#tract

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. ↗

— Walter Pater

#art #attempts #beauty #been #define

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon. ↗

— Ron Paul

#anything #anytime #away #benefit #cliches

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires. ↗

— Petrarch

#desires #our #riches #short #short cut

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die. ↗

— Michael Ironside

#art #art college #attractive #canvas #college

I am attracted to the dark side of life! ↗

— Famke Janssen

#attracted #dark #dark side #i #i am

I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way. ↗

— Kiefer Sutherland

#gotten #humour #i #i think #laugh

I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily. ↗

— LeBron James

#easily #get #i #joke #laugh

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#attracted #because #been #changes #completely

Fame attracts lunatics. ↗

— Elton John

#fame #lunatics

Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough. ↗

— Elton John

#because #choose #dwight #enough #going