#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

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

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

If there is one thing I have come to believe over the years, it’s the notion that there really is somebody for everybody. Every single person is going to look at beauty from a different angle. Every single person is going to be attracted to certain features and characteristics that are completely different than the next person. And… there isn’t a person on earth that everybody on earth finds attractive. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#beautiful #beauty #individuality #love #people

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#attract #been #dress #had #incarnation

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