#tracts

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

Despite all these obstacles and bad security situation, I have the energy and the resolve to train, but my head is full of ideas and it distracts me, and I need to focus. ↗

— Dana Hussein

#despite #distracts #energy #focus #full

Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts. ↗

— John Surtees

#because #contracts #dictated #driver #other

Evil is whatever distracts. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#evil #whatever

Acting attracts shy people and show-offs. ↗

— Penelope Wilton

#attracts #people #shy #shy people

That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people. ↗

— James McAvoy

#big #characters #i #journeys #like

The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you. ↗

— Mike Oldfield

#biggest #biggest problems #feed #get #off

Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#attracts #audiences #easy #exciting #great

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#authors #business #contracts #publishers #publishing

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#area #attracts #festivals #me #modern