Top 100 T For Quotes
#1. I came from a very loving home, had a happy life with no great aspirations, but going to the seminary changed me. There was a chunk of my childhood missing. Once I'd realised it wasn't for me, I still felt a tremendous pressure to continue for fear of letting everybody down.
Johnny Vegas
#2. Forgiveness isn't for the person making the error. It's for the person wronged. It's so you can move on without the pain, anguish, resentment. You need to forgive and mean it. Only then will you be able to move on.
Leddy Harper
#3. I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.
Loretta Lynn
#4. If it wasn't for my trainer - who comes looking for me three times a week before 7 A.M. - I wouldn't get my butt out of bed and into the gym. There are many mornings when I think about faking a sprained ankle, but I just put it out of my head and make myself go.
Sherri Shepherd
#5. I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person who cares about kids and who cares about truth and I am guided by my own instincts, and trust them.
Lois Lowry
#6. If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
Johnny Carson
#7. Someone told me "stop telling everybody that the United States government is Terrorist and this country has been made by blood over millions of dead-bodies." I was thinking: "wasn't for the same reason I have been kicked out from Iran?
Kambiz Shabankareh
#8. I rather like the fact that women are so into vampires though. I suppose if it wasn't for Sparkly the neighborhood vampire that would not have been possible.
Cyma Rizwaan Khan
#9. Why do you gotta be going somewhere? Seems like it should be enough that we had nachos. And we got meaningful jobs. We catch bad guys. If it wasn't for us, there'd be vampires and all kinds of shit running around loose.
Janet Evanovich
#10. It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
Laura Innes
#11. If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
Rita Mae Brown
#12. The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.
Nick Flynn
#13. I was playing video games LONG before I ever thought about playing football. If it wasn't for my parents making sure that I got outside every now and then as a child, I probably would've pursued some sort of tech path.
Chris Kluwe
#14. I wanted you to watch, so I stomped around the room to wake you before I got in the shower. Didn't you wonder why the light was on? It wasn't for me, I can see in the dark. And then I kept the water cold so the glass wouldn't fog.
Jeaniene Frost
#15. If you're looking for a story about nice people doing nice things, this isn't for you. You will be burdened with an unreliable narrator who will disappoint and repel you at every turn.
Still with me?
Too bad for you.
I can't wait to break your heart.
Christopher Buehlman
#16. Listen up, Little Miss Fun Hater. Off the record, if it wasn't for our school's strict but smarmy anti-bullying laws, I would bitch-slap you into next summer.
G.G. Silverman
#17. Sobriety isn't for cowards, Chief Inspector. Whatever you might think of an alcoholic, to get sober, really sober demands great honesty, and that demands great courage. Stopping drinking's the easy part. Then we have to face ourselves. Our demons. How many people are willing to do that?
Louise Penny
#18. Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.
John Podhoretz
#19. You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling at the end of the garden, dum dum, dum dum, annoys me! Why is Christianity so insistent and so sad?
Virginia Woolf
#20. If it wasn't for stress, I'd have no energy at all.
Sheri Richey
#21. They stopped next at a bookstore. "Oh, what a delicious smell of new books!" said Ellen, as they entered. "Mamma, if it wasn't for one thing, I should say I never was so happy in my life.
Susan Bogert Warner
#22. If it wasn't for coffee, I'd have no discernible personality at all.
David Letterman
#23. I guess the rules aren't for everyone.
David Ortiz
#24. A lot of times I feel I probably would have ended up in a mental hospital if it weren't for the structure that 'Bones' gave me.
Eric Millegan
#25. I don't for one moment believe that these folks believe that it is better for an infant or a toddler to be in day care than to be home with Mom. I do believe that these folks feel guilty for not wanting to be at home, so they devise a new reality to compensate for their uncomfortable feelings.
Laura Schlessinger
#26. I wish I could say I didn't owe anything to anyone. But the truth is, I wouldn't be standing here if it wasn't for the courage and support of each and every one of you. I hope I can be as good a leader as we've had in the past and as good as you deserve.
Jack O'Neill
#27. I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind
indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.
Katherine Anne Porter
#28. When people ask if I'm going to be sad that 'The Office' is over, they don't even understand the depth of that question for me. It's an era of my life. No one would have known my name if it wasn't for the show.
John Krasinski
#29. If it weren't for Phoenician blinds, it'd be curtains for all of us.
Tom Robbins
#31. Roses are reddish
Violets are bluish
If it weren't for Christmas
We'd all be Jewish.
Benny Hill
#32. Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.
Abbie Hoffman
#33. It isn't for the faint of heart, nor is it ever to be taken lightly. Real love is heartcore.
Jeff Brown
#34. Sunny days wouldn't be special, if it wasn't for rain. Joy wouldn't feel so good, if it wasn't for pain. Death gotta be easy, 'cause life is hard; It'll leave you physically, mentally, and emotionally scarred.
Curtis Jackson
#35. I wouldn't do the music thing if it weren't for my brother, who's a producer. He understands me and helps my vision come to life.
Debby Ryan
#36. Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#37. Marriage isn't for the weak or lazy. It's work, and it should be. What would be the point otherwise?
J.D. Robb
#38. Funerals aren't for the dead. They're for the living.
Gavin Extence
#39. Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
Peter Ustinov
#40. If it weren't for love, the suffering we experience wouldn't be worth it. If it weren't for the suffering, we wouldn't cherish the good things life gives us. Sometimes it'll seem as though life only knocks you down, but you have to learn to pick yourself up and fight back.
Claire Contreras
#41. You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.
Rush Limbaugh
#42. There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement.
Robert Breault
#43. I would not have survived that dark time if it weren't for Cloudtail. He gave me another destiny, and I knew that no matter what I looked like, I would be all right. As long as Cloudtail loved me, I was no longer Lostface, but Brightheart.
Erin Hunter
#44. Purple and orange weren't two colors Ruby would ever put together and she couldn't for the life f her understand how this Lord God of theirs could have come up with the combination, but He had, and there they were in the sky outside the Winnebago's windshield.
Amy Wallen
#45. All the time she's silent. All the women were silent except the white one talking to Trent. If it wasn't for the red, green and gold and that the skirts are often denim, I'd think I was surrounded by Muslim women.
Marlon James
#46. No one was quite sure how to treat this mourning that wasn't for a death.
M.L. Stedman
#47. She could have been an interior decorator, a good one, too, if it wasn't for the pressing demands of so on and so forth.
Ellen Raskin
#48. Don't go taking that gospel stuff seriously. It's nice to clean you out now and then, but it ain't for real. It's like bad whiskey. Run through you fast and leave you with pain.
Dorothy Allison
#49. At least it would have been perfect, if it wasn't for my mother.
Heather James
#50. I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely a direct reflection of what 'Show Boat' made possible.
Harold Prince
#51. If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Phyllis Diller
#52. I love the press; I even like the people that don't like me. If it wasn't for those people, no one would know who I was and I wouldn't have a gig.
Criss Angel
#53. The cruising life isn't for all of us. It isn't even for most
of us, but it is for some of us, and for a few of us it is essential to survival.
Jim Trefethen
#54. So wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's always Pooh and Me.
"What would I do?" I said to Pooh,
"If it wasn't for you," and Pooh said to me: "True,
It isn't much fun for One, but Two
Can stick together," says Pooh, says he.
"That's how it is," says Pooh.
A.A. Milne
#55. To be honest, I don't mind talking about my experiences in life, but details aren't for everyone.
Ansel Elgort
#56. I loved the bootcamp and the training. It was the actual Navy and the structure after it that I realized wasn't for me because they're building soldiers. It's a system, and you can't really stick out; you can't be the oddball out in the military.
Kiesza
#57. We owe a lot to Thomas Edison-if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.
Milton Berle
#58. If it wasn't for insomnia, I'd never get anything done.
Andrew Cormier
#59. We're no longer a small business; we're a large organization spread around the world. I can't imagine Netscape growing as fast as it has if it weren't for the way we use our products.
Jim Barksdale
#60. Television is a pretty great job, to begin with, and I wouldn't have anything, if it weren't for the jobs that I've had in the past that have built up to that
Zachary Levi
#61. The biggest problem I have doing my acting is having to interact with other people. I think if it wasn't for my wife and my kids, I'd probably be a hermit.
John Gordon Sinclair
#62. Oh, my poor, sweet cousin from Oklahoma," Tonya said, shaking her head. "You, my dear, are in big trouble." "I am?" Kylie asked, turning to her friend, wearing her panic all over her face. "You're in love. And as I've said before, this shit ain't for amateurs.
Caisey Quinn
#63. Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got into music. That Louis Jordan changed everything and made him want to become a musician.
Robbie Robertson
#64. People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.
Betty White
#65. 'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'
Mary Schmich
#66. Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.
Henny Youngman
#67. I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer.
Richard Russo
#68. My boyfriend always says that if it weren't for him I'd probably get rid of my apartment and live nowhere, and he's right.
Cassandra Clare
#69. When I was 16, I spent a year pushing trollies around a car park, and that wasn't fun. I didn't love working in a supermarket; it wasn't for me. It is for some people, and that's totally cool.
James Bay
#71. If it weren't for all the setbacks and problems of life, there would be nothing to look forward to.
Michael Atencio
#72. It's very dangerous to believe people, I haven't for years.
Miss Marple from A Sleeping Murder.
Agatha Christie
#73. I did an internship with Mike (Shanahan) and the Redskins last summer and I knew after a week and a half that it wasn't for me. I think I knew that going in, but I wanted to make sure.
Terrell Davis
#74. I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.
Brian Lamb
#75. I love you more than I love life, because if it weren't for you, there wouldn't be as much in it for me.
Lisa De Jong
#76. If Cosmic Ordering isn't for you, shape yourself so it is.
Stephen Richards
#77. Hollywood's schizophrenia over guns is matched only by their attitude toward taxes. Ever wonder why they film in Vancouver so often? It ain't for the beaches, I can tell you.
Greg Gutfeld
#78. At least, I'm very happy that it's going out on DVD because if it wasn't for the fans who signed this petition and were really ongoing about how they loved it, we wouldn't see this DVD right now.
Caroline Dhavernas
#79. What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you. There ain't nothing as precious to me ... There ain't nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else
Lorraine Hansberry
#80. Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.
David Joseph Cribbin
#81. If it weren't for the Chicagos and Detroits and Toledos, the terrible things would spread out across the whole country and make trouble for everybody else. Such places were collectors of badness in the way hospitals were collectors of the sick and damaged.
Stephen Dobyns
#83. The full face of darkness is midnight, and it hovers over Mississippi. It never smiles or laughs, shows its teeth, only its frown. If it weren't for stars and its moon glowing, no one would ever look its way.
Albert French
#84. If it weren't for acid, you might not have an IPod, and you definitely would not have some of the best music in your IPod.
Bill Maher
#85. I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it wasn't for hiphop they'd still be living in that. So when I think of hiphop, I think hiphop saves lifes, hiphop changes lives.
Jon Connor
#86. Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.
Frank Gifford
#87. Roses are red and violets are blue, That played-out shit isn't for you. I got your love letter right here in my eyes. If you look deep enough, you'll see through the lies.
Wendy Higgins
#88. Art is a spiritual practice. If it weren't for art, I'd have given up on God a long time ago. This cathedral though....is very convincing.
Janice Macleod
#89. Matrimony and firefighting. They ain't for cowards.
Lois Greiman
#90. It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity, faith and security.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#91. I may have destroyed world culture, but MTV wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for me.
George Lois
#92. If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother.
Terry Pratchett
#93. There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Robert Orben
#94. Nature wasn't for us to rise above. It was for us to sink into; to sleep upon and go bootless, and in silent protest to walk the finest rugs and fanciest tile and leave our naked, muddy footprints as the signatures of new beginnings.
Kim Heacox
#95. And all of it was a prime example of why I wasn't jumping on board the marriage band wagon just yet. My dad had struck out three times and my mom twice when she had finally decided marriage wasn't for her when I was twelve and packed up to get a condo in the city.
Tara Sivec
#96. If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.
Lisa Scottoline
#98. People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.
Peg Bracken
#99. People can burn and beat love out of you. They really can kill it, and it's not your fault you don't feel it anymore, and how liberating it is to finally realize that. Love isn't for better or for worse, through thick or thin. It damn well shouldn't be.
Patricia Cornwell
#100. If at first you don't succeed, then drag racing isn't for you.
Christopher Titus
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