T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“They were heading to an event the woman had heard about on Twitter and to which a famous billionaire with ambitions to resettle humankind on Mars had apparently shown up, but at some point the woman decided the photo was photoshopped, a promotional hoax, and redirected the driver towards a house party”
Source: Perfection
“They were her best friends, her support system, her family.”
Source: Fairly Familiar: A Collection of Short Stories
“They were her recognition and her offering—a bit of matter, coated in glitter, and placed before a saint.”
Source: Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
“They were her words. But hers or not, those words, which had so comforted and healed me, were hollow. I don't believe they were faithless, but sincerity failed to give them substance, and they were swept away by other, stronger currents.”
Source: Educated
“They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.”
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel
“They were his friends, his first friends, and he understood that friendship was a series of exchanges, of affections, of time, sometimes of money, always of information.”
Source: A Little Life
“They were holding their weapons but could not risk opening a window or exiting the vehicle to return fire. Then they saw one of their attackers pull out a grenade.”
Source: Enemies Among Us
“They were home. He always felt a bit like a snail, but instead of carrying his home on his back, he carried it in his arms.”
Source: A Rule Against Murder
“They were impressed too. The others. With the polar bear story. Nora was a hero of sorts not in an Olympic-swimming-champion way, but in another equally fulfilling kind of fashion.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“They were, in fact and at last, free. And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes -- a puree of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and fantasy.”
Source: The Bluest Eye
“they were in love with apocalypse, like all men, more in love with myths than with any woman.”
Source: Dance the Eagle to Sleep
“They were in love with him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love princes and faeries and magic people. They loved him the way they’d loved Beast the first time he swept Belle around the dance floor in her yellow dress. They loved him as they loved the Eleventh Doctor with his bow tie and his flippy hair and the Tenth Doctor with his mad laugh. They loved him as they loved lead singers of bands and actors in movies, loved him in such a way that their shared love brought them closer together.”
Source: The Darkest Part of the Forest
“They were, in the end, only vessels for the languages they spoke.”
Source: Babel
“They were in the middle of a garden with trees shaped as animals. There were gorillas and camels and lions. Rosie felt like she was in some strange storybook circus. Any minute the gorillas would start talking and the lions would charge towards her.
"What are we doing here?" Rosie's eyes went wide.
"Just follow me." Josh grinned.
Rosie followed him through a maze of gardens, each more elaborate than the last. There was a Japanese garden bursting with pink and white blossoms. They passed a water garden with floating lilies, and a tropical garden with birds of paradise and purple irises.
Finally they entered a small garden with low-lying plants. A butterfly rested on almost every leaf. Rosie had never seen so many butterflies. She stood still as a statue, afraid if she moved they'd fly away.
"This is my favorite," Josh said as if he created the garden. "It's called the butterfly garden. All the flowers contain food attractive to butterflies. The butterflies lay their eggs and feast for days before they fly away."
"They're like kaleidoscopes." Rosie peered at a butterfly with gold-and-turquoise wings.”
Source: California Summer
“They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists. The integrity of an artist lifts a man above the level of the world without delivering him from it.”
Source: Thomas Merton: I Have Seen what I was Looking for : Selected Spiritual Writings
“They were incorrigibly children of the idea, feckless and color-blind, for whom body and spirit were forever and inevitably opposed.
The Semitic mind was strange and dark full of depressions and exaltations, lacking in rule, but with more of ardor and more fertile in belief than any other in the world. They were people of starts, for whom the abstract was the strongest motive, the process of infinite courage and variety, and the end nothing. The were unstable as water, and like water would perhaps finally prevail.”
Source: Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
“They were indeed great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost.”
Source: Tales of Grimm and Andersen
“They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of.”
“They were interesting things, stars. Like clouds, you could see them and could not deny their existence. Yet you couldn’t touch them, hold them, or own them. You couldn’t feel them. Love was somewhat the opposite, he pondered. It can’t be seen but it can be felt. It was intangible, like the stars and the clouds, like the heavens and destiny. Yet it existed, he knew this to be true.”
Source: The City of Love: A Medieval Time Travel Romance
“They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know.”
“They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.”
Source: The world according to Garp
“They were Jesuits," she told me. "That means they believe in God but not in terlet paper. You should have seen their underwear. Disgusting.”
“They were jet, those wings, as deep as the sky, as black as Eoduin's hair—no, blacker, for they were dull, unoiled. They gave off no sheen in the light, no gleam to the eye. They drank up the light and diminished it: they were wings of pure shadow.”
“They were just accidents. Luke said he was just testing my concussion. I'm not mad at him.”
“They were just boys. Take away the band, the lights, the fame, and the screaming girls, and they were just boys, chosen for us to obsess over.”
Source: Kill the Boy Band
“They were just restless.”
“Restless? Is that another term for avoiding arrest?”
“What? No!”
Source: Run to Ground
“They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had Stanley Something-or-other take in Sacramento in 1988 to serve as backgrounds to his cartoons. People don't draw it, all this crap, people don't focus attention on it because it's ugly, it's bleak, it's depressing... But, this is the world we live in; I wanted my work to reflect that, the background reality of urban life. )”
“They were just the ordinary sounds of of people beginning their day, silly raucous, discordant, but they were the most beautiful sounds on earth, the sounds of living people.”
Source: Company of Liars
“They were kids, she and Matthew; no one asked their opinion or told them anything. They just had to muddle along and live in the world presented to them, confused a lot of the time because nothing made sense, but certain of their subterranean place on the food chain.”
Source: The Great Alone
“They were kissing. Put like that, and you could be forgiven for presuming that this was a normal kiss, all lips and skin and possibly even a little tongue. You'd miss how he smiled, how his eyes glowed. And then, after the kiss was done, how he stood, like a man who had just discovered the art of standing and had figured out how to do it better than anyone else who would ever come along.”
Source: Anansi Boys
“They were laughing and their hair was shining like leaves in moonlight, their limbs long as saplings. I thought, Girls are magical at this phase, girls are invincible, nothing can touch them. I didn’t think ‘us’ because I didn’t feel that; I felt other, on the outside, watching them.”
Source: Love in the Time of Global Warming
“They were laughter on hot city nights hot milk on cold city mornings, good food
and good times
fancy dancing and soul music.
They were family.”
Source: Brown Girl Dreaming
“They were left to wait, cocooned in a vacuum of fear and doubt, of non-information and empty hope.”
Source: The Gypsy Morph
“They were liberating Harrisonville, showing the hypocrites and phonies and $$$-squirrelers and chokeragged Yesmen some puffed-up balls. They were widening the mental horizons of a town more narrow-minded than its streets; they were missionaries laboring amon their bloodkin: montheytheistic theocentric cousins and uncles who swore allegiance to Uncle Sam, Jim Crow, Oral Roberts, and Dale Carnegie; they were waging their impudent revolution against people they'd cowedly called "sir" all their teenage lives.”
Source: Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse
“They were like a horde of greedy cannibals, salivating to sample the divine flesh. Yet the robed, starving light only burned from their eyes while the fruit filled their mouths.”
Source: Scenting Hallowed Blood
“They were like all Americans. They could not see what was right before their eyes. They certainly didn't see the rest of the world.”
Source: The Book of Phoenix
“They were like an iceberg, it occurred to me, my father the seven-eighths that was under the water and my mother the luminous portion riding the waves. But no, they were two icebergs: solitary phenomena, impressive, independent, known only to themselves. I felt their hidden seven-eighths inside me as a dark bulkiness whose outlines I was always trying to map.”
Source: All Things Consoled: A Daughter's Memoir
“They were like an iceberg, it occurred to me, my father the seven-sights that was under the water and my mother the luminous portion riding the waves. But no, they were two icebergs: solitary phenomena, impressive, independent, known only to themselves. I felt their hidden seven-eighths inside me as a dark bulkiness whose outlines I was always trying to map.”
Source: All Things Consoled: A Daughter's Memoir
“They were like an overconstructed novel, each representative of some cul-de-sac of idiolect and stereotype, missing only a handicapped person – No! At Berkeley we say handi capable person – and a Jew and a Hispanic, and an Asian not of the subcontinent, Louis always said. He had once placed a personals ad on Craigslist to recruit for those positions: Diverse social club seeking to make quota requires the services of East Asian, Jew, Hispanic, and handicapable individuals to round out Multicultural Brady Bunch Troupe. All applicants must be visibly identifiable as members of said group. Reformed Jews and ADHDers need not apply.”
Source: Welcome to Braggsville
“They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures”
“They were like lightning and rain, existing together but clashing at their very natures.”
Source: Hatred Day
“They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running.”
Source: Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels
“They were like the day and night. Sometimes the light consumed the darkness and shined. And sometimes the darkness crawled on the light, slowly embracing it and hiding it in silence.”
Source: Between the Abyss and Paradise
“They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.”
Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“They were like the Neapolitan girl who said that her sorbet was good but that it would have been better if it had been a sin to eat it.”
Source: Les Diaboliques - édition enrichie
“They were like two enemies in love with one another.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: (Translated by Constance Garnett)
“They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing to penetrate, failing to breathe the other's air.”
Source: The Unnamed
“They were like two magnets who couldn't decide whether to attract or repel.”
Source: The Future of Us
“They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses.”
“They were like two sides of the same coin, but with two different meanings and purposes. So different, yet so similar in profound ways.”
Source: Unfinished: A Déjà Rêvé Novel