T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“They were the flash of light in a stormy sky, the fleeting darkness before dawn. Never have they existed before, nor shall they ever exist again.”
Source: The Rose Society
“They were the kind of couple you rolled your eyes at. The couple you wanted to punch square in their perfect noses, but secretly hoped would become your new best friends and invite you to a private dinner party where you’d eat something made with truffle oil and share a rueful laugh about the party scene in Ibiza.”
Source: Genesis
“They were the men and the women of the sand, of the wind, of the light, of the night. They appeared as in a dream, at the crest of a dune, as if they were born of the cloudless sky.”
“They were the only barriers in their relationship, but only they couldn't understand that. If only they had tried harder, it would have been a different story. Arjun's Jenny.”
“They were the people I modeled myself after because fitting in was easier than sticking out. I wore what they wore, I watched what they watched. I listened to the music they liked, and I screamed at musicians' names because these girls screamed first.”
Source: A Certain Hunger
“They were the reason that he kept faith with his stars, that reinforced him in his belief that the universe had more in store for him than the mug's game of working for a modest salary until he retired or died.”
“They were the right counterbalance to one another.”
Source: Counterbalance
“They were the same. All of them, monsters. Only Mazen had been innocent, and now he would be haunted by imaginary blood on his hands for the rest of his life.”
Source: The Ashfire King
“They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.”
Source: Full Tilt
“They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might preach to hungry men, and the hungry men must be humble and listen. They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not managed to get a decent existence for their bodies?”
Source: The Jungle
“They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.”
Source: The Namesake: A Novel
“They were told what they wanted and they believed it. They can only keep their dream alive by being with others like themselves who will mirror their illusions.”
Source: Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story
“They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“They were too near to me. I loved them to much. And the love overtaking me and combined with the fact that I was going to spend another evening alone, doing nothing with it, being waited down to motionlessness by my own actions made me want to get it over with and fucking be alone.”
Source: I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You
“They were torn by force, on the one hand, and by freedom, on the other, and stood defenseless against the chaos that threatened to destroy the whole order of the intellectual world. In them we encounter for the first time the modern artist with his inward strife, his zest for life and his escapism, his traditionalism and his rebelliousness, his exhibitionistc subjectivism and the reserve with which he tries to hold back the ultimate secret of his personality. From now on the number of cranks, eccentrics, and psychopaths among the artists increases from day to day.”
Source: The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
“They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn't in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed.”
“They were tough and sour, but as Pushkin said, 'Dearer to us than a host of truths is an exalting illusion.' I saw a happy man, whose cherished dream had so obviously come true, who had attained his goal in life, had gotten what he wanted, who was content with his fate and with himself. For some reason there had always been something sad mixed with my thoughts about human happiness, but now, at the sight of a happy man, I was overcome by an oppressive feeling close to despair.
- Gooseberries”
Source: Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
“They were tower stairs, a tight corkscrew down. The spiraling descent made Karou dizzy: down, around, down, around, hypnotic, until it seemed as if she were caught in a purgatory of stairs and would go down like this forever.”
Source: Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy
“They were tricky, those demons. Could they be trusted? Of course they could be trusted. She'd created them. She owned them. They wouldn't lead her astray.”
Source: Very LeFreak
“They were trying to orchestrate a revolution, which almost by definition generated a sense of collective trauma that defied any semblance of coherence and control. If we wish to rediscover the psychological context of the major players in Philadelphia, we need to abandon our hindsight omniscience and capture their mentality as they negotiated the unknown.”
Source: Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
“They were trying . . . to protect themselves from any further injury by turning away from the world altogether.”
Source: We Wish You Luck
“They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.”
Source: Carrie
“They were turning now, panning past the Sandias, the black-green crags and rocky faces, the ribbon of road leading to the white crest. Amina looked down on Albuquerque, the light bouncing off the sprawling tile of houses and pools, the cars running along the highways like busy insects. She imagined all of it gone, undone, erased back to 1968, when the city was nothing but eighty miles of hope huddling in a desert storm. She imagined Kamala on the tarmac, walking toward a life in the desert, her body pulled forward by faith and dirty wind.”
Source: The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing
“They were twin souls, soldiers destined to fight for different sides, to find each other and lose each other too quickly. She would not keep him here. Not like this.”
Source: Crooked Kingdom
“They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.”
“They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came.”
Source: Aerogrammes: and Other Stories
“They were two strangers holding each other for the night, and given the vast timeline of the universe, the difference between a night together and a lifetime seemed pretty much negligible.”
Source: Shark Heart
“They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.”
Source: Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
“They were unfailing in their love for me, and most of the time they had gotten nothing in return. Maybe that last part was the proof that my mother was right. They only gave, and I only took.”
Source: Switched
“They were unwillingly to give 100 percent if they didn't personally think it was important. What you don't understand is the champions know it's all important.”
“They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.”
Source: The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection
“They were using her feinting body to erase their present and catapult themselves into a fantasy where sex-starved women lay submissive and split open like red, ripe watermelons.”
Source: Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
“They were utopian, which meant they saw imperfection everywhere they looked.”
Source: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
“They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.”
“They were very short, the golden years. The golden years are when you can sit back, hopefully, and exchange memories. And that's the worst part about this disease. There's nobody to exchange memories with.”
“They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when the skies darkened and the nation called, both reawoke to the meaning of their existence. One shielded our bodies, the other, our souls.”
Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies.”
Source: The Street of Crocodiles
“They were waiting for me in the books and in stories, after all, hiding inside the twenty six characters and a handful of punctuation marks. These letters and words, when placed in the right order, would conjure all manner of exotic beasts and people from the shadows, would reveal the motives and minds of insects and of cats. They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.”
Source: Unnatural Creatures
“They were wandering around for about half an hour; then they crawled along the river bank, trembling both because of fear and the cold wind which blew stronger at night.
It seemed like the rustling reeds were whispering, trying to say something… which seemed even scarier.
Emily began silently—just in her thoughts—talking to the heavens asking for help, as she normally did in situations like that.”
Source: The Adventures of Emily Smyth and Billy Fifer
“They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”
Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic
“They were wearing camouflage gear direct from central casting, and if it hadn't been for the guns I might have laughed, not yet realizing that female laughter would soon be in short supply.”
Source: The Testaments
“They were wearing smelly blankets, they looked like Donovan fans.”
“They were willing to do anything to stop me.”
“They were with him, and for that little while the darkness was kind.”
Source: It
“They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)
“They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.”
“They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.”
Source: The Sound of the Mountain
“They were working even when they weren't working-fueling each other's creativity and inventiveness with a new point of view-and while the scientific community would later marvel at their productivity, they probably would have marveled even more had they realized most of it was done naked.”
Source: Lessons in Chemistry
“They were working hard at their own myth.”
Source: Aurorarama
“They were worried we wouldn't get any radio play at all[ for "A Deal with God" ]. That's why it was changed [to "Running Up That Hill"].”