#tract

America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive. ↗

— Norm Coleman

#attracting #colleges #competitive #continuing #economy

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#aphorism #best #consists #exclusively #greatest

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#attracts #because #bottom #charm #inexpressible

I signed contracts I didn't think were a good idea but people around me said it was the way forward. It saddens me that I'll never own my first album ever, which sucks. ↗

— Julian Cope

#around #contracts #ever #first #forward

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#attraction #better #concern #forced #gaining

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#comic #describing #impossible #joke #near

So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles. ↗

— Steve Case

#best #comfort #comfort zone #figure #fill

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

#distract #film #help #interest #less

I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#common #contact #din #horrible #i

Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many. ↗

— James Chanos

#bubble #buildings #call #come #complex