T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“TOMS is no longer a shoe company... we're a one-for-one company.”
“Tomás Estrada Palma was a Cuban-born American citizen, who was a moderate and had worked with José Martí in New York. He became the leader of the Cuban Revolutionary Party after Marti’s death. On December 31, 1901, Tomás Estrada Palma was duly elected to become the first President of Cuba. Estrada Palma and the Cuban Congress assumed governance on May 20, 1902, which then became the official birthdate of the Cuban Republic.
In 1906, Estrada Palma appealed to the United States to intervene in the revolt that threatened his second term. As Secretary of War during the Roosevelt administration, William Howard Taft was sent to Cuba, after having been the first civilian Governor-General of the Philippines. For the short period of time from September 29, 1906, until October 13, 1906, Taft was the Provisional Governor of Cuba. During this time, 5,600 U.S. Army troops were sent to Cuba to reassert American authority, giving Taft the muscle to set up another provisional government. Later, on March 4, 1909, Taft was elected the 27th President of the United States.”
“Tomé asiento a su lado y no sé por qué -está bien, tal vez sí sé por qué- mis ojos viajaron hacia su pecho desnudo, haciendo que mi mirada recorriera los músculos marcados...
-Deja de mirarme así-murmuró...”
Source: La conexión
“Tom’s aunt Georgie spoke to me first, and Tom found me through her. At the time, I didn’t actually think Tom was a big enough character to carry a story. If it had to be anyone from Saving Francesca, I thought, it would be Will Trombal or Tara. But the line in Francesca, ‘I want to be the first male in the Mackee family to reach 40 and still have a liver’ stuck with me, and in the end, Tom has been one of the biggest surprises. I’m glad I didn’t kick him out of my head.”
“Ton amour est comme la lune, il me déprive d'oxygène à chaque fois je pense à toi.
Tu es partout mon chéri. Dans mes pensées, mes écritures et mes peintures.
Je t'aime, et je n'oserai jamais à aimer une autre personne de telle façon que je t'aime.”
“Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.”
“Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal musical means during the period from 1600 to 1900 for arousing and channeling desire.”
Source: Reading Music: Selected Essays
“Tonally, there was no discussion; I just don’t know any other way to do it. I don’t want to make people feel bad, and I don’t want to make their problems into a joke. I do love telling people when they’re right and wrong, but for the most part, it was always going to be about real fights where people have a real difference of opinion and a real dispute. I want to make jokes, but I also want to make a decision that is fair.”
“Tone can be as important as text.”
“Tone has the living soul.”
“Tone is a very difficult thing. You can't write tone, I don't think. You can try - you certainly try. I write too, so I know I'm trying desperately to communicate to whoever's going to direct my pieces, the way I see the humor. But it's very difficult.”
“Tone is an interesting question because part of the inspiration of looking to song is that Geisel himself - when you think about his animated version of The Grinch - embraced the idea of using songs in unconventional ways, as part of conveying a narrative. The use of music, in this film, is very unconventional, which I love.”
“Tone is everything in TV.”
“Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.”
“Tone is the hardest part of saying no.”
Source: Put That in Writing
“tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play— I tell you, Dorian, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.”
Source: Beethoven: The Man and the Artist
“Tongue and expression plays a big role in twisting the words and make the life hell.”
“Tongue and hand tied. It cut me off, trapped and held me within my own silent dark word tomb.”
Source: Prismatic Prose: A Genre Bending Anthology
“Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman.”
“Tongues are a miraculous manifestation of being filled with the Holy Ghost.”
“Tongues I'll hang on every tree
That shall civil sayings show. . . .”
Source: Poems and Plays
“Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
“Tongues of Fire
This is what's become of us: I am
confused by mourning, and he is the sun
that goes to sleep on top of me, undone
by moonrise. Lover, all I speak is iambs
and slant rhyme. That devil lamb
of light called hope is sacrificed and none
too pleased with having lost its bleat. The stone
has rolled away but God's not gone and damn
it, I'm no fan of the weather here, it rains
too often, bones of doves and angel down
until the ground stains red with sighs and blood.
It is wet and cold. Will you explain
again the why of all there is and how
he caught me in the act, discovering God?”
Source: Heaven
“Tongues wrangled dark at a man.
He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone.
In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.”
Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960
“Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.””
“Toni hears voices," said Trapp. "But who is this Dr. Ellsworth to tell her she's a schizophrenic? Maybe she just perceives better than the rest of us. Maybe the voices she hears are just uncommunicated ideas, floating free.”
Source: The Cardturner
“Toni Morrison is challenged regularly because she is a black author who writes about the real world. She speaks with so much knowledge about black issues she can't be accused of creating these (issues). People find these issues threatening.”
“Toni Morrison’s sentences were like rivers with murky bottoms. They didn’t obey the rules I was learning in school. When I stepped in, I couldn’t see my feet; I retreated back to the shore.”
Source: How We Fight For Our Lives
“Toni Morrison said, 'The function of freedom is to free someone else,' and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else.”
Source: Bird by Bird
“Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?”
“Toni Morrison seems to have a lot of faith in people - that's what I mean by gentle power.”
“Toni’s greatness as a novelist had a lot to do with her skill—her great ability—to show how we mucked up the landscape, not just in the world, but in ourselves. Slavery was one way we mucked it up, of course, and the enormous wound at the center of “Beloved” (1988) has to do with how slavery not only killed bodies, but made a mess of our minds, thus creating a particularly American way of thinking.”
“Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.”
“Toni smiles. Her eyes are all crinkled and sparkly and Mary finds it very difficult to look away. She isn’t quite sure what to do and tugs her thumbs into the belt loops of her jeans just to do something with her hands and Toni is still smiling at her.”
Source: Long Overdue
“Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.”
“Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.”
“Tonight, according to her astronomy notebook (#4 of her notebooks, which were even rarer and harder to come by than actual books, according to Gothel), the moon would be new, meaning not there at all; the sky would be black but for the stars. And in a few days the floating lights would appear.
They came at the same time every year. Even when it was cloudy, Rapunzel could see the telltale pinprick glows of their presence, gold and pink against the clouds. Which meant they were of the earth; below the moon and stars. How far up the lights floated she could never tell; they drifted into indifference when her eyes could no longer make them out against their sparkling stellar counterparts. Whether they were a natural phenomenon like rain (that went the wrong way) or some sort of magma or volcanic spew (Book #8: Naturalis Historia by Pliny the Elder, Complete with Letters and Notes by Pliny the Younger-- including, of course, the Elder's death by volcano), or something else entirely (pixies? Titans?), Rapunzel had no idea. She only knew that they came every year on what she had decided was her birthday.
This year she would go see what they were. Herself.”
Source: What Once Was Mine
“Tonight, after we're done with the bank, we're going to finish this. Somewhere it's just the two of us. But if I keep kissing you right now, I'm not going to have enough blodd left in my brain to keep you safe at the bank.”
Source: Tempted into Danger
“Tonight, an old ache awakens within me,
a yearning that threads through my veins like a distant song.
I am consumed by a passion that seizes every corner of my soul,
an urgent fire that longs to be stoked by your touch.
The thought of you ignites a blaze that refuses to be contained,
a hunger for the nights we could share, where our bodies speak the language of longing,
and every moment is a tender exploration of desire.
I feel us entwined already,
as if our souls have danced together before.
Without you, I wander in a sea of echoes,
lost in the silent spaces where your presence should be.
You are not just a lover; you are the very pulse of my heart.
In your embrace, I find a completeness that words cannot capture,
a connection that feels ancient and profound—
a bond that burns fiercely, beautifully, even as it breaks my heart.
Please, let us come together soon.
I am aching with a fervor that only you can soothe,
burning with a passion that is both a comfort and a torment,
an insatiable need to be near you,
to lose myself in the warmth of our union.
All I desire is to be with you,
to surrender to the depth of our shared longing,
for you are the world to me,
the fire that lights my darkest nights.”
“Tonight, can we just pretend you want me too?”
Source: Fragments of a Reflection: Short Stories & Poetry
“Tonight, Dunadhar Castle is ours.”
Source: Trashy Romance Novel
“Tonight go to sleep as though your whole past has been dropped. Die to the past. And in the morning wake up as a new man in a new morning. Don't let the same one who went to bed get up. Let him go to sleep for good. Let the one who is ever-new and ever-fresh awake instead.”
“Tonight, he began to think of words, words came from some well in him, lists of words that arranged themselves into poems, "The Death Mask," "The Fairfax Wall," "A Number of Cats." He could hear, or feel, or even almost see, the patterns made by a voice he didn't yet know, but which was his own. The poems were not careful observations, nor yet incantations, nor yet reflections on life and death, though they had elements of all these. He added another, "Cats' Cradle," as he saw he had things to say which he could say about the way shapes came and made themselves. Tomorrow he would buy a new notebook and write them down. Tonight he would write down enough, the mnemonics.
He had time to feel the strangeness of before and after; an hour ago there had been no poems, and now they came like rain and were real.”
Source: Possession
“Tonight, he'd looked broken. She'd been afraid to touch him, as if one brush of skin would send him shattering into a million pieces. But then she had, and he'd clung to her as if he'd been afraid to let go. Some people might see it as weakness, but she didn't. She knew how it felt to have life yank the rug out from under you. She knew what it meant to need someone to hold you, to share the weight of the world for a minute. For a second. She would have held him all night. And then her father had shown up to act like Detective Dickhead. As usual.”
Source: Sacrifice
“Tonight he would do anything in the world for her.
Tomorrow he would begin to set her free.”
Source: The Temporary Wife
“Tonight, hell sends an angel bearing gifts...”
Source: The Crow
“Tonight, her dress was designed to mimic the flower trellis in her mother's garden, where she'd saved Marisol's wedding. But no one looking at her would think about that. The base of Evangeline's bodice was nude silk, making her look as if she were wrapped in nothing but the crisscrossing cream-velvet ribbons that went to her hips. There, pastel flowers began to appear, growing denser until every inch of her lower skirts were covered in a brilliant clash of silk violets, jewelled peonies, tulle lilies, curling vines, and sprays of gold crawling paisleys.”
Source: Once Upon a Broken Heart
“Tonight his father had caught up, carrying all the horrors of hell with him. His mother could no longer protect him—hide him—and now his father‟s wrath would fall on him. He ran across the fields and through the forest, his bare feet carrying him as fast as they could go, aching and bleeding into the night. He could feel his father‟s eyes on him and his stinking breath filling Raven‟s nostrils as he rushed toward the only place he had ever found safe. He sobbed, choking on his grief and his frustration—the horrible guilt of carrying all the anger from his father into their house making him sick and afraid. He ran with lungs and muscles burning from strain, throwing himself through the doors of the castle when he reached them and only then chancing to look back the way he‟d come.”
Source: Eyes Like Blue Fire
“Tonight, I am a Perfect Girl, because I had a perfect night. And it ended with three perfect kisses. Three. What a lucky number.”
Source: Viola in Reel Life