#tract

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#am #better #did #i #i am

I'm not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it's our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us. ↗

— Pete Rozelle

#anything #aspects #athletic #bad #becoming

In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#attracted #character #happen #high #high school

Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#attractive #being #call #cannot #themselves

The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood. ↗

— Junipero Serra

#generally #good #here #land #neither

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#always #down-to-earth #i #simple #simple way

We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#british #british people #contract #enabling #ensure

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#everybody #nobody #nought #zero

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#artifices #both #everybody #found #history

Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best. ↗

— Terry Southern

#contract #get #major #studio #very