#tract

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Moses Hadas

#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done. ↗

— Mark Harmon

#attracted #business #characters #done #i

If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once. ↗

— Charles E. Merrill

#does #full #him #his #laborers

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism. ↗

— Barbara Hepworth

#different #doing #felt #form #i

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short. ↗

— Adam Hochschild

#distractions #hard #plentiful #short #work

Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life. ↗

— Allan Houston

#contract #going #huge #just #life

Success to me was getting out of that contract in one piece. ↗

— Brenda Holloway

#getting #me #out #piece #success

I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#bounce #did #distracts #even #i

I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly. ↗

— Juliette Lewis

#beautiful #done #i #i can #i think

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#build #complete #could #everything #further