#tract

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#also #becomes #lives #longer #mathematics

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#being #between #difference #distraction #fulfillment

True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#attention #attract #noticed #order #tries

I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#attracted #confused #feel #gender #how

You don't really see ugly people that are old, or a bit grotty and smelly, in the media. If a Martian came down, they would think we were all tall, thin, attractive and wealthy. ↗

— Jo Brand

#bit #came #down #martian #media

The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found. ↗

— William Stafford

#found #getting #going #like #lost

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#abstract #i #i think #intellectual #leader

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#i #painter #rotten #wanted

The attraction in this city is money, from gambling. What you are if you work here is a shill. ↗

— Joe Williams

#city #gambling #here #money #work

I felt like my pregnancy was a sacred moment for me. I stayed in Boston and I didn't work apart from the contracts I have, and then I only let them use my face. ↗

— Gisele Bundchen

#boston #contracts #face #felt #i