T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“They rolled past the prison and, without a word, James shifted on the narrow seat. He filled the space between them and this time he pushed his spine into Mungo's cavity. Each bony vertebra was a knuckle that pressed into the places that hurt the worst. Mungo exhaled into the sandy hair. His arms disobeyed him as they wrapped around James's waist. He laid his face against the Shetland wool and inhaled the grease of the lanolin and the musk from his armpits. James leaned back into him as hard as Mungo was pressing forward.”
“They rolled up the maps of their bodies until they were two continents of interlocking roads and rivers and dreams, and she thought, ‘This is how I will learn to live again’.”
Source: Fans of the Impossible Life
“They (Romans) were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force - nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind - as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The conquest of the earth which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea - something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to...”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“They rouse themselves mentally only long enough to utter an "I wish," and stop there, and wait, as if the rest were up to some unknown power.”
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness
“They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.”
“They run off eckeltricity, do they?" he said knowledgeably. "Ah yes, I can see the plugs. I collect plugs," he added to Uncle Vernon. "And batteries. Got a large collection of batteries.”
“They run, they touch, they learn, they play,
They listen, they work hard at growing all day.”
Source: Other Kids Are Kids Almost Just Like You
“They rushed in like sickle cells forced through a vein.”
“They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front.”
“They’s men and mens. Some good. Some bad. Some breathing death. Some breathing life.”
Source: Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
“They sacrifice innocents, ethical and good people with unfairness, injustice and torture to save guilty, unethical and bad people just because the latter pretend and serve majority thinking they secure the greater good but the only thing they achieve is transforming the greater good into greater evil.”
“They safely cured the world of sadness, wiser the Pfizer for it?”
“They said 'if you have a 3D movie, we'll buy it' because they want it. For maybe two weeks I really thought of a silent, black and white 3D movie and I thought it could be great. I imagined it as a very special image, a very new image, but fortunately, I didn't have to do it.”
“They said [on a day show], oh, you can't do a Chinese accent. That's - and I said, I'm not doing a Chinese accent. I'm doing my friend's accent. And they said, yeah, you can't do that. And I said, OK, but can I do a Russian accent? And they said, yeah, yeah, of course, you can do that. I said, and a British accent? They said, yeah, go ahead. And I couldn't understand.”
“They said a child had died in the attic. Her clothes had been discovered in the wall.
I wanted to go up there, and to lie down near the wall, and be alone.
They'd seen her ghost now and then, the child. But none of these vampires could see spirits, really, at least not the way that I could see them. No matter. It wasn't the company of the child I wanted. It was to be in that place.”
“They said a lot of things to each other that night, but nothing that involved words.”
“They said all the world was a stage, and Lydia had never been very convinced of that. But a small town was most definitely a stage when drama was going on.”
Source: Tough Luck Hero
“They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging.”
“They said, 'Come to tea and let us comfort you.' But it is no good. One must be crucified on one's own private cross. It is a strange fact that a terrible pain in the heart can be interrupted by a little pain in the fourth toe of the right foot. I know that V. will not come across the garden from the lodge, & yet I look in that direction for her. I know that she is drowned & yet I listen for her to come in at the door. I know that it is the last page & yet I turn it over. There is no limit to one's stupidity and selfishness.”
“They said daydreaming was against the law, but some of us escaped, slipping out windows and over cyclone fences, some of us flying away with heads like balloons. We taught our dogs to love the flavor of homework and became expert forgers of our parentsâ signatures. We knew they were teaching us how to die but some of us said no in our stealthy and stubborn ways.”
Source: A Handbook for Writers: New & Selected Prose Poems
“They said do what you want, because if we don't like it no one will hear it.”
“They said... "Don't think in the beginning of your day...”
Source: How to Talk to Anyone
“They said follow your heart, so I ended up in the morgue.”
“They said God was on high and he controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan. Well, if God controls the world, he controls Satan. For me, religion was full of misstatements and reaches of logic that I just couldn't agree with.”
“They said growing up was watching your breasts grow, your waist widen and hairs sprout on your erogenous ones. You became aware of the warmness that spread in circles in your stomach when that fine boy smiled at you. But that was not growing to me. Growing up was watching Papa drift away from us, and Mama grow drastically older from frying Akara balls just to cater for our home.”
Source: Eyes of a Goddess
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“They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.”
Source: Teacher Man
“They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time.”
“They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.”
“They said I have to." "Have to what?" "Break you." ... "I don't believe you wanted to hurt me." I said. "And I don't believe you would have, even if Monroe hadn't---" ... "I wouldn't have." Ren whispered.”
Source: Bloodrose
“They said I ignored the drug problem. Well, I gave speeches on drugs, I wrote books on drugs. I did darn near everything on drugs!”
“They said I rap like a robot, so call me rapbot.”
“They said I was a valued customer. Now they send me hate mail.”
“They said I was hope. . .I couldn't be what I thought they'd wanted me to be. . .but hope isn't denying who you are or what you've been through; what you lost. Hope is knowing what you carry with you. How heavy is the load. How easy it'd be to stay still, to do nothing. To yield to the weight and fall to the mud. And yet despite that burden, or maybe because of it, you're still running.”
Source: Heroes in Crisis
“They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.”
“They said I would never live. I lived. They said I would never think. I think. They said I would never walk. I walked. They said I would never dance, but I never danced anyway.”
“They said I would never remember how strong and powerful I am until someone reminded me," said Hanuman. "Sometimes I wonder if it is a curse that we are all under at some point or another.”
Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time
“They said I would never write this book. Well, f**k ’em – ’cos here it is. All I have to do now is remember something... Bollocks. I can’t remember anything.”
“They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.”
“They said it was a mystery until someone acquired the necessary knowledge and experience to make it an open book. They said it was impossible until someone defied the odds and did it. Our world is filled with many imitators and few initiators because we listen more to others than to the gentle inner voice urging us to believe the impossible and do the unthinkable. Ultimately, breaking the glass ceiling is about who you are listening to.”
“They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.”
“They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.”
“They said, “let me tell you a story, a true story, a story about good and evil, … a story that lives inside of you.”
Source: The War in Heaven
“They said love is fleeting, so we hung on to it through thick and thin.
They said marriage is about compromise, so we made it about equality.
They said jobs exist just to pay bills, so we made up one we enjoyed.
They said you need to settle for a mediocre life, so we made it about chasing the extraordinary.”
Source: Bruised Passports: Travelling the World as Digital Nomads
“They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.”
Source: One Good Turn: (Jackson Brodie)
“They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.”
“They said my solution was foreign because I lived on another planet. It required honesty. It required communication. It required kindness. It required integrity. It required compassion. It required empathy. It required a deep understanding of what it meant to be humane. It required courage to be something above the others. It required proving your love of God.”
“They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.”
Source: Dead Aim
“They said, Now we are capitalists! but all Ulrich could see was criminality to a principle.”
Source: Solo
“They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.”