Tripwire Quotes & Sayings

In the modern food landscape, the Krafts, Monsantos, and Archer Daniels Midlands are standing in the way of food democracy. — Brian Halweil

Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. — Diane Ackerman

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present. — Igor Stravinsky

The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five papers, I think. We were out all the time around the clock and every time we came across a really juicy murder or scandal or whatever, they'd send the big time reporters and photographers, otherwise they'd run our stories. So that's what I was doing, and I was going to university at the same time. — Kurt Vonnegut

I think I do find humor in disorder, and reality is disorder. — Julie Delpy

On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It's in this sense that we must be holy. — Kevin DeYoung

O love! love! love! Is there any sorrow in life like loving? — Amelia E. Barr

Say your husband wants to start a business creating topiary sculptures for clients. You think the idea is bonkers, but you admire his passion, so it seems cruel to veto it. Instead, set a tripwire. Okay, dear, let's give the topiary-sculpture business a shot, but can we agree that we won't invest more than $10,000 of our savings in it? Alternatively, you might say: Go for it, but if you don't have a paying customer within three months, let's talk seriously about Plan B. — Chip Heath

Men have reacted very negatively to the power that is inherent in women. — Frederick Lenz

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

The wealthiest person on earth is the one who appreciates — Tony Robbins

My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel. — Amy Tan

I once heard someone refer to Breathed as the scar of the paradise we lost. So it was in many ways, a place with a perfect wound just below the surface. — Tiffany McDaniel

Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions. — Diane Ackerman