All Quotes

A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players, policeman scribbling in pads and making radio calls, witnesses crimping their faces, EMS guys folding equipment.
‐‐ Darin Strauss

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
‐‐ Ellen Glasgow

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
‐‐ George Orwell

A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time.
‐‐ Mencius

A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
‐‐ Billy Strayhorn

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.
‐‐ Jerzy Kosinski

A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner

A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.
‐‐ George III of the United Kingdom

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
‐‐ Charlie Chaplin

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
‐‐ Jack Kevorkian

A transition to clean energy is about making an investment in our future.
‐‐ Gloria Reuben

A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.
‐‐ Joschka Fischer

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
‐‐ John Millington Synge

A translation needs to read convincingly. There's no limit to what can go into it in terms of background research, feeling, or your own interests in form and history. But what should come out is something that reads as convincing English-language text.
‐‐ Jonathan Galassi

A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.
‐‐ Vin Diesel

A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very bad time; having a miserable time, even better.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

A travel-size dry shampoo is the answer to many problems.
‐‐ Aerin Lauder

A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
‐‐ Karl Philipp Moritz

A 'treat' is different from a 'reward,' which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin

A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.
‐‐ Temple Grandin

A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.
‐‐ Georges Rouault

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
‐‐ Robert Henri

'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith is one of my favorites. Even though it doesn't have any monsters or crazy fantasy in it, it's such a raw story, and I can really relate to the characters. I think it's a beautiful story.
‐‐ Amandla Stenberg

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.
‐‐ Jim Woodring

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
‐‐ Saint Basil

A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.
‐‐ Ann Brashares

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
‐‐ Ronald Reagan

A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.
‐‐ Daniel Akaka

A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that's achieved by, if you like, advertising.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.
‐‐ Douglas Leone

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
‐‐ A. Bartlett Giamatti

A trial deals with only a limited amount of information, considering only the evidence which is available and also admissible and which relates directly to the charges on the indictment.
‐‐ Nick Davies

A trial is a powerful vehicle to explain things. It is the most time that anybody spends really thinking about one thing. Unless you are the analyst on the National Security staff that's assigned to monitor Putin, and that's all you do, day in and day out, very few people ever spend the time on a single subject that is spent during trial.
‐‐ David Boies

A trial is not a search for truth. It is a contest and, often, one that produces no winners.
‐‐ Andrew Vachss

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.
‐‐ Bill McCollum

A triathlon is on my bucket list. I started training a long time ago, and my life took a different turn: Things happen; work happens. I will definitely accomplish that at some point!
‐‐ Kate Hudson

A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.
‐‐ Michael Rapaport

A Tribe Called Quest was one of those things where it was supposed to be about growth. When I say 'growth,' I don't just mean with our sound or our product, but Tribe was supposed to grow as individuals.
‐‐ Phife Dawg

A trick I've learned is to eat just a little bit of something that has no carbs and no sugar in it before you go to sleep because it keeps your metabolism going.
‐‐ Kelly Osbourne

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.
‐‐ Michael Baumgartner

A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
‐‐ Daniel Hannan

A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.
‐‐ Jonathan Demme

A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'
‐‐ Tina Brown

A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can't give up everything and you don't want to.
‐‐ Mark Kelly

A trip to the picture framer's, with a selection of prints, is the most joyous outing I can imagine. I've spent more money on framing than on anything else I own.
‐‐ Eleanor Catton