#tract

People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don't think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can't stomach. But I tried to be as collegial as possible. When you sign that contract, you're tied to that opera house to try your best. But every different team will play with a different intensity. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

#came #certain #certain things #changed #contract

Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beverage #book #comfortable #couch #distractions

I'm attracted to working with comedians because they don't have that stars' idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they're always addressing the camera too much. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#always #attracted #because #camera #comedians

I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth. ↗

— Bob Graham

#aims #come #completion #concluded #distraction

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#change #get #i #less #lot

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#ball #coach #contract #fire #lifetime

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

#attracted #creative #eventually #going #me

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#battle #contend #fighting #known #only

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#arts #most #music #really

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives. ↗

— Norman Lear

#attracted #became #come #experience #humor