Quotations

"Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell."

— Pete Townshend, English rock musician, born 1945

"Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the way towards a miracle, while I invisibly remain standing."

— Tomas Transtromer, Swedish poet, born 1931

"Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be."

— Tomas Transtromer, Swedish poet, born 1931

"I am still the place where creation does some work on itself."

— Tomas Transtromer, Swedish poet, born 1931

"Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere.

When you sing the line, 'How many years can a people exist, before they're allowed to be free?' in a prison yard for political prisoners in El Salvador; if you have sung it to a group of union organizers, who have all been in jail, in South Korea; if you've sung to Jews in the Soviet Union who have been refused exit visas; if you've sung it with Bishop Tutu protesting apartheid, the song breathes, it lives, it has a contemporary currency."

— Mary Travers, American singer, born 1936

"With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected."

— P. L. Travers, Australian-English author, died April 23, 1996

"Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition."

— P. L. Travers, Australian-English author, born August 9, 1899

"Women come into our shop for that ultimate moment in their life. They're buying a dream. They're buying a moment for themselves. That's what I sell - moments."

— Philip Treacy, Irish hat designer, born May 26, 1967

"How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about."

— Philip Treacy, Irish hat designer, born May 26, 1967

"I believe it is the photographer's function to reveal that which is concealed, even if it be repugnant to the majority, not merely to record what we see around us."

— Arthur Tress, American photographer, born November 24, 1940

"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

— G. M. Trevelyan, British historian, born 1876

"I have two doctors, my left leg and my right."

— G. M. Trevelyan, British historian, born 1876

"My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years."

— Lee Trevino, American golfer, born December 1, 1939

"The older I get, the better I used to be."

— Lee Trevino, American golfer, born December 1, 1939