs as balloons. I just want to feel safe, I said.”
Source: Light Boxes: A Novel
“They held political discussions with us -- they explained that we were heroes, accomplishing things, on the front line. It was all military language. But what's a bec? A curie? What's a milliroentgen? We ask our commander, he can't answer that, they didn't teach it at the military academy. Milli, micro, it's all Chinese to him. "What do you need to know for? Just do what you're ordered. Here you're soldiers." Yes, soldiers -- but not convicts.”
Source: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
“They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years.”
“They helped like tourists. They smiled, took pictures, and left us in the same clothes we wore before they came.”
Source: Where The Cicada Sleeps: A Diary-Style Portrait of Girlhood, Betrayal, and the Quiet Violence of Being Misunderstood
“They” (her new husbands, Egypt and Babylon) heard of Jeremiah’s and Isaiah’s public declaration of divorce. (Jer 3:8; Is 50:1)
Yet another oblique reference to divorced Hagar. Hagar had been properly dismissed—by her husband, Abraham. Hagar, however, was better than Judah. She may have created division in Abraham’s household, but at least Hagar maintained her relationship with Jehovah.”
Source: Lamentations: how narcissistic leaders torment church and family
“They highlight that I am vulnerable. No matter how careful I am, eventually I’ll make another misstep. I am weak. I am fragile. I hate that most of all. Even if, by some miracle, I could be better than them, I will never be one of them.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“They hike almost three miles without incident, and it's amazing to watch the colors leach back into the desert after the day's blanching. There's a moment, Lydia realizes, or no, more than a moment - a span of perhaps fifteen minutes just at twilight - when the desert is the most perfect place that exists. The temperature, the light, the colors, all hang and linger at some unflawed precipice, like the cars of a roller coaster ticking ever so slowly over their apex before the crash. The light droops ever farther from the sky, and Lydia can smell the heat of the day wicking away from her skin.”
Source: American Dirt
“They hired us over the Internet, mailed us half the cash and promised the other half after we nailed the vampire." I lowered Grief until it pointed straight at Rudy's crotch. "You two wouldn't recognize the Internet if a server fell on your heads. So give it to me straight this time, Rudy, before I lose my temper and make sure Junior grows up an only child.”
Source: Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Book One of the Jaz Parks Series
“They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms” (Casanova, p.34, Vol 1 Preface).”
Source: The Complete Memoirs of Casanova (Unexpurgated Edition)
“They hit me raw, hard, real,
the words you say (and don't)
as I leave to catch my flight.
But in real life airports,
no one is chasing anyone
to ask for a longer story.
And on real life airplanes,
it is too loud for anyone
to hear anyone else cry.”
“They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.”
“They hit you with a knife, you find a gun”
Source: The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
“They hold a grudge like it was their family treasure.”
Source: Bayou Moon
“They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the ring on the grass. It is not there when they begin, but they make it by waltzing round and round. Sometimes you will find mushrooms inside the ring, and these are fairy chairs that the servants have forgotten to clear away. The chairs and the rings are the only tell-tale marks these little people leave behind them, and they would remove even these were they not so fond of dancing that they toe it till the very moment of the opening of the gates.”
“They hold up a mirror to the part of ourselves we're trying our best to conceal: that utterly defenseless, deeply tender inner part that yearns for connection and kindness- and can be so easily crushed.”
Source: The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness
“They [homeless people] are constructed ideologically to be oppressed to the level of losing their humanity. It is not by chance it is a design.”
Source: Constructed To Rot: A Critical Reflection On Homelessness
“They Hooked You with Love and Fed You Signs
to Keep You Trapped. It is’t love. It is leverage.”
Source: Twin Flame Psyop: Exposing the Manipulation Behind the Illusion of Divine Love: How the Myth of the Twin Flame Journey Was Weaponized to Hijack Awakening Souls
“They hooted and laughed all the way back to the car, teasing Milkman, egging him on to tell more about how scared he was. And he told them. Laughing too, hard, loud, and long. Really laughing, and he found himself exhilarated by simply walking the earth. Walking it like he belonged on it; like his legs were stalks, tree trunks, a part of his body that extended down down down into the rock and soil, and were comfortable there--on the earth and on the place where he walked. And he did not limp.”
Source: Song Of Solomon
“They hope for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy
Tell me when do we stop it?
Do they ask you your religion before you rent an apartment?
Is the answer burning Korans so that we can defend Islamics?”
“They hugged, tight and warm and full of the promise he’d made upon waking up.”
Source: The Kill Order
“They hunt you. It's terrible... They never think about how the person feels about what they write.”
“They hurled him inside... into the song of a thousand sweetly singing flowers... and though he tried -- desperately -- to shut out those siren notes, they seeped into his mind... into his soul -- and that fine intelligence succumbed to a killing beauty...”
Source: Superman (1939-2011) #236
“They hurled lights in his eyes to see if he could see..”
Source: Catch 22
“They hurried when they could, and dozed when they had to, hiding in tangles of bloodtwig and heartsease at the edge of the road.”
Source: Plain Kate
“They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.”
Source: The First Man
“They hurt you because they know you will forgive them no matter what!”
“They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.”
“They ignore what is deep and true to a man's heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.”
Source: Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
“They ignored her because of their headphones, a thousand people marching to fifteen hundred different drummers, effectively secluded but for a very basic instinct not to bump into one another. Those that were unplugged rushed from place to place and were never actually anywhere other than “somewhere else.”
Source: Flies to Wanton Boys
“They ignored me like I never mattered, but now I am the one they are pretending to forget.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“They imagine that their poverty is transitory, and that they only need a stroke of good luck to transform them into capitalists.
Education, they think, is the lucky number in the social lottery, and it will bring them the grand prize. They do not perceive that this ticket given them by the capitalist class is a fraud, that labor, whether manual or intellectual, has no other chance than to earn its daily pittance, that it has nothing to hope for but to be exploited, and that the more capitalism goes on developing, the more do the chances of an individual raising himself out of his class go on diminishing.”
Source: The Right To Be Lazy
“They import and they consume reality.”
Source: The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
“They' in conventional wisdom,
in much literature (like Edward Lear's limericks),
in the mouths of conservative (and faux-conservative) politicians
refers to traditional society, those of privilege,
those with power, those
in control of what is known, thought, believed...
But 'everybody else'...
knows
what's going on.”
“They indeed are fools who are satisfied with the fruits of their past effort and do not engage themselves in self-effort now.”
“They indeed had been wondrous for others while he was but wondrous for himself; which, however, was exactly the cause of his haste to renew the wonder by getting back, as he might put it, into his own presence. That had quickened his steps and checked his delay. If his visit was prompt it was because he had been separated so long from the part of himself that alone he now valued.”
Source: The Beast in the Jungle
“They inhabit a kind of heaven, economical as a memory.”
Source: Just Looking: Essays on Art