Tracing Paper Quotes

#1. By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

John Tenniel

#2. However, like a piece of tracing paper slipping away, everything had, little by little, become irreparably different than it had been in the past.

Haruki Murakami

#3. They all occupied the same space but did not occupy it together. Imagine a thousand leaves of tracing paper, each with one person lightly pencilled on it, all stacked atop a scene of a frozen city block. A thousand discreet and solitary realities that appear to be occurring in the same location.

Doug Dorst

#4. Even so, everything was ever so slightly off, as if little by little the tracing paper had slipped irretrievably from the lines of summers past.

Haruki Murakami

#5. My adult mind says that the really interesting bit of LOTR must have been what happened afterwards - the troubles of a war-ravaged continent, the Marshall Aid scheme for Mordor, the shift in political power, the democratization of Minas

Anonymous

#6. There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's alive in a way that's greater than any description of it ...

Mark Helprin

#7. The red sun pulled itself from sleep and glared upon the world that it must still serve, though itself of more than pensionable age.

George R R Martin

#8. It's so important to take vitamins. People always get ill on tour because of the close proximity in the bus with everyone.

Ellie Goulding

#9. I've triumphed over addiction.

Tatum O'Neal

#10. Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

Jeff Miller

#11. The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.

David Miliband

#12. Tobias took the photograph. At least, that's what I saw. Most likely I still had the photograph in my hand, but I couldn't feel it there, now I perceived Tobias holding it. It's strange, the way the mind can change perception.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. Except when I was alone. I'd hate myself. It's how we feel about ourselves when we're alone that must guide our decisions.

Tom Rob Smith

#14. LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males.

Ambrose Bierce

#15. The universe is a giant mind. Some people have the ability to tap into that mind, we call them psychic. Others don't, we call them dull ... but they have potential.

Frederick Lenz

#16. Because religious institutions are not afraid to talk about love as a goal, they are likely to be more effective at providing community services.

Michael Lerner

#17. We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper trail disappeared, we used DNA analysis. The technology was just being invented that allowed you to trace ancestry through DNA.

Henry Louis Gates