T Quotes
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“This omnipresent cult of the body is extraordinary. It is the only object on which everyone is made to concentrate, not as a source of pleasure, but as an object of frantic concern, in the obsessive fear of failure or substandard performance, a sign and an anticipation of death, that death to which no one can any longer give a meaning, but which everyone knows has at all times to be prevented. The body is cherished in the perverse certainty of its uselessness, in the total certainty of its non-resurrection. Now, pleasure is an effect of the resurrection of the body, by which it exceeds that hormonal, vascular and dietetic equilibrium in which we seek to imprison it, that exorcism by fitness and hygiene. So the body has to be made to forget pleasure as present grace, to forget its possible metamorphosis into other forms of appearance and become dedicated to the utopian preservation of a youth that is, in any case, already lost. For the body which doubts its own existence is already half-dead, and the current semi-yogic, semi-ecstatic cult of the body is a morbid preoccupation. The care taken of the body while it is alive prefigures the way it will be made up in the funeral home.”
Source: America
“This one commercial said, "Forget everything you know about slipcovers." So I did, and it was a load off of my mind. Then the commercial tried to sell slipcovers, but I didn't know what they were!”
“This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration ... I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.”
“This one day her mother gave her
a basket of wine and cake
to take to her grandmother
because she was ill.
Wine and cake?
Where's the aspirin? The penicillin?
Where's the fruit juice?
Peter Rabbit got camomile tea.
But wine and cake it was.”
Source: Transformations
“This one doesn't exist. The prettiest girl and the best car don't exist as well.”
“This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely tabulate, and is incapable of developing, the Analytical Engine can either tabulate or develope.”
“This one god could be of the deistic or pantheistic sort. Deism might be superior in explaining why God has seemingly left us to our own devices and pantheism could be the more logical option as it fits well with the ontological argument's 'maximally-great entity' and doesn't rely on unproven concepts about 'nothing' (as in 'creation out of nothing'). A mixture of the two, pandeism, could be the most likely God-concept of all.”
Source: There Was No Jesus, There Is No God
“This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when I said it.”
“This one guy Roland was so weird that during sex his voice altered—as if he were a fucking alien—and he started talking like a baby in a bizarre high-pitched voice. He’d start screaming shit like, “I just want to fuck my baby! I’m your baby! Will you be my baby? Baby? Baby?” For one thing, he couldn’t decide whether he was the baby or the daddy. Make up your mind, freak. I had to force myself out from under him and flee the apartment undressed, clutching my clothes.”
Source: Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin
“This one guy's wife is such a pretty brown thing, that I'm liable to give her a poke or two. Whaddaya think of that?”
“This one guy, the worst guy in the music. The Yanni man. You know Yanni? First of all, anyone who looks like a magician and doesn't do magic, I don't like. I don't even like magic, I hate it. But I love the word, "Ta-da"! I love that word! I don't get to say it, right? I never do any magic. You just can't go around walking, "Ta-da!" "Ta-da!" "Ta-da!" The only time I can say it is when I do something really stupid or surprising. Like if I go out all night drinking and hitting strip clubs and I come home and I still got some money... "Ta-da!" I thought I was broke. Why does my jaw hurt?”
“This one had come to me, though, picked me out. I thought she was trouble from the start. I don't read minds and I can't see the future, but call it instinct or experience, something was prickling my spine.
You could call it something else, if you wanted: adolescence, hormones, lust. Being seventeen. That doesn't go away, however long you practice.
"Hullo," I said politely, warily.
She was long and slim and very neatly put together, dark hair tumbling over denim, old worn black jacket and jeans that somehow hadn't faded into grey. They probably didn't dare. Right from the start I saw a focus in her, a determination that must go all the way through, like the writing in a stick of Brighton rock. In another world, another lifetime, I thought she'd have raven-feathers in her hair, a bear's tooth on a thong about her. She'd be the village shaman, talking to spirits, and even the headman would be afraid of her, a little...
Seventeen, I told you. She was devastating to me, she was sitting at my table, and I couldn't afford her. Not for a minute.
If I'd stood up, if I'd left, if I'd run away...
Nah. She would just have come after me. Faster, fitter, and on longer legs. What chance did I ever have?”
Source: Desdaemona
“This one,' I added with a glare in Rhys's direction, 'is only cranky because he's old and it's past his bedtime.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“This one incident I will not allow you to shrug off!" "I wasn't planning to," Jace said. "I can't shrug anything off. My shoulder's dislocated." -Hodge & Jace, pg.296-”
“This one is for every single woman who was told to calm down, stop meddling, take up less space, and be a little quieter.
Here's a bullhorn. Use it often.”
Source: Snapshot
“This one is for the boys in the polos Entrepreneur niggas & the moguls”
“This one is for the boys with the boomin system
Top down AC with the coolin system”
“This one is for the loner
For the one who chooses a table in the corner
Who is unafraid to come home to them self
Loner, don’t rob yourself
Of the gift of being with others
Your human sisters and brothers
A loner, it’s okay to be one
But don’t let them say you’re gone”
Source: Hey Humanity
“This one is for you, nineteen-year-old Richard.”
Source: Pieces of a Broken Mind
“This one is from the immortals series i cant remember what book. Damen to Ever While we may judge things as good or bad, karma doesn't, ts a simple case of like gets like the ultimate balancing act, nothing more nothing less, and if your determined to fix every situation you deem as bad or difficult or some how unsavoury, then you rob the person of their own chance to fix it, learn from it or grow from it, some things no matter how painful happen for a reason.”
“This one is skewered guts. It's all the guts except the liver."
"It's got that unique texture of a gut, with a slightly bitter taste!"
"The flavor of the guts tends to seep out when you make soup with it, but this retains all its refreshing original flavor!"
"This is a fin skewer. As you can guess from its name, it's the dorsal fin of the eel...
... wrapped around a skewer with ribs and garlic chives."
"This is my
favorite
one!"
"They throw these parts away when they make kabayaki."
"Ah! I understand why this is your favorite, Yamaoka-san! The eel and the garlic chives create a rich, savory flavor!"
"I never thought eel and garlic chives would go so well together!"
"The dorsal fin of a left-eyed flounder is called an engawa, and it's considered a delicacy. It's the most active part of the fish's body, so it's fatty and good to eat."
"The same goes for the eel."
"This one is the collar. It's the meat around the neck, below the eyes...
... which I cut open and skewered after taking the head off.
The head bone is very tough, so this is the only part of the eel I throw away."
"Hmm, so it's called the "collar" because it's the area around the neck."
"It has a complex flavor to it too. It's totally different from the stomach meat, the guts or the dorsal fin!"
"It kind of tastes like a mixture of fish and lamb meat! There are so many other skewers, right?!"
"Yahata-maki, which is eel meat wrapped around burdock.
Tanzaku, where the meat has been cut like strips of paper.
Smoked eel.
And of course, we can't forget the famous kabayaki.”
Source: Izakaya: Pub Food
“This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, there’s divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them. And to find a horse like this in the middle of this filthy abomination of a war, is for me like finding a butterfly on a dung heap. We don’t belong in the same universe as a creature like this.”
“This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.”
“This one looks good,” said Chong over breakfast the next morning. Benny read out loud from the paper. “‘Pit Thrower.’ What’s that?” “I don’t know,” Chong said with a mouth full of toast. “I think it has something to do with barbecuing.” It didn’t.”
Source: Rot and Ruin
“This one man dynasty has only just begun.”
“This one move, this one intense moment has brought out everything that is hidden deep within my soul.”
Source: Broken Faith
“This one night we were smoking a joint up on the roof of this apartment over on Santa Monica and Wyatt said, ‘I love you so much and I don’t understand why you don’t love me.’
I said, ‘I love you as much as I’m willing to love anybody.’/
And then he had this chorus about me having a big heart but no love in it. I kept looking at the words, thinking, This isn’t right. He didn’t understand me at all. So I thought about it for a little while and got out a pen and paper. I wrote some things down.
When he woke up, I said, ‘Your chorus should be more like Big eyes, big soul/big heart, no control/but all she got to give is tiny love.”
Source: Daisy Jones & The Six
“This one night we will be mad — dance lightly — raise our hearts as the beat strengthens, grows buoyant — careless, defiant. What matters anything so long as ones step is in time — so long as one’s whole body & mind are dancing too — what shall end it?”
“This one phrase, "It is my life, I will do what I want," has done more damage than good. People choose to ignore the spirit and derive the meaning that is convenient to them. Such people have tied this phrase to selfishness and I'm sure that was not the intent.
These people forget that we don't live in isolation. What you do affects me and what I do affects you. We are connected. We have to realize that we are sharing this planet and we must learn to behave responsibly.
There are two kinds of people in this world--takers and givers. Takers eat well and givers sleep well. Givers have high self-esteem, a positive attitude, and they serve society. By serving society, I do not mean a run-of-the-mill pseudo leader-turned- politician who serves himself by pretending to serve others.
As human beings, we all have the need to receive and take. But a healthy personality with high self-esteem is one that not only has its need to take but also to give.”
Source: You Can Win : A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“This one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it's meant to. You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true. Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.”
Source: The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
“This one's my other favorite. 'He's successful in interfacing with clients we already have, but as for new clients, it's low-hanging fruit. He takes a high-altitude view, but he doesn't drill down to that level of granularity where we might actionize new opportunities.'"
Clark winced. "I remember that one. I think I may have had a minor stroke in the office when he said that.”
Source: Station Eleven
“This one sank deep into her marrow and made her heart soar like the shuttles piercing the stratosphere.”
Source: Solid Ground
“This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while laughs in the teeth of Death.”
Source: FLOWER AND THORN
“This one time I made love on the back seat of a car and the police came and shined his light on me, and I said I'm strokin'. That's what I'm doing, I be strokin'.”
“This one time I stayed up way past my bedtime... man that was scary.”
“This one was a knowin' one an' he knew he was lonely.”
Source: The Secret Garden
“this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making,
sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake,
this blessing love gives again into our arms.”
“This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.”
Source: Great Grace: A 31-day Devotional
“This one word “Love” has revolutionized the whole planet in an evolutionary way. Without this, none of us might have been born.”
Source: Love Sutra: The Neuroscientific Manual of Love
“This one's for Alaska Young!”
Source: The John Green Collection
“This one's like that because it's about these things that I think weigh heavily on me in terms of my own failings and the things that I worry about and my personal demons. Is the sum of my personal demons greater than the things that I like about myself? Is this moment - because it's a particulary high tension, scary moment for all of us in terms of the global climate - going to bring out the best or the worst in us?”
“This one’s easy to use. The pointy end goes into their body. (Liza)”
Source: Dream Chaser
“This ongoing coexistence which makes life sensational. The eyes have this ability to flip around what they see from one second to another, to see something as an object, and then as a design. That's really liberating, and I try to convey that in my work, that your eyes are free and you are free to use them.”
“This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.”
“This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.”
“This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.”
Source: John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers
“This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.”
“This only unconcerned spectator in the midst of the apparent general bustle, was Mr Meadows; who viewed all that passed without troubling himself to interfere, and with an air of the most evident carelessness whether matters went well or went ill.”
Source: Cecilia
“This opens the door on another chapter of history.”
“This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that's the way it's going to be. We're going down there, and we're throwing everything we have into it, and we're going to make it a success.”