#tract

I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#come #contractors #correctly #doing #done

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

— David Alan Grier

#father #korea #polio #train #troop

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way. ↗

— Erich Hoeber

#attracted #been #being #characters #circumstances

She had sought me out. I knew it would happen. Even if I had switched to a different section, she would have sought me out all the same. She, who hid in the crowd, who didn’t want anyone to see her behind her veil of averted eyes and aloofness. When I stepped forward, she came out, too. And she pointed and said, revealing a child’s wanton smile: “That’s the one I want.” And like a potted sunflower that had just been sold to a customer, I was taken away. There was no way to refuse. This, from a beautiful girl that I was already deeply, viscerally attracted to. Things were getting good. ↗

— Miaojin Qiu

#notes-of-a-crocodile #beauty

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events. ↗

— Teresa de Lauretis

#another #another way #contingent #embodied #events

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#deduct #future #him #preparing #serious

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#contract #eating #few #habit #show

Make sure you know what you are signing when you sign a recording contract. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#know #make #recording #sign #signing

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five. ↗

— Dinah Sheridan

#child #contracting #five #i #sickly

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#angeles #as far as #band #been #columbia