Track Quotes - Page 35

• New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It's basically going to become a normal thing for us to allow Microsoft to put a three-dimensional camera on top of your television set looking at you, which sounds like a Big Brother scenario if ever I heard one, but, still, it's what we're going to allow.

  Jesse Schell

  Brother, Normal, Cameras

  "Why games will take over our lives". Interview with John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2010.

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• I've been running since high school. My boyfriend was on the track team, and I'd run with him.

  Jane McGonigal

  Running, Team, School

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• Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.

  David Perlmutter

  Brain, Survival, Important

  "Human Memory: Why Bad Memories Stick" by David Perlmutter, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2011.

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• Our prayers lay the track down which God's power can come.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Revival, Intercession

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• Once again...Rick Bass draws us into his magical human worlds, rendered urgently by a hypnotic prose that tracks a parallel and untamed natural world, often with a trace of loss and always patrolled by unmistakable decency. He is a master of this form.

  Doug Peacock

  Loss, Untamed, World

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• I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail.

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Reading, Character

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.141

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• The poet's discourse can be compared to the track of a charged particle through a cloud-chamber. An energised field of association and connotation, of overtones and undertones, of rebus and homophone, surround its motion, and break from it in the context of collision .. in Western poetry so much of the charged substance is previous poetry.

  George Steiner

  Clouds, Poetry, Substance

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• Consider the track record of your naysayers. How many dreams have they successfully brought into this world?

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Dream, Records, World

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• I think romance is something that you don't clock or keep track of... you don't manage it in that way. It's something that happens in a moment. Usually, it's in a period of time when you put yourself in an uncomfortable position for the sake of somebody else.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Thinking, Romance, Sake

  "Valentine's Day - Ashton Kutcher and Topher Grace interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.

  Mose Allison

  Song, Credit, Records

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 2, 2010.

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• It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Order, Walden Pond

  Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Walden”, p.300, Bibliolis Books

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• Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Uncles, Sea, Rivers

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.189, Cambridge University Press

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• I believe very profoundly in an over-ruling Providence, and I do not fear that any real plans can be thrown off the track. It maynot be intended that I shall be President--but that would not break my heart.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Real, Believe, Heart

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1977). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• What joy when the insouciant
  armadillo glances at us and doesn't
  quicken his trotting
  across the track into the palm brush.
  What is this joy? That no animal
  falters, but knows what it must do?

  Denise Levertov

  Animal, Joy, Instinct

  Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, Paul A. Lacey (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

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• In preparing the soil for planting, you will need several tools. Dynamite would be a beautiful thing to use, but it would have a tendency to get the dirt into the front-hall and track up the stairs.

  Robert Benchley

  Beautiful, Tools, Use

  Robert Benchley (1925). “Of All Things”

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• Sunday morning may be cheery enough, with its extra cup of coffee and litter of Sunday newspapers, but there is always hanging over it the ominous threat of 3 P.M., when the sun gets around to the back windows and life stops dead in its tracks.

  Robert Benchley

  Morning, Coffee, Sunday

  Robert Benchley (1946). “One Minute, Please”

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• ...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Hero, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.
  To what indifference people may come, to what profound conviction of having lost the right track forever.

  Franz Kafka

  Courage, Adversity, People

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• As Anna Freud remarked, the toddler who wanders off into some other aisle, feels lost, and screams anxiously for his mother neversays "I got lost," but accusingly says "You lost me!" It is a rare mother who agrees that she lost him! she expects her child to stay with her; in her experience it is the child who has lost track of the mother, while in the child's experience it is the mother who has lost track of him. Each view is entirely correct from the perspective of the individual who holds it .

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Mother, Children, Views

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• Actors have seven tracks going in their minds: They've got all the research they've done for the part, then they have whatever the director asked them to do, then they've got what the departments like special effects need them to do.

  Tobin Bell

  Mind, Special, Research

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• I only found out about Eminem getting on the track like a month ago. As if the song couldn't get any better. He just slays me, he's such a genius.

  Hayley Williams

  Song, Months, Genius

  "Hayley Williams Calls Cameo With Eminem On B.O.B's Album 'Incredible'". Interview with James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. April 5, 2010.

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• Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the mane ofthe grass; the diluted reflection of the sky together with the fleeting sight of the reeds; the Negresses fill their dripping gourds and their red clay containers; the song of the washerwomen; the gorged fields the tall crops ripening.

  Jacques Roumain

  Song, Nature, Garden

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• What I like about it is that I'm not somebody who's in movies. I'm a guy who's not very good going around the track with a bunch of guys who are a hell of a lot better.

  Christian Bale

  Guy, Hell, Bunch

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I was born in Memphis. There was music all around me, really deep and special music. I heard all these great masters at a young age.There was a great genius in my town, Phineas Newborn, who is one of the greatest pianists ever on the planet. He took me under his wings at about 9 and he put me on the right track.

  Charles Lloyd

  Wings, Age, Special

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Trains are all the ways you miss each other-wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time.

  Daisy Whitney

  Missing, Way, Wrong Time

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