#tract

I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#attracted #believe #comes #i #i believe

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#africa #always #attracted #bottom #grew

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#contracts #extensive #feeling #first #induces

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world? ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#balance #beyond #carry #confines #considering

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#because #call #essence #exterior #idea

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment. ↗

— Robert Collier

#desire #everything #forms #fulfillment #itself

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#father #korea #polio #train #troop

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#emphasize #i #i tried #interest #make

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#bringing #children #competition #distraction #ears

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element. ↗

— Norman McLaren

#distracting #done #element #film #gate