Tracks Quotes
305 quotes by 274 authors
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It was a bad one, the Winter of 1933. Wading home that night through flames of snow, my toes burning, my ears on fire, the…
— John Fante
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The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks. The receding waves catch on…
— Franny Billingsley
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This morning, as Charlotte approached the brick facade of Hartnett, she found herself overcome with a great sense of dread. It hit her with a…
— Anne Ursu
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Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took…
— Boris Pasternak
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Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing…
— Jack London
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I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a clown,' he said.…
— Harper Lee
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What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front…
— Jodi Picoult
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I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop where the scrub…
— Alice Sebold
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Are you such a dreamer To put the world to rights? I'll stay home forever Where two and two always makes a five I'll lay…
— Thom Yorke
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He also tried to block the doorway when she left him. My mother ducked under his arm, ran to her car, and drove away. I…
— Sloane Crosley
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He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life…
— Jens Peter Jacobsen
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Clary stopped dead in her tracks. "Simon?" "Oh, God," said Jace, sounding resigned. "And here I'd actually hoped I'd got hold of something interesting." -Clary…
— Cassandra Clare
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As I stood with her on the platform - she impatient, tapping her foot, leaning forward to look down the tracks - it seemed more…
— Donna Tartt
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Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small…
— Christopher Isherwood
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["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths"…
— Charles Spurgeon
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There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf,…
— Juliet Marillier
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XXIX Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking. Traveller, the path is your tracks And nothing more. Traveller, there is no…
— Antonio Machado
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Merlin’s beard, Harry, you made me jump,†said Slughorn, stopping dead in his tracks and looking wary. “How did you get out of the castle? 
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Who Wrote These Tracks Quotes
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