All Quotes

Trinidad's language is a fusion of English, African, and French, and so we have our own words and even our own dictionary. Steupse is a common local word, and it's the onomatopoeic word for the sound people make to show disapproval, or to show they are vexed, when they suck their teeth together.
‐‐ Monique Roffey

Trinidadians love speaking their own English; it's full of poetic forms and can be playful and lyrical and comical. Trinidadians are verbal acrobats, and I love being on the island just to hear the people speak.
‐‐ Monique Roffey

Trip Hawkins - and this was the early 1980s - was saying there's going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they're going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game.
‐‐ John Madden

Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.
‐‐ Yelawolf

'Triple Agent' is a different kind of read because it is, at its core, a pure narrative, the story of an intelligence operation that unfolds over the course of a year and then goes badly wrong. There's a lot of 'news' in the book, including an account of drone warfare that is as detailed, in my humble opinion, as any in the open-source arena.
‐‐ Joby Warrick

Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
‐‐ Famke Janssen

Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including paying each other.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing.
‐‐ Johnny Depp

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.
‐‐ Robertson Davies

'Triumph over tragedy' - how pathetic! I think people are generally freaked out that I'm multifaceted. You don't hear people saying, 'Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar - and she's blonde!'
‐‐ Aimee Mullins

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.
‐‐ Cordell Hull

Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.
‐‐ Hans Haacke

'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another.
‐‐ Eli Roth

Trolling taps into people's desire to poke fun, make trouble and cause annoyance.
‐‐ Rob Manuel

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.
‐‐ Jane Smiley

Trophies and medals have never meant much to me. I've had amazing experiences, which let you feel like you've accomplished something.
‐‐ John Krasinski

'Tropic Thunder' is one of my favorite movies of all time. 'Blazing Saddles.' Anything that will get me to smile.
‐‐ John Cena

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.
‐‐ Georges Simenon

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

Trouble follows the Clintons everywhere.
‐‐ Paul Manafort

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
‐‐ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Trouble is, I don't get to play a lot at the moment because I've just signed a contract where I've got to do 200 shows a year in pubs, so the golf's fallen away a bit.
‐‐ Eric Bristow

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
‐‐ Ben Lindsey

Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.
‐‐ Henry J. Kaiser

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
‐‐ Dinah Shore

Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
‐‐ Soren Kierkegaard

Trouble is, we call politics a game, but it isn't one. There is no referee, and the teams make up the rules as they go along. You can't cry foul or offside in politics. Almost anything goes.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken.
‐‐ Akio Toyoda

Trouble shared is trouble halved.
‐‐ Dorothy L. Sayers

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

Trouble with women. Can't do any art and be married if you're in love with your wife.
‐‐ Stephen Vincent Benet

Troubleshooting a wiring problem is a soul-killing experience.
‐‐ Casey Neistat

'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon over the slave girl Briseis nine years into the war. The equivalent scene occurs halfway through my script.
‐‐ David Benioff

Troy was a sweet, good man. We just were never destined to be married. We just didn't have the same values. But I'm not bitter. He taught me how to laugh.
‐‐ Suzanne Pleshette

Truancy rates are directly correlated to low graduation rates.
‐‐ Tony Cardenas

Trudeau claims he's wary about Chinese espionage, but also says there's nothing wrong with Chinese state-owned enterprises buying up as much of Canada's resource sector as it likes.
‐‐ Terry Glavin

Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.
‐‐ Brian Mulroney

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
‐‐ Pauline Phillips

True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance. From that point on, the steady stream of unconditional love and support we've expected from them all our lives has to flow both ways.
‐‐ Lynn Coady

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.
‐‐ Henry Cabot Lodge

True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere - a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world.
‐‐ Maurice Saatchi

True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.
‐‐ Henry Cabot Lodge

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
‐‐ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
‐‐ Jose Bergamin

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.
‐‐ Angel Haze

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
‐‐ Auguste Rodin

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.
‐‐ Barton Booth