Retracts Quotes & Sayings

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. — George Santayana

We just sent some footage to ABC Primetime, who is doing a segment that alleges to tell our side of the story, and in that, a week before she became ill, there's Eliza Jane at her friend's birthday party, blowing, over and over again, a party horn - the one with the long, curly thing that sticks out when you blow it and retracts when you breathe in - over and over and over again ... this child that, a few weeks later, would be said to have died of fatal pneumonia. — Christine Maggiore

Learn to access the cosmic trust. Life will be easy. — Amit Ray

Live deep instead of fast. — Henry Canby

I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it ... — Gertrude Stein

Song I try to make the step-down call of the chickadee, but do it too insistently, over and over so it loses sense, the air going equally out and back, not slower in the opening, then quickening as the tight hinge retracts, but absolutely evenly, too even, the way one breathes and regulates breath for a doctor, to present the body's equanimity. There's a bird in a tree with a hinge in its throat, a door opening to let the sweet air pass from a high, thin place down a notch. There's phlox out there, opening between one black and another black, hanging branch of an apple tree - the very tree that holds the bird that bends the air so parenthetically around itself, and its song around anything listening. — Lia Purpura

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land? — Alexander McCall Smith

I hate guns," replied the Doctor. "Which isn't to say that a bit of fantasy violence can't be therapeutic. — Jacqueline Rayner

The Dodgers to me are the Yankees of the National League. — Joe Torre

Could it be - no one receives the peace of God without giving thanks to God? Is thankfulness really but the deep, contented breath of peacefulness? Is this why God asks us to give thanks even when things look a failure? When there doesn't seem much to give thanks for? — Ann Voskamp

Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems. — Carl Pomerance

Sometimes I think it's recklessness but at other times the coincidence of it seems almost supernatural because here in the midst of success comes death — Crystal Evans

I love watching Billy Bob, just as a punter anyway. I like his work. But working with him is really easy and really straight-forward. He's immediately good. He doesn't have to work up to it. He doesn't make your life difficult. He listens. He's a very good listener, in terms of his acting. — Martin Freeman