Attentuated Quotes

#1. From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as I had long ago dreamt of doing, based on the Tintin paradigm: on my toes, travelling, senses attentuated, everything just adventure and exploration, curiosity and problem-solving.

Luke Davies

#2. But when I look in the basin, among the curdlike blood clots, I see and elfin thorax, attentuated, its pencilline ribs all in parallel rows with tiny knobs of spine rounding upwards. A translucent arm and hand swim beside.

Sallie Tisdale

#3. I'm more about what's right than having the girl's back no matter what.

Scheana Marie

#4. When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

Gabrielle Zevin

#5. This man was hurt, damaged in some fundamental way. She saw it not in those scars upon his body but in the haunted expression in his eyes.

Emily March

#6. Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It's much more of a business - very scientific.

Sylvester Stallone

#7. I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

Ray Bradbury

#8. Tomorrow is your future's yesterday.

Craig Ferguson

#9. But Granny was the sort of person you brought with you when you went to war, and that was what Elsa loved about her.

Fredrik Backman

#10. I had just heard tales that the Valkyrie were large warriors, akin to Amazons."
"If you're the sole survivor of an army attacked by us, are you going to say we had our asses handed to us by petite, nubile females, or by she-monsters who can bench Buicks?

Kresley Cole

#11. Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.

Rachel Carson

#12. Never judge abook by just loking the cover

Jerry

#13. strangers were just people he hadn't become friends with yet.

Eric Walters

#14. Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer or inner compulsion. Right thinking can come about only when the mind is not
enslaved by tradition and memory.

Jiddu Krishnamurti