T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“They were draped in teeth and bone and skins, with Orlagh leading them. She wore a gown of stingray, and her black hair was threaded with pearls. Around her throat hung the partial jawbone of a shark.”
Source: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“They were dressed in leather like biker chicks. Serena had on platform boots, a tight-fitting motorcycle jacket, and a mini. Jimena wore studded ankle boots, a bareback leather halter top, and a hip-hugging matching skirt.”
Source: The Secret Scroll
“They were drinking, laughing and dancing, but I was sitting alone in the corner and talking to your soul.”
Source: A moment with God ; Poetry
“They were dying slowly - it was very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now - nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom. Brought from all the recesses of the coast in all the legality of time contracts, lost in uncongenial surroundings, fed on unfamiliar food, they sickened, became inefficient, and were then allowed to crawl away and rest.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“They were each like a mirror for the other, reflecting the changes in themselves.”
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“They were earthquakes, fireworks, and the reunion of torn countries. They were something that was never meant to happen yet always bound to be.”
Source: The Things That Haunt Us: A suspenseful mystery novel based on real events
“They were elegant. Bored yet all seemed to carry perfect self-assurance. They all seemed to be in no rush. They were comfortable in this environment. No tense muscles, no tense movements. No twitching and no slouched shoulders.”
Source: Tajrish
“They were enjoying it. Whether they were faking or not, they were enjoying it.”
“They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven.”
Source: Christmas Classics Premium Collection: 150+ Novels, Stories & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated): A Christmas Carol, The Gift of the Magi, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, The Wonderful Life of Christ…
“They were enormously chic. My father was very chic. My mother was a heavy woman and she wore wonderful, bright colors, and pajamas, but when she was in town or in New York City or in Paris, she would wear navy blue or black. But there was a flamboyance to both of them.”
“They were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge in this city.”
“They were even talking about buying a bodyguard, can you believe it? I mean, what on earth would I look like, turning up with a bodyguard?
Actually, I'd look pretty cool and mysterious, wouldn't I? That might have been quite a good idea.”
Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic
“They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.”
“They were eyes no longer, but had become those fathomless mirrors which in men who have known the depths of suffering may replace the conscious gaze, so that they no longer see reality but reflect the memory of past events.”
Source: Les Misérables
“They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.”
“They were feeling generously dramatic due to lack of food.”
“They were female giraffes - cream and lemon yellow. They had horns like doorknobs. The knobs were covered with velvet. Why?”
Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
“They were firemakers! They were gods! [humans]”
“They were following me because I was ahead of them, which is no way to choose a leader. Following someone simply because they're out in front is never a good idea, but it happens all the time.”
Source: We're with Nobody: Two Insiders Reveal the Dark Side of American Politics
“They were following their prime minister, matching their government's mood.”
Source: The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
“They were fond of each other, and that was more than you could say about most marriages.”
Source: Land of Big Numbers
“They were free to do whatever they like, to do evil, which everyone knows is the easiest thing to do.”
Source: Blindness
“They were French, they were Jews, and they were you.”
Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger
“They were friends. That's all she ever seemed to have. Friends. She had enough of them.”
Source: Lost in Time
“They were frightening enough, but Tessa could not help but feel that if Will were there, he would have commented that they looked like turnips, and perhaps made up a song about it.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody.”
Source: The Hobbit
“They were frisky, eager and exuberant, and they had all been friends in the States. They were plainly unthinkable. They were noisy, overconfident, empty-headed kids of twenty-one. They had gone to college and were engaged to pretty, clean girls whose pictures were already standing on the rough cement mantelpiece of Orr's fireplace. They had ridden in speedboats and played tennis. They had been horseback riding. One had once been to bed with an older woman. They knew the same poeple in different parts of the country and had gone to school with each other's cousins.”
“They were from two different worlds. Two entirely different people. But upon their coming together, they created- they found- their own path and together they had their own world and in their own world, they were the same. Everyone else outside of it- everyone else was over there. Away. And they together- they together were here. They were right here. They were the same.”
“They were full of suspicion and wonder, which I had grown to recognize as two very dangerous things.”
Source: The Elementals
“They were getting to know not only the details of each other's lives, but getting to know one another - a different thing. The process of getting to know anyone is not merely a matter of listening, watching, and understanding. M. Maurois has pointed out how, in any new relationship, we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interest; for them, we in a strange sense wish to, and do, start life anew.”
Source: Illyrian Spring
“They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate?Misfortune?Is that what glued them down like that?Of course not.Let's not be stupid.It probably had more to do with the hurled bombs, thrown down by humans hiding in the clouds.”
“They were going crazy in Kansas. People were up to 9 p.m. I think that was the greatest thing to happen to Kansas since the eradication of the boll weevil.”
“They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.”
Source: Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)
“They were going to die slower and harder than any son of a bitch had ever died before, and while they died I'd laugh my god-damn head off!”
Source: My Gun Is Quick
“They were going to drag the boy she loved into the clearing, point a gun at the kindest, bravest person she'd ever met, and end his life with the twitch of a finger.”
Source: Homecoming
“They were going to the house of a man who was shot dead. What was with all the exuberance? But maybe that was the only way you could move forward after mindlessly recording stories of brutality and violence for days on end? Maybe detachment was the only way. But if you could not be passionate about your job, what was the point in doing it?”
Source: Between The Headlines
“They were gone and I missed them but even so I was very happy. For the rest of my life no matter where on this planet earth I went and no matter how scared or confused I got, I could wait until dark and look up into the night sky and see my three friends again and my heart would swell with love of them and make me strong and clearheaded.”
“They were good parents. The worst thing they ever did to us was die.”
Source: While England Sleeps
“They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself”
Source: 1984
“They were great parents, and I saw them as often as I could, which is to say holidays and an occasional weekend. A typical twenty-something, I enjoyed my independence. But my parents were there when I needed them, always there. The idea that I would someday have to walk this earth without their anchor and misguided guidance made me wince, to say nothing of losing both of them at only eighteen.
I was glad Simon seemed to have good friends and such a powerful advocate as Benjamin watching out for him. But as close as friends and lovers could be, there was something about belonging to someone completely that gave you roots—roots you sometimes needed when the world battled against you.”
Source: Wallbanger
“They were great philosophies, simple philosophies. That everybody had a heart, everyone had a brain, everyone had courage, these were the gifts that were given to you; and if you use them properly, you reach the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And that pot of gold is home. And home is not a house or a boat, it's the people who love you. And the people you love.”
“They were grooming Doris Day to take over the top spot. Jack L. Warner asked me to play her sister in one picture. I said, "Come on, Jack. No one could ever believe that I would have Doris Day for a sister."”
“They were growing closer and closer every day, and Charlotte was finding something magical at Wildflower, something she never thought she would find again—love.”
Source: Then Comes Love
“They were grown-ups. Didn't the stupid man realize that he no longer had the power to send anyone to their room? They could stand up and leave whenever they liked. They could move interstate or overseas. They could choose to never visit, to never call, to never have children.
The children had all the power now.”
Source: Apples Never Fall
“They were ‘half breeds,’ ‘mongrel races,’ and ‘mixed-bloods.” These individuals and families may have gravitated to frontier areas or to mixed-race communities that were more welcoming of their heritage. They too kept traditions of their Indian lineage alive, yet the fact that they assimilated into existing, non-tribal (if also nonwhite) communities leads to the same conclusion as the white-Indian individuals mentioned: it could hardly be said that these mixed Indian, black, and white communities were tribes. Because of stereotypes, however, it is easer to view these impoverished, marginal enclaves as Indian. The basic facts pertinent to tribal recognition are the same: thousands of individuals left tribal communities in the nineteenth century, and their descendants cannot now make a convincing case to be aboringal Indian tribes.”
Source: Claiming Tribal Identity: The Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgment
“They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized syphilitic.”
“They were happier now than they would ever be again. A tenpenny tea set made Cam happy for days. She heard them stamping and crowing on the floor above her head the moment they woke. They came bustling along the passage. Then the door sprang open and in they came, fresh as roses, staring, wide awake, as if this coming into the dining-room after was a positive event to them, and so on, with one thing after another, all day long, until she went up to say good-night to them, and found them netted in their cots like birds among cherries and raspberries, still making up stories about some little bit of rubbish-–something they heard, something they had picked up in the garden. They had all their little treasures. . . And so she went down and said to her husband, Why must they grow up and lose it all? Never will they be so happy again. And he was angry. Why take such a gloomy view of life? he said. It is not sensible. For it was odd; and he believed it to be true; that with all his gloom and desperation he was happier, more hopeful on the whole, than she was. Less exposed to human worries––perhaps that was it. He had always his work to fall back on.”
Source: To the Lighthouse
“They were happy, I thought. As a child, laughter is all you need as proof of happiness. As a child you don't know there are so many different kinds of laughter - like different varieties of birds. Some are flightless.”
Source: This House of Clay and Water
“They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses but which can go on forever, if both parties are willing.”
Source: Coraline
“They were having no difficulty in believing her because she was telling the somewhat improbable truth. Now that she was about to lie, they would go on believing her.”
Source: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman