Tracing Letters Quotes

#1. When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#2. I plummeted down past the zigzaggers, the students, the experts, through year after year of doubleness and smiles and compromise, into my own past.

Sylvia Plath

#3. Her pubic hair grew like a patch of grass that had been trampled by a passing army.

Haruki Murakami

#4. A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#5. As a player, you should look at the teams you might want to play for. The city you may want to live in. The system you may want to play in. The economy. The cost of living. Everything. It's about what's best for you.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#6. Run from a knife and rush a gun.

Jimmy Hoffa

#7. It will be the kiss by which all others in your life will be judged ... and found wanting.

Anthony Hopkins

#8. Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky.

Jennifer Niven

#9. It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny - even varying degrees of it - is much more difficult, and much more expensive. The time has come to rein in the federal government, put it on a crash diet, and let the people keep their money and their liberty.

Ron Paul

#10. The inception of human consciousness, the genesis of awareness, must have entailed prolonged 'condensations' around intractable nodes of wonder and terror, at the discriminations to be made between the self and the other, between being and non-being (the discovery of the scandal of death).

George Steiner

#11. I'm not really sure what I'm going to do when I get there, but that's why someone invented the fine art of improv. Or, when that fails, stalling.

Danielle Ellison

#12. Not every move you make has to be a great leap

Russell Simmons