#tract

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#being #books #distracted #dodging #elevation

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life. ↗

— Hector Elizondo

#because #had #i #life #lot

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#arts #beautiful #because #dancing #itself

I don't look at Twitter between events because it's a distraction but I will ring my fiance and parents to let them know how it's going. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#between #distraction #events #fiance #going

I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#bedroom #bought #distracted #end #exposed

I think that would be ungrateful if I were upset because I'm seen as attractive or sexy. That's opened so many doors for me in my life. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#because #doors #i #i think #life

I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. ↗

— Tina Fey

#could #date #get #husband #i

So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really. ↗

— Neil Finn

#because #being #completely #exciting #heroes

Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already. ↗

— Linda Fiorentino

#already #contract #contracts #enough #financial

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#better #criticism #fleas #jump #like