T Quotes
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“Tokyo is huge. Something like 15 million people live there, and my estimate is that at any given moment, 14.7 million of them are lost.”
Source: Dave Barry Does Japan
“Tokyo is like a huge futuristic pinball machine. It's like a bubble with two lost creatures inside a pinball machine that doesn't care about them. The other thing is, it's very colorful.”
“Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like about various cultures.”
“Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Santiago de Chile sit on the ring of fire. Tehran, far away from the ring still suffers the same fate. Earthquake-prone, the city has learned to adapt. The city, stacked with apartments on top of one another, looks like a box of Lego. Tight alleyways, covered with buildings, stretch all the way to the foot of the mountains. The folks in Tehran don’t want to even imagine what chaos will ensue if a major earthquake strikes. The most frightening phenomenon though isn’t the rubble and building blocks crumbling down. None of that scares the people. What concerns them is if the mother of all earthquakes pays a visit, the biggest threat will be rats. Tehran’s underground has a burgeoning “ratopolis.” To every living human being in the city, there are three rats to match every living soul. And if the city collapses, three rats are enough to ravage through human flesh in a matter of days. So the urban myth goes. Even if bodies can be rescued from the rubble there’ll likely be carcasses left behind.”
Source: Tajrish
“Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.”
“Tokyo." Mr. Fuchigami's voice inflates with pride. "Formerly Edo, almost destroyed by the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, then again in 1944 by nighttime firebombing raids. Tens of thousands were killed." The chamberlain grows silent. "Kishikaisei."
"What does that mean?" There's a skip in my chest. We've entered the city now. The high-rises are no longer cut out shapes against the skyline, but looming gray giants. Every possible surface is covered in signs---neon and plastic or painted banners---they all scream for attention. It's noisy, too. There is a cacophony of pop tunes, car horns, advertising jingles, and trains coasting over rails. Nothing is understated.
"Roughly translated, 'wake from death and return to life.' Against hopeless circumstances, Tokyo has risen. It is home to more than thirty-five million people." He pauses. "And, in addition, the oldest monarchy in the world."
The awe returns tenfold. I clutch the windowsill and press my nose to the glass. There are verdant parks, tidy residential buildings, upmarket shops, galleries, and restaurants. For each sleek, new modern construction, there is one low-slung wooden building with a blue tiled roof and glowing lanterns. It's all so dense. Houses lean against one another like drunk uncles.
Mr. Fuchigami narrates Tokyo's history. A city built and rebuilt, born and reborn. I imagine cutting into it like a slice of cake, dissecting the layers. I can almost see it. Ash from the Edo fires with remnants of samurai armor, calligraphy pens, and chipped tea porcelain. Bones from when the shogunate fell. Dust from the Great Earthquake and more debris from the World War II air raids.
Still, the city thrives. It is alive and sprawling with neon-colored veins. Children in plaid skirts and little red ties dash between business personnel in staid suits. Two women in crimson kimonos and matching parasols duck into a teahouse.”
Source: Tokyo Ever After
“Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we are likely to see in this moviegoing year.”
“Tokyo was a place you could quite happily exist alone and be self-contained. It seemed to promise that it was better to be by yourself.”
Source: Sympathy
“Tokyo was an origami city folded over and over until something was made of virtually nothing.”
Source: The Love We Share Without Knowing
“Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.”
“Tokyopop's been extraordinary. They approached me to do My Dead Girlfriend - Julie Taylor, one of the senior editors was a huge fan of The O.C. - asked if I'd be interested in creating a book for Tokyopop. My Dead Girlfriend was the book we all agreed upon as being the one that I would do first, and they've just embraced it completely.”
“Tokyu Food Show!" Oscar and Nik both said.
I eagerly followed the gang to their favorite local food spot in Shibuya Station, where another Japanese department store with a basement food hall offered dazzling displays of grilled eel, fried pork, fish salad, sushi, seafood-and-rice wraps, dumplings, mochi cakes, chocolates, and jellied confections.”
Source: My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life
“Told her I would wait as long as it took. She told me not to bother, but I waited anyway.”
Source: Let It Snow
“Told her she was beautiful. Didn't give up when she didn't believe me.”
Source: The Realm of Possibility
“Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.”
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“told me I wasn't enough. it's funny how your weakness was blamed on how strong I am”
“Told me if I did not smell of the fire then I smelled of the frying pan.”
Source: Wolf Hall
“Told me my tape taught them to swear. What about the make-up you allow your 12 year old daughter to wear?”
“Told me not to sell my self short”
Source: Let It Snow
“Told me that when you bury emotions like that, you're only pissing them off ... making them stronger, because you're burying them alive. They don't like that, and one day they'll make sure that you don't like it either.”
Source: Madhouse
“Told me to play it cool
I break the rules, I’m breaking hearts in two
Want me to make the rules or play the fool, it ain’t that hard to choose
Take apart the “do”s and “don’t”s and lose the “won’t”s
I’m getting mine
Mine’s is mine, yours is mine
This is mine, get in line”
“Told often enough that they are the source of sin, women may well begin feeling guilty as they accept the necessity for penance. Taught effectively enough that they are irrelevant to the important processes of society, women begin to feel they are living invisibly.”
“Told reporters Wednesday he can support a pathway to citizenship for some of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and that he actually prefers it to a plan that would create a second-class of citizens through alternative programs.”
“Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?”
“Told with rare honesty, My Accidental Jihad is the story of Krista Bremer's lifelong quest for insight and understanding, a search that leads her out of the Pacific surf to journalism school in North Carolina and through the complex challenges and unexpected joys of a cross-cultural marriage and family. This book is a powerfully personal account of the courage and hard work necessary to open one's heart and keep it that way.”
“Told ya. Lobsterfest is wild.
The Catch”
Source: The Catch
“Told ya you were special.”
Source: The Fallen: The Fallen 1; The Fallen 2; The Fallen 3
“Told you I was going to mess up your make up," he said, a smug grin on his face.”
“Told you not to tell her.” “That's not how I work things. That's not how you build a relationship.” “Build a relationship.” Ryder snorted as he sent the drill whirling again. “You've been reading again.” “Blow me.”
“Told you to get him a bell.”
Source: Twisted Arrangement
“Told you, Rose. Get too close to the sun, and you'll burn." -Edward Elric”
“Told you. Everything sounds better in the car wash.”
Source: Just Listen: A Novel
“Toledo is a place of innovation”
“Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.”
Source: Collected essays
“Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.”
“Tolerance ain't the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it was.”
“Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.”
Source: Pragmatism and the tragic sense of life
“Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.”
“Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.”
“Tolerance and human rights require each other.”
“Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness.
They are signs of strength.”
Source: Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World: Easyread Comfort Edition
“Tolerance and tranquility are two characteristics of true love.”
“Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.”
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
Source: The magic mountain: a novel
“Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by them). For such people tolerance is an act of self-abnegation; although they are convinced that those who differ from them must be wrong, they nevertheless will protect their rights.”
“Tolerance can lead to learning something.”
“Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.”
Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel
“Tolerance cannot seduce the young.”
“Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.”
“Tolerance does explain an escalating pattern of sexual addiction. Tolerance occurs in either fantasy or behavior. For example, an addict using benign fantasies to become sexually aroused may progress to needing sadomasochistic fantasies. Or the addict may switch from fantasies to behavior when the addict reaches a level of tolerance to fantasies alone.”
Source: Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Their Children Partners : Understanding Covert Incest