Tripwire Quotes

#1. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

Diane Ackerman

#2. The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.

Diane Ackerman

#3. An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment, something that can't be reached in any other way.

Diane Ackerman

#4. Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#5. Adaptation is the key to survival.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. The light of day showed you the limits of possibility. But walk through the dark, the absolute, total darkness, and the possibilities were limitless.

Michael Grant

#7. Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

Siri Hustvedt

#8. In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert A. Heinlein

#9. The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.

Victoria Aveyard

#10. Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

Benjamin Walker

#11. All the happiness and beauty that life had to offer only revealed themselves when his mind drifted off into fantasies of a world far removed from his own.

Orhan Pamuk

#12. The desire for success is inherent within all of us. It is a part of our nature to want to grow, to improve the quality of our lives. However, nothing improves by accident, it requires conscious attention. When you are being bombarded by negatives, improvement, growth and success are easy to forget.

Bob Proctor

#13. Our bodies were printed as blank pages
to be filled with the ink of our hearts

Michael Biondi

#14. I know what a good movie is.

Gilbert Hernandez

#15. He was happy because, after such a long study, experimentation, and struggle, he could at last affirm the ultimate truth: there never were and never would be any madmen in Itaguai or anywhere else.

Machado De Assis

#16. How could I forget you, Darryl? You called me God.

Adam Gopnik

#17. Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.

Deb Caletti