Retracing Quotes

#1. 'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

Bruce Feiler

#2. Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to make a mark in history like that.

Mark Mason

#3. To create, and to confront, one has to be an outcast.

Masha Gessen

#4. The power of a good film is to engage you and draw you into its world.

Nandita Das

#5. On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.

Herman Melville

#6. We are retracing the lines and windows that are no longer there. We are rebuilding from our memory, trying to do with our eyes open what we usually do with our eyes closed.

David Levithan

#7. Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.

Kevin Smith

#8. In wars amongst ideas,
doubters are the victims.

Toba Beta

#9. At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.

Mick Fleetwood

#10. It's hard, but sometimes it is better to have no friends for a time than to have the wrong friends. The wrong group can lead you down all kinds of paths you really don't want to be on. And retracing your steps can be a long and hard journey

Sean Covey

#11. There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained.

Edgar Allan Poe

#12. Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.

Phyllis Bentley

#13. In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.

Karen Abbott

#14. How can a nation nourished on diversity
breed its own shamanic tradition without retracing its steps to its varied ancestors?

S. Kelley Harrell

#15. I'm the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.

Marilyn Monroe

#16. No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood. If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right.

Sarah Dessen

#17. The worst part of directing is always seeing the first assembly. It's devastating. It really is. It's like going into the delivery room and you can't wait to see your baby, and it's a crocodile.

David Ayer

#18. There is no retracing our steps.

Horace

#19. New orders: Make sure everybody who doesn't want to live here is aboard in five minutes. We are leaving.
-Captain Kevyn Andreyasn

Howard Tayler

#20. I think Ronald Reagan was the best President of my lifetime.

Johnny Ramone

#21. I'm a fan of retracing the facts and absorbing my atmosphere and being influenced by it.

Lindi Ortega

#22. The first step to accomplishing the impossible is to achieve it in your mind.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#23. Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.

Lawrence Lessig

#24. My wife always asks me why I don't make the bed. And I respond with the same reason why I don't tie my shoes after I take them off.

Jim Gaffigan