Trace Quotes

• A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director, saw 'Death of a Salesman' and called me in for 'Unbroken.' The casting director of 'Normal Heart' had seen 'Salesman' too. I look back on it now, and it's like one thing led to another; it was a chain reaction.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Death
  • Director
  • Reaction

• And ne'er did Grecian chisel traceA Nymph, a Naiad, or a GraceOf finer form or lovelier face.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Face
  • Form
  • Lovelier

• The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.

  

  Alice Hegan Rice
  • Grief
  • Leaves
  • Trace

• Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into erudite apes like themselves. If any pupil showed the slightest trace of originality, they persecuted him relentlessly, and the only model pupils whom I have ever got to know have all been failures in after-life.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Teachers
  • Failures
  • Tyrants

• All trace of the woman he had seen had vanished, leaving behind a shadow with perfect posture and no conversation. She was right. Everyone would wonder if he flirted with her. He wouldn’t even know how to manage it. One couldn’t flirt with a lump.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Woman
  • Shadow
  • Flirt

• I didn't expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are too hard-bitten to dwell on it, and they've sanded away all but the outcroppings of history - the museums, the memorials.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • War
  • History
  • Vietnam

• Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Starving
  • Trace
  • Vanishes

• There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.

  

  Billy Joel
  • People
  • Lost
  • Kindness

• I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Nature
  • Voice
  • Hearts

• Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a second perhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on the morrow there will be no slightest trace left of any happening.

  

  Antonin Sertillanges
  • Happening
  • Trace
  • Sleeplessness

• A good wanderer leaves no trace.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Leaves
  • Trace
  • Wanderer

• Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world.

  

  Anne Carson
  • World
  • Small
  • Hand

• They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed. They have no legacy except for their names, which they did nothing to earn.

  

  Esmeralda Santiago
  • Legacy
  • Names
  • Created

• When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several parts, the whole presents a machine of a peculiar construction by which it is adapted to a certain end. We perceive a fabric, erected in wisdom, to obtain a purpose worthy of the power that is apparent in the production of it.

  

  James Hutton
  • System
  • Trace
  • Terrestrial

• I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Silence
  • Harmony
  • Trace

• To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Poet
  • Gods
  • Trace

• Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one consciousness, but there is also no trace of circumstantial evidence of this ever happening anywhere in the world. If I say that there cannot be more than one consciousness in the same mind, this seems a blunt tautology - we are quite unable to imagine the contrary...

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Imagine
  • Consciousness
  • Evidence

• When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Conflict
  • Level
  • Narratives

• It’s very difficult to trace convicted paedophiles.

  

  Rebekah Brooks
  • Difficult
  • Trace
  • Paedophiles

• There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Help
  • Happiness
  • Vain

• She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up vivid, living scenery.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Heart
  • Hearing
  • Trace

• Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.

  

  Evan S. Connell
  • Waiting
  • Relatives
  • Trace