T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.”
“The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.”
“The crafting of meals is somewhat spiritual in itself. It teaches us to cook with the best ingredients to render a flavor that speaks to how we feel about one another. Food in Black culture is a conduit of communication. A feeling. A connection.”
Source: Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own
“The Crafts which require the most Time intraining or most Ingenuityand Industry must necessarily be the best paid.”
“The Crafty Cockney had a picture of the owner dressed up as a copper, so I brought it home, wore it on TV and the name just stuck.”
“The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.”
“The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.”
Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood
“The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child in repressing his spirits and courage, paralyzing the understanding, and that without producing indignation, but only fear and obedience, and even much sympathy with his tyranny, - is a familiar fact explained to the child when he becomes a man, only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forma, of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth.”
“The crappy yet popular way to measure the quality of your relationship is how much money you throw at each other.”
“The crash did not cause the Depression: that was part of a far broader malaise. What it did was expose the weaknesses that underpinned the confidence and optimism of the 1920s - poor distribution of income, a weak banking structure and insufficient regulations, the economy's dependence on new consumer goods, the over-extension of industry and the Government's blind belief that promoting business interests would make America uniformly prosperous.”
Source: Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties
“The crash, he believed, had been a lancet applied to an abscess. A good bleeding was necessary to do away with the swelling so that the market could find its true bottom and rebuild on solid foundations.”
Source: Trust
“The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn't understand and couldn't afford.”
“The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.”
“The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.”
“the crashing distance in the waves: formless and curving into the Earth, reaching for the wide basin of the sky. The ocean’s longing to embrace – not understanding stillness or the way others might be tied to the ground.”
Source: Lahana
“The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.”
Source: Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not
“The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.”
“The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every era of his existence and his history, the human being has associated colour with his joys, his actions and his pleasures.”
“The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).”
“The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.”
“The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.”
“The craving for security has conditioned the society to perceive education not as an endeavor of the mind, rather as a preprogrammed task created by some sophisticated, illusory structure known as the “system of education”. Education means breaking free from the manacles of limitations put forward by primitive ignorance. Yet today’s fake education is gloriously founded upon the primordial element of “limitation”. And the authorities of this so-called education often take pride in their ship shape structure where they manufacture dumb manikins.”
“The craving for the thing is rarely met by the satisfaction of getting it. And so we crave more. And the cycle repeats. We are encouraged to want what will only make us want more.
We are, in short, encouraged to be addicts.”
Source: Notes on a Nervous Planet
“The craving to be understood may in the end be merest egoism.”
Source: Aphorisms
“The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.”
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1936-1944, The mirror of relationship
“The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?”
“The craving to touch her is like an itch I can't scratch.”
Source: Destiny Rising
“The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.”
“The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.”
“The crazed man, after he was satisfied, placed his hands around the throat of the helpless Irish girl and squeezed powerfully. He continued his attack, until he was certain Beverley was dead. He turned his back to the wall and masturbated, squealing in delight when he was done. He then composed himself, straightened his clothes, and ascended the steps. Hopefully, he thought, the tide would wash away the body before morning.”
Source: Precarious Infatuations
“The craziest and meanest thing death ever did was to snatch life away from those who were at their edge of breakthrough.”
Source: Sips And Little Portions
“The craziest of all political systems, the unique leader state, has found its deserved end. History will note for eternity that the German people were not able on their own initiative to shake off the yoke of the National Socialists. The victory of the Americans, English, and Russians was a necessary occurrence to destroy the National Socialists' delusions and plans for world domination.”
“The craziest thing about fashion people in general, not just designers, is that it's always, "Oh my God, you lost weight! I love your hair!" Or "Oh, you're so tan!" Or, "You're so skinny! I love your shoes!" These are fashion icebreakers. Everyone's always looking at each other.”
“The craziest thing about TV directing is I turned in a version, and then they made their final changes - so I don't know what they are. So I'm like, "Ooo, I'm dying to see the final print."”
“The craziest thing I did to get a guy to notice me was going out with his best friend. It worked - he did notice me - but I don't recommend it.”
“The craziest thing I've done getting over love is skydiving. I had a really upsetting breakup. When I broke up with my boyfriend I needed to like do something different and so I actually went skydiving to turn over a new page.”
“The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.”
“The craziest thing is that the song ["My President"] is real but you can still hear it in the club.”
“The craziest thing is walking down the streets of New York and people recognizing me and asking for my photo. It has been pretty wild. I am used to getting spotted in ski towns, but I never thought it would happen in a place like this.”
“The craziest, most selfish act is to commit suicide. When you kill yourself, you kill others.”
“The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.”
“The Crazy feeling builds and builds. It never stops, it never ends, there is no relief.”
Source: The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows
“The crazy guy may have pulled the trigger, but the government gave him the gun.”
“The Crazy Mother’s Guide To Raising Exceptional Children Is For All Parents Who Have Days When They Want To Run Away And Join The Circus.
– Sonia D. Hebdon”
Source: The Crazy Mother's Guide To Raising Exceptional Children: An Aussie Mum's First Hand Experience Parenting Children Who Have Autism Spectrum Disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder.
“The crazy ones always get the good ones.”
“The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.”
“The crazy people of the world...shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little victories, then ordinary people have to. They have to try, at least.”
“The crazy thing about it is she'd take him back, but the fool in him that walked out is the fool who just won't ask.”
“The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year