T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The desk in front of Frasier was littered with sketchbooks and colored pencils. Drawing was a medium he'd taken up later in life and all he drew was birds, over and over, usually in the heat of the day when it was too hot to be in the garden. The wall in front of him was covered in sketches of the dellawisps, so many of them the papers overlapped, forming a decoupage of turquoise birds.”
Source: Other Birds: A Novel
“The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.”
Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
“The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.”
“The desolate rocky terrain, the bone-chilling dampness, the low moaning carried by the wind—they seemed too real to be just a dream. Real, and frightening. Somehow I had entered another world. I’d heard that eating pizza before bedtime can cause nightmares, but I didn’t think it could transport a person.”
“The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.”
“The Desoto Solar Farm had exploding electrical fuse problems by the time President Obama opened it.”
“The Desoto Solar Farm had gone on fire several weeks earlier. President Obama opened it and was photographed standing in a field of non-functional solar modules!”
“The Desoto Solar Farm is the only place I have found unmarked hollow metal tubes in fuse holders! The electrical diagrams showed them as 100 amp fuses.”
“The Desoto Solar Farm launch was one of the most boring days of my life! We were standing around in the Florida heat for hours waiting for President Obama to show up!”
“The Desoto Solar Farm was known to be dangerous by the time President Obama opened it.”
“The Desoto Solar Farm was known to be dangerously faulty the day President Obama launched it.”
“The DeSoto Solar Farm was the most dangerous electrical equipment I ever worked on in my career as a Chartered Electrical Engineer.”
“The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.”
“The despair of staying proved greater than the fear of going.”
Source: Canyon Solitude: A Woman's Solo River Journey Through the Grand Canyon
“The despairing soul is a rebel.”
Source: Where I've Been, and where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose
“The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.”
“The desperate boredom of the wealthy, that he often spoke of to Anne. It tended to destroy rather than create. And it could lead to crime as easily as privation.”
Source: Strangers on a Train
“The desperate hope that the patient will be healed... That's the last treatment.”
“The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.”
Source: Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth
“The desperate piercing scream of horror echoed far above the sharpened tops of the trees wrapped in thin obsidian-transparent mist, and I startled jerkily, tripping again, and almost collapsed onto the cold moist ground.”
Source: Nightmarish Sacrifice
“The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.”
“The desperate urgency to preserve human consciousness at any cost had been replaced by a more pragmatic understanding of the situation that prioritized practical outcomes over abstract principles.”
Source: Animal Control
“The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.”
Source: Vanishing Acts
“The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.”
“The desperation in his voice was misplaced and as his eyes danced over my face I knew he was just as broken as I was. That kiss, those caresses—the feeling of his skin against mine had shattered our perfect friendship. There was no turning back now; having him was the only thing that would make me whole.”
Source: Flawed Perfection
“The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish.”
“The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.”
Source: Trylle: The Complete Trilogy
“The despicable North Korean attack in Rangoon deprived us of trusted advisers and friends. So many of those who died had won admirers in America as they studied with us or guided us with their counsel. I personally recall the wisdom and composure of Foreign Minister Lee, with whom I met in Washington just a few short months ago. To the families and countrymen of all those who were lost, America expresses its deep sorrow.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot -- the sail he has seen.”
Source: Our Lady of the Flowers
“The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.”
Source: J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings
“The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.”
“The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.”
“The dessert is a chocolate fondue. Make it on a clear day- cloudy weather dims the gloss on the melted chocolate- with seventy percent dark chocolate, butter, a little almond oil, double cream added at the very last minute, heated gently over a burner. Skewer pieces of cake or fruit and dip into the chocolate mixture. I have all their favorites here tonight, though only the gâteau de savoie is meant for dipping. Caro claims she cannot eat another thing, but takes two slices of the dark-and-white chocolate roulade bicolore.”
Source: Chocolat
“The dessert plates were arranged with delicate biscuits and pineapple cream served in cunning little glazed pots.
Sir Ross introduced a new topic of conversation concerning some recently proposed amendments to the Poor Law, which both he and Gentry supported. Surprisingly, Sophia offered her own opinions on the subject, and the men listened attentively. Lottie tried to conceal her astonishment, for she had been taught for years that a proper woman should never express her opinions in mixed company. Certainly she should say nothing about politics, an inflammatory subject that only men were qualified to debate. And yet here was a man as distinguished as Sir Ross seeming to find nothing wrong in his wife's speaking her mind. Nor did Gentry seem displeased by his sister's outspokenness.
Perhaps Gentry would allow her the same freedom. With that pleasant thought in her mind, Lottie consumed her pineapple cream, a rich, silky custard with a tangy flavor. Upon reaching the bottom of the pot, she thought longingly of how nice it would be to have another. However, good manners and the fear of appearing gluttonous made it unthinkable to request seconds.
Noticing the wistful glance Lottie gave her empty dish, Gentry laughed softly and slid his own untouched dessert to her plate. "You have even more of a taste for sweets than little Amelia," he murmured in her ear. His warm breath caused the hair on the back of her neck to rise.
"We didn't have desserts at school," she said with a sheepish smile.
He took his napkin and dabbed gently at the corner of her mouth. "I can see that I'll have a devil of a time trying to compensate for all the things you were deprived of. I suppose you'll want sweets with every meal now."
Pausing in the act of lifting her spoon, Lottie stared into the warm blue eyes so close to hers, and suddenly she felt wreathed in heat. Ridiculous, that all he had to do was speak with that caressing note in his voice, and she could be so thoroughly undone.”
Source: Worth Any Price
“The dessert was tartufo, a dark chocolate gelato dusted with cocoa.
Eighty-five percent of the world's chocolate is made from the common or garden-variety Forastero cocoa bean. About 10 percent is made from the finer, more subtle Trinitario bean. And less than 5 percent is made from the rare, aromatic Criollo bean, which is found only in the remotest regions of Colombia and Venezuela. These beans are so sought after that, pound for pound, they can command prices many times higher than the other local crop, cocaine. Having been fermented, shipped, lightly roasted and finally milled to a thickness of about fifteen microns, the beans are finally cooked into tablets, even a tiny crumb of which, placed on the tongue, explodes with flavor as it melts.
A tartufo is a chocolate gelato shaped to look like a truffle, but it is an appropriate name for other reasons, too. Made from egg yolk, sugar, a little milk, and plenty of the finest Criollo chocolate, with a buried kick of chile, Bruno's tartufo was as richly sensual and overpowering as the fungus from which it took its name---and even more aphrodisiac.”
Source: The Food of Love
“The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.”
Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot
“The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.”
“The destination is fulfilling when the path is authentically your own; find the courage and forge your own path; your essence is at stake”
“The destination is not the journey. The destination is the person you choose to enjoy the journey with.”
“The destination is only fulfilling when the path is your own; find the courage to blaze your own path, your true expression of essence is at stake.”
“The destination lies in the dream.”
“The destination manifests through the one who gives their life to the journey.”
Source: When Call The People: My World My Responsibility
“The destination of life is this eternal moment.”
Source: In My Own Way: An Autobiography
“The destination of success is across the rivers of struggle and stress, build a boat to float. Get some passion, get some dreams.”
Source: Big Voice Within
“The destination of the deportation is annihilation.”
“The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to walk erect or to be dragged complaining through the dust.”
Source: Pompeii
“The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in time, and to transmit the results to others.”
“The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western Europe. I fervently hope that my pursuit, as a Japanese, of literature and culture will, in some small measure, repay Western Europe for the light it has shed upon the human condition.”
“The destination you think is going to make you happy, doesn't.”
“The destination you think is going to make you happy, doesn't. I always find myself thinking, "I'm getting ready right now, but when I get to the party it's going to be great!" Once at the party, I find myself going, "Man, can't wait to get in bed tonight. I'm pooped." It's like that with my career, too.”