Quotations

"Some of the best things in life cost just $2"

— Tiny Tim, American musician, born 1932

"Death is never polite, even when we expect it."

— Tiny Tim, American musician, born 1932

"If the club was empty, I sang to the chairs."

— Tiny Tim, American musician, born 1932

"When I first went on the 'Johnny Carson show', the band did not want me, and Carson did not want me. If the audience had not received 'Tiptoe' so overwhelmingly, I do not believe Carson would have let me come over to be on the panel after the song."

— Tiny Tim, American musician, born 1932

"Music is a performance and needs the audience."

— Michael Tippett, English composer, born 1905

"Shiva danced the world into existence."

— Michael Tippett, English composer, died January 8, 1998

"At a time when experimentation expresses itself in all forms of life, search becomes the only valid expression of the spirit."

— Mark Tobey, American-Swiss painter, born 1890

"We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain."

— Mark Tobey, American-Swiss painter, born 1890

"On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds."

— Mark Tobey, American-Swiss painter, born 1890

"The dimension that counts for the creative person is the space he creates within himself. This inner space is closer to the infinite than the other, and it is the privilege of the balanced mind... and the search for an equilibrium is essential - to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space."

— Mark Tobey, American-Swiss painter, born December 11, 1890

"I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything."

— Natalie du Toit, South African swimmer, born 1984

"Maybe in our bodies there's a whole world of mythology? Maybe there exists some sort of reflection of the great and the small, the human body joining within itself everything with everything - stories and heroes, gods and animals, the order of plants and the harmony of minerals?"

— Olga Tokarczuk, Polish Novelist, born 1962

"Standing there on the embankment, staring into the current, I realized that—in spite of all the risks involved—a thing in motion will always be better than a thing at rest; that change will always be a nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity."

— OOlga Tokarczuk, Polish Novelist, born 1962

"Then you realize: night gives the world back its natural, original appearance, without suger-coating it; day is a flight of fancy, light a slight exception, an oversight, a disruption of the order. The world in fact is dark, almost black. Motionless and cold."

— Olga Tokarczuk, Polish Novelist, born 1962