Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toni Morrison

My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.

Tommy Chong

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

Tommy Chong

People didn't relate to me as being Chinese or white, just being a hippie, a long-haired hippie.

Tommy Chong

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

Tom Morello

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

Tom Brown, Jr.

The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.

Todd Akin

I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.

Tina Fey

I think women dress for other women to let them know what their deal is. Because if women were only dressing for men, there would be nothing but Victoria's Secret. There would be no Dior.

Tina Fey

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

Tim Kaine

I say we are climbing out of a ditch and we are climbing up.

Sam Farr

When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.

Tana French

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

Tacitus

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus

This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

Sylvia Plath

There is no life higher than the grasstops

Swami Vivekananda

The Hindus progressed in the subjective sciences.

Samantha Shannon

I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkiens legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.

Rumi

Listen to presences inside poems, Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises.

Tom Peters

Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.

Tom Lehrer

Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air!

Toby Keith

Kids on the Youtube, learning how to be cool.

Toni Braxton

I've always been able to do sprinkles of hip-hop here and there in all my albums, but I'm not sure how my fans are gonna feel about coming out first with something that's so hip-hop.

Thomas Carlyle

History: A distillation of rumor.

Thomas Carlyle

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

Thomas Carlyle

What is all knowledge except recorded experience, and a product of history?

Thomas Carlyle

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

Thomas Carlyle

History is the distillation of rumour.

Thomas Carlyle

History is the new poetry.

Thomas Carlyle

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

Thomas Carlyle

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

Thomas Carlyle

Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

Thomas Carlyle

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

Tony Kushner

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.