T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The box dreams not of being opened, but of becoming air.”
Source: The Boxmaker’s Apprentice
“The box is only temporary.”
Source: Poemas
“The box represents the mysterious threshold between reality and make-believe. Is it Reinhart’s? Is it Thistleton’s? Or is it yours? Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you. And if it were opened, would anything be set free? No. For the impenetrable prison with the impossible lock is your own head.”
Source: Night Film
“The box that I’ve built around me is equal to the fear that is within me.”
“The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.”
Source: Count Zero
“The box was nearly finished now, she thought, although it moved so quickly, in the padded claws, that it was difficult to see... Abruptly, it floated free, tumbling end over end, and she sprang for it instinctively, caught it, and went tumbling past the flashing arms, her treasure in her arms.”
Source: Count Zero
“The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.”
“The boxes that are supposed to help us understand one another ultimately wedge us further apart. Even worse is that we rage against the artificial divisions the boxes create, claim that we’re more complex and complicated than how we’re defined by others, and then turn around and stuff the next person we meet into one and tape the lid shut. And then, as if the indignity of life isn’t enough, when a person dies, we cram what’s left of them into one final box for eternity.”
Source: The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried
“The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.”
“The boxing promotion part is really interesting, because I got the chance to do something with my sons. They carry their own weight, and I get a chance to listen to them and see what they have on their minds. I don't have to hand out things to do, and now they have things for me to do. It's an amazing privilege to get the opportunity to work with your children.”
“The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession”
“The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them.”
“The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them. On the one side, we over-intellectualize everything; on the other hand, we are over-mechanized. We can understand the danger of the atomic bomb, but the danger of our misunderstanding the meaning of life is much more serious.”
“The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“The boy and the girl had both known loss, and their grief did not leave them. Sometimes he would find her standing by a window, fingers playing in the beams of sunlight that streamed through the glass, or sitting on the front steps of the orphanage, staring at the stump of the oak next to the drive. Then he would go to her, draw her close, and lead her to the shores of Trivka's pond, where the insects buzzed and the grass grew high and sweet, where old wounds might be forgotten.
She saw sadness in the boy too. Though the woods still welcomed him, he was separate from them now, the bond born into his bones burned away in the same moment that he'd given up his life for her.”
Source: Ruin and Rising
“The boy and the man must be raised to see the possibility of self worth, then meet a few others who provide the vision of a road toward it, then spend a lifetime pursing that worth through action and relationship. One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.”
“The boy can do anything, but to be the star of the World Cup you have got to get to the final and win it!”
“The boy comes home stomping and tells his father:
- I'm really mad at Lucas, Dad! He embarrassed me at school and now I wish him all the worst!
The father then takes him to the yard with a bag of coal and says:
- Son, I want you to throw the pieces of coal on that sheet that is hanging on the clothesline, as if he were Lucas.
The son, not understanding, but excited about the game, does what the father asked.
In the end, the boy says he is happy to have soiled a part of the sheet, as if he were the classmate.
The father then takes him in front of the mirror and to the boy's surprise, his appearance was so black, he could barely see his own eyes. The father then concluded:
- See my son, the evil that we wish to others is like that coal. He could even get some of the sheet dirty, but in fact the biggest loser was the one who threw it.”
“The boy continued to listen to his heart as they crossed the desert. He came to understand its dodges and tricks, and to accept it as it was. He lost his fear, and forgot about his need to go back to the oasis, because, one afternoon, his heart told him that it was happy. "Even though I complain sometimes," it said, "it's because I'm the heart of a person, and people's hearts are that way. People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because, when these things happen, we suffer terribly.”
Source: The Alchemist
“The boy continued with a desperate note. "You may have saved my life, but it is not my life any longer, it is yours.”
Source: Ruby
“The boy could have easily subdued the little girl, but in the end, he stopped and sighed quietly: “If you don’t want to forget, then don’t forget… maybe it’s fate. Even if I will really die by your hand in the future, today I almost killed you by mistake, so we can consider it to be even.”
Source: Zhuyan (With Prequel of Mirror) 朱颜
“The boy detective thinks, The only thing all men have in common with one another is their inherent capacity to make mistakes. He reasons, But there is wonder in the attempt, knowing we are all destined to fall short, but forgoing reason and fear time and time again so deliberately.”
Source: The Boy Detective Fails
“The boy didn't know what a person's "destiny" was.
"It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is."
"At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.”
Source: The Alchemist
“The boy didn't know where he and his family were, other than one name: Mississippi.”
Source: Joe
“The boy didn't know what a Personal Legend was. 'It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their Personal Legend.”
“The boy doesn’t know who I am. He thinks he does. He’s good to talk to—challenges my brain. Seems like he’s always trying to look inside of me. It’s nice. To have someone try to figure you out. He never will, but the effort is nice.”
“The boy doesn’t wink, but he gives me the kind of smile that goes with one.”
Source: All Fall Down
“The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.”
Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:
“The boy had my wolf's eyes.”
Source: Forever
“The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys.”
“The boy has never returned to Poland. I never had a desire; there was nothing to go home to. My family was my home, and they were all gone.”
Source: Auschwitz #34207: The Joe Rubinstein Story
“The boy heaved a sigh. "I would ask to go with you," he said, " but I have to finish my lessons. I so look forward to the day when I know everything. Then I won't have to read any more books or do any more counting." Beatrix smiled. "I don't wish to be discouraging, Rye, but it's not possible to know everything." "Mama does." Rye paused reflectively. "At least, Papa says we mus t pretend she does, because it makes her happy." "Your father," Beatrix informed him with a laugh, " is one of the wisest men I've ever known.”
“The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve pancakes. I must fight the urge to freak.”
Source: Boy Meets Boy
“The boy I love lost inside the man he's become.”
Source: Tokyo Ghost: Complete Edition
“The boy I loved didn't know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus, so he didn't know if any of us existed.”
“The boy in me still carries the memories of those days when I lifted crab pots out of the Colleton River before dawn, when I was shaped by life on the river, part child, part sacristan of tides.”
Source: The Prince of Tides
“The boy in the pearl gray suit could have been Jane's twin. His hair was darker, and his lips were not as full, but he was just as lovely.”
“The boy is a flier."
"How do you know?"
Jeeves coughed, and there was a dreamy look in his eye.
"I was as much astonished as yourself, sir, when I first became aware of the lad's capabilities. I happened to pursue him one morning with the intention of fetching him a clip on the side of the head-”
“The boy is not a killer. He hasn’t the heart to be killer.”
Source: The Goblin Mirror
“The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.”
“The boy is only four," Dad said. "Just a child. And children don't always believe they're seen unless they move. That's all he's doin'. Just movin' so we remember to see him. So we know that in this home, he is here with us.”
“The boy knelt, shoulders bowed, on the sand in the grey of morning, moaning softly, fearfully. Glowing tendrils of energy streamed across the agitated sky, converging high above him in a vortex of brightness. He flung his hands heavenward and a sheet of blinding brilliance descended from the vortex. It enveloped him and from its core a pulsing sphere of light fell, entering his body and almost tearing him apart. He went rigid, screaming to shatter the heavens, his dark eyes bulging from their sockets, his mouth wide in a rictus of agony. Sirius exploded in a burst of silver-blue radiance, as his howl rose to a shriek beyond hearing and endurance. Out of the light and the sound and the anguish, two names imprinted themselves on his mind. One of them, he knew, was his own.
The other floated for an instant above his consciousness like a fugitive white dove in the morning.”
Source: Salomé
“The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election.”
Source: The Violent Bear It Away
“The boy looks into Mugwump eyes blank as obsidian mirrors, pools of black blood, glory holes in a toilet wall closing on the Last Erection.”
Source: Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
“The boy loved his parents more than anything on this Earth. And so he had to kill them.”
Source: The Two O'Clock Boy
“The boy may wrestle, when Night--working Fancy steals him to the arms Of nymph oft wish'd awake, and, 'mid the rage Of the soft tumult, ev'ry turgid cell Spontaneous disembogues its lucid store, Bland and of azure tinct.”
“The boy moths get fooled by a smell?
No, they get fooled by sex. All males do.”
Source: Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Three
“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned:
that love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed".”
“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
Source: City of Bones
“The boy nodded, unperturbed that his father, his mentor, could always find fault, even in success. The boy knew that his beloved father did so only because it forced him to strive for perfection. And in a dangerous galaxy, perfection allowed for survival. The boy loved his father even more for caring enough to criticize.”