#tract

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#aphorism #best #consists #exclusively #greatest

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#attracts #because #bottom #charm #inexpressible

Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#attractive #attractiveness #attributes #beauty #been

Why does a three-year-old, and it's usually boys, want to drive the tractor or have machinery and be in control of it? I don't know. Why wouldn't you ask to boil a kettle or something? Maybe you would, I dunno. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#boil #control #does #drive #dunno

My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#contracts #go #manager #over

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#anything #attracted #because #condition #examining

I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I'm not a fighter. ↗

— Herman Cain

#because #campaign #caused #continued #distractions

I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#attracted #because #better #budget #i

I want a new contract. I'm happy at United and I see my future here. ↗

— Rio Ferdinand

#future #happy #here #i #i see

Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening. ↗

— Rosanne Cash

#anyway #baby #because #distracted #even