T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“They shot the ball well early. What comes out of the microwave hot doesn't always stay hot. I know, because I eat bagels in the morning.”
“They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro.”
“They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings
“They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep.”
Source: Two Boys Kissing
“They should be shot. (on the Backstreet Boys)”
“They should bring back hanging,' the gloomy man at the counter said, indicating the rolling news on the TV screen behind him.
'Well,' Reggie demurred. She didn't agree with hanging, she much preferred the idea of criminals roasting in the fires of hell twenty-four hours a day. Did they have day and night in hell? Did they damp down the fires in the evening and stoke them up again in the morning?”
Source: Death at the Sign of the Rook
“They should call fishing what it really is... tricking and killing!”
“They should fear me, she thought. They should look in my eyes and know that I'm a devil too.”
Source: House of Ash
“They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one packet, maybe I share that packet with somebody who has not got even one cigarette, and that's the beginning of love, to give until it hurts.”
“They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.”
“They should have come out of the dugout on tippy-toes, holding hands and singing.”
“They should have focused more on me.”
“They should have included a picture of your smile in the space probe as a warning.”
“They should have warned you that little princesses grow up to be red rocks and raging seas, fire dragons and warrior queens.”
Source: Vine: Book of Poetry
“They should install elevators in this place. What if they turned a handicapped person into a vampire? Talk about your discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen.”
Source: Boys that Bite
“they should invent a car that stays cool inside when it is parked”
Source: The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
“They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.”
“They should know my difference, they should sense my unfathomable fucking depths.”
Source: Severance
“They should know that just because things get difficult, it's no reason to believe God is on vacation.”
Source: 1001 Things Every Teen Should Know Before They Leave Home:
“they should let some people into the library by prescription only”
Source: Choke
“They should love you, just as you are. Parents should love their kids, right?"
"You'd think so.”
Source: Spencer Cohen, Book Three
“They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things people say, but I'd look like a dork in them." -Corinna”
Source: If Only
“They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!”
“They should move 1st base back a foot to avoid all those close plays”
“They should not clench their fists,
it’s my longing that’s drawing me near to them;
they should not stand there full of rage,
my longing is timidly drawing near to them;
they should not be ready to pounce like vicious dogs,
as if they wanted to tear my longing to shreds;
they should not threaten with broad sleeves,
that pains my longing.
Why have they suddenly changed?
As great and deep is my longing.
No matter how difficult, no matter how menacing:
I must reach them and I’m already there.”
Source: Oppressive Light: Selected Poems by Robert Walser
“They should own who can administer, not they who hoard and conceal; not they who, the greater proprietors they are, are only the greater beggars, but they whose work carves out work for more, opens a path for all. For he is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give all access to the masterpieces of art and nature is the problem of civilization.”
Source: The Conduct of Life
“They should put expiration dates on clothing so we men will know when they go out of style.”
“They should put their clothes on if they could find them which might be difficult in the darkness.
He decided that could wait until dawn.”
Source: His Captive Bride
“They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.”
“They should remember it everyday, when they look into their smiling faces, and be thankful that their bones are not scattered in a Cretan dungeon."
"Oh, of course they should", I hastened to agree. "But you know what people are like..."
His brows few together, confused. "What do you mean?"
"Well, they forget what could have been and focus only on the irritations of today.”
Source: Ariadne
“They should rule who are able to rule best.”
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“They should set a very clear priority for the government. There is such a large penumbra of issues. The party needs to come to grips with the reality that it has to be coherent politically.”
“They should tell you, right when you get here, that that part of wishing is over. What we’ve done, no one will love us. Not in a normal way.”
Source: Girl in Pieces
“They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.”
“They should've built a city on rock and roll.”
Source: Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)
“They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again.”
“They shouldn't call anything a boot camp unless you're going off to war. Standup boot camp has been a fantastic thing, for the people putting it on. They keep you out in the woods and won't let you come back until you're funny. Lenny Bruce came up with his Religions Inc. bit on a day hike.”
“They shouldn't call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more than a little worried it had only just begun.”
“They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .”
Source: The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition
“They shoved pills into my hands to seal away the symptoms, never once caring about unearthing the real cause rotting me from the inside out. As long as I was quiet, manageable, functional, they didn’t give a damn. Fuck them. Fuck every single one of them for thinking I was just another file to be processed and silenced with chemicals. They didn’t want healing. They wanted obedience.”
Source: Where the Dark Knelt
“They show you so much love when you’re in pain, but soon as you begin to show joy; everything changes. -MillYentei⋆”
“They showed each other that it was alright for their hearts to come out and play; that it was alright to feel close to someone; that love didn't always end in heartbreak.”
“They showed me." She speaks in awe. "All is God. All. The good, the bad, we have misunderstood. There is nothing else. Nothing exists but is God." She pauses. "Father," she whispers, "my me is God.”
Source: Canticle
“they shower water cannons
but they do not know
you’re a seed buried in the soil
ready to geminate and penetrate
your head out in this turmoil.”
Source: Foxfire - A book of poems
“They shrug their shoulders and treat you like a child.”
Source: The Little Prince
“They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods”
“They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
“They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.”
“They signed the unwind order just to spite each other,but laugh,laugh,laugh,Hayden, because if you ever stop laughing,it might just tear you apart worse than a Chop Shop.”
Source: Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; Unstrung: an Unwind Story; Unwholly
“they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?”
Source: New Poems Book Three