Tractions Quotes & Sayings

I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make the most of what we have. For Trollope, society; for Roth, Jews. For me, apparently, love. Why hide it? — Amy Bloom

I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don't give up, you will still succeed. — William Kamkwamba

If only he really knew how messy my head was sometimes. That attack last night? Just the tip of a Titanic-sized fuckedup iceberg. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

As unwieldy as those early computers were, there was an aura surrounding them. They were perceived as magical; their operators, as wizards of the modern age endowed with extraordinary scientific prowess. — Ross Parry

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way. — Thomas Bernhard

Without each other, there wouldn't be much of a point, would there? — Amy Zhang

You don't have to feel safe to feel unafraid. — Lights

Personally, all I ever want to be wearing are jeans. — Lauren Graham

Touch not the fighting-dog without a glove.
Give me a fighting-dog and I come alive.
Fighting-dogs always meant more to Tom Mitchell than people. — John Duncan

He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air. — Ray Bradbury

Wayne shrugged. Guess anytime I find a corpse and it ain't my fault they're dead, I feel a little relieved. — Brandon Sanderson

The medical device tax repeal is the only proposal that had the most bipartisan votes coming out of the House and has the opportunity in the Senate to gain tractions, and it fixes a part of ObamaCare in terms of repealing an awful tax. And it's got bipartisan support. — Erik Paulsen

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body. — Craig Venter

One can love any man that is generous. — Leigh Hunt