Tracings Quotes

#1. In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

Herman Melville

#2. I was never really a girl, or a woman, or a human being to Raven, Case. Even though he did awful things for me. I was a symbol, an expiation, and when I insisted on becoming a person he did the only thing he could do to keep on serving the symbol and not have to deal with a flesh-and-blood woman.

Glen Cook

#3. The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by.

Robert Breault

#4. The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.

Frank Gehry

#5. Mere faith is the path of the lazy. It is the overused excuse of the deluded. Get off your ass and make something happen yourself.

Dave Matthes

#6. We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on the plate.

Nadar

#7. Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Tom Standage

#8. I think that when people start hanging around each other, they start to pick on on each other's quirks and taste in music, apparently.

Nina Dobrev

#9. Half the people think I write Obama's speeches; the other half think I'm on 'Entourage.' So I'm at the level of fame where people kind of know who I am, but they confuse me with other people.

Jon Favreau

#10. I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

Lena Headey

#11. [I]t wasn't so much the mistakes that people made but how flexible they were in their aftermath that made all the difference in how their lives turned out.

Naomi Jackson

#12. Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

Peter McWilliams

#13. Why the desire for death.
A clean paper or pure white wall.
One false line, a scratch, a mistake.
Unerasable. So obscureby
adding million other tracings,
blend it, cover over.
But the original scratch remains,
written in gold blood, shining.
Desire for a Perfect Life.

Jim Morrison

#14. I have very important phone messages that will be playing Broadway. An evening of my tweets I think is going to be booked into the Golden Theatre.

Douglas Carter Beane