#tract

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#always #down-to-earth #i #simple #simple way

I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema. ↗

— Siouxsie Sioux

#being #cinema #creating #drawn #i

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#everybody #nobody #nought #zero

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#artifices #both #everybody #found #history

I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#being #black #black hole #black holes #create

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#great #great thing #hear #phone #really

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#discovered #else #loses #someone #something

Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best. ↗

— Terry Southern

#contract #get #major #studio #very

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. ↗

— Og Mandino

#constantly #graces #i #improve #manners

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#antagonism #between #divided #division #exploited