T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“They scream, they cry, they love, they support, they defend, they listen. My fans are everything.”
“They scribble on notepads,
the sound of their pens
scratching the judgemental air.”
Source: Cinnamon Rain
“They scribbled observations in notebooks.”
Source: The Startup of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
“They seal the subway change-booth guy up inside this thing with bullet-proof glass, closed in on all sides, it's like some kind of Houdini torture tank of doom. How do you breathe in there? It looks like if you put your hand over the change slot, you could suffocate him in thirty seconds.”
“They sealed this promise by hooking pinkies, the way they used to, long ago, when promises didn't hurt as much.”
Source: Blue Diary
“They secretly scoff as you slip,
losing your dignity and integrity,
and again as you stumble,
you drop your degrees and pedigree!”
Source: Lost in a Quatrain
“They see a work ethic in both of us. But, they also see that my husband is more in control of his future, and I am more reliant on other sources for my career.”
“They see change as dangerous and will exile anyone who asks for it. This is a perverted idea of family loyalty.”
Source: Educated
“They see her differently now, as somebody. And isn't that what everyone wants? To be seen?”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“They see Hermione as someone who is not vulnerable, but I see her as someone who does have quite a lot of vulnerability in her personality.”
“They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s a metaphor.”
“They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano.”
“They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.”
“They see me rollin’, they hatin’”
“They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.”
Source: Georges Seurat: figure in space
“They see that giving birth to a man is hope, and giving birth to a woman is a disappointment, although every man's dream is a woman and every woman's disappointment is a man.”
“They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.”
Source: Leap Before You Look: 72 Shortcuts for Getting Out of Your Mind and Into the Moment
“They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.”
“They seek for themselves private retiring places, as country villages, the sea-shore, mountains; yea thou thyself art wont to long much after such places. But all this thou must know proceeds from simplicity in the highest degree. At what time soever thou wilt, it is in thy power to retire into thyself, and to be at rest, and free from all businesses. A man cannot any whither retire better than to his own soul; he especially who is beforehand provided of such things within, which whensoever he doth withdraw himself to look in, may presently afford unto him perfect ease and tranquillity.... free from all confusion and tumultuousness. Afford then thyself this retiring continually, and thereby refresh and renew thyself. Let these precepts be brief and fundamental, which as soon as thou dost call them to mind, may suffice thee to purge thy soul throughly, and to send thee away well pleased with those things whatsoever they be, which now again after this short withdrawing of thy soul into herself thou dost return unto.”
Source: Meditations
“They seek him here, they seek him there
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in heaven or is he in hell?
That demned elusive Pimpernel”
Source: The Scarlet Pimpernel
“They seem easy to write, but that’s the illusion of all good advice. Common sense and truth should feel authorless, write by time itself.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“They seem like a different race to me and I make sure never to get into disagreements with them, because any puny thing I say gets dashed on the rocks of their robust, shouty certainty.”
Source: Anybody Out There?
“They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.”
“They seem nice, though, your sisters, really,' Porcelain remarked.
'Ha!' I said. 'Shows what little you know! I hate them!'
'Hate them? I should have thought you'd love them.'
'Of course I love them,' I said.... 'That's why I'm so good at hating them.”
Source: A Red Herring Without Mustard
“They seem to be getting it together. How much damage will the picture of people spending four or five days on rooftops do That depends on how well it goes from here on out.”
“They seem to be in total, if not complete control”
“They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.”
“They seemed blanker
than when first they left, as if Heaven were a clinic,
and they were cured.”
Source: Heaven
“They seemed happy and at peace. I knew the feeling for the first time.”
“They seemed like a team. And I think it is fair to say that Roosevelt was the consummate politician and that Eleanor was the socially conscious activist. It gave them a nice combination of yang and yin, which they took advantage of. And I think it worked very well for them politically.”
“They seemed more like machines than humans, and, let’s face it, they are a civilian’s army. An army whose soldiers dressed in costumes and walked and talked like robots, with guns strapped to their waist belts, always looking for an enemy.”
“They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative; they must bend tiny golden tentacles from his imagination to hers, that would take the place of the great, deep love that was never so near, yet never so much of a dream.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd climbed.”
Source: Graceling
“They seemed so united that I loved them as one person." Lee wrote of his son and daughter-in-law on his daughter-in-law's death.”
“They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“They seemed to be losing heart with every howl of the storm, and fearing that they might fail me now that I was in the midst of so grand a congregation of glaciers, which possibly I might not see again, I made haste to reassure them, telling them that for ten years I had wandered alone among mountains and storms, and that good luck always followed me; that with me, therefore, they need fear nothing; that the storm would soon cease, and the sun would shine; and that Heaven cared for us, and guided us all the time, whether we knew it or not: but that only brave men had a right to look for Heaven's care, therefore all childish fear must be put away.”
Source: Discovery of Glacier Bay
“They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons and themselves.”
“They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.”
“They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods”
Source: Ethan Frome - Literary Touchstone
“They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Galileo Galilei (Illustrated)
“They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fiery cone of scorn that had burned for ages in the hollows of their minds― cooled ―and spilled over lips of outrage, consuming whatever was in its path.”
“They seemed to move in a paradise of their own, regardless of those around them, thoughtless of the morrow, forgetful of yesterday, infinitely happy in the present hour.”
Source: The little woman in black 1886 [Leather Bound]
“They seemed to skitter past her like living creatures. Their movements were purposeful, organic, just the slightest bit unsteady. It was as if instead of rubber tires, each wheel comprised thousands of tiny insectoid limbs, all black and chitinous with cruel hooked claws for feet.”
Source: Dreck
“They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their next look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.”
Source: The Dancer from the Dance: A Novel
“They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.”
“They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.”
Source: The Heretic's Apprentice
“They sell pot named after me in the dispensaries. And I'm not even a pot guy. I was so honored.”
“They sell the family parrot to town gossips.”
“They sell us the President the same way they sell us our clothes and cars.”
“They send a person who can never stay," she whispered. "Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a little while. They send me a hero I can't help ... just the sort of person I can't help falling in love with." ... As I sailed into the lake I realized the Fates really were cruel. They sent Calypso someone she couldn't help but love. But it worked both ways. For the rest of my life I would be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if.”