Tratto Quotes & Sayings

Life is the sum of all choices — Albert Camus

Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that. — Penn Jillette

As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not. — Henry Rollins

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping. — Katherine Anne Porter

We always ask where the time went. We never ask where it's coming from. — James Lileks

There is one thing that, more than any other, throws people absolutely off their balance - the thought that you are dependent upon them. This is sure to produce an insolent and domineering manner towards you. There are some people, indeed, who become rude if you enter into any kind of relation with them; for instance, if you have occasion to converse with them frequently upon confidential matters, they soon come to fancy that they can take liberties with you, and so they try and transgress the laws of politeness. This is why there are so few with whom you care to become more intimate, and why you should avoid familiarity with vulgar people. If a man comes to think that I am more dependent upon him than he is upon me, he at once feels as though I had stolen something from him; and his endeavor will be to have his vengeance and get it back. The only way to attain superiority in dealing with men, is to let it be seen that you are independent of them. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I dont care who you are I know who I am — Sandra Cameroun

I kind of enjoy the limits. If you've got no limits, you can do absolutely anything, it's very difficult, actually. I always enjoyed working with machines like color photocopiers and letter-pressing type settings, things where the limits are very apparent. You push the machine to do something, and it tries to do its best, and it usually has wonderful qualities all of its own. Then you get a sort of dialogue going, and the limitations become qualities. — Dave McKean

Pen, wax and parchment govern the world. — Benjamin Franklin

On the other hand, we worked a year on this and some people are going to watch it in a night and go, "We want more!" And there is something I miss about the longing and the anticipation for the next episode. — Jenji Kohan

We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records. — Edie Brickell

When I look at a film, I don't think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that' because I haven't done that role, so it doesn't matter. — Madhuri Dixit