Quotes about track
A collection of quotes on the topic of track, tracking, time, timing.
Quotes about track

Interview, MSNBC, UNKNOWN DATE


On temptation - "'ATTRIBUTING THE SATELLITES SUCCESS TO ME IS BLASPHEMY' – T.B. JOSHUA" http://www.modernghana.com/print/247180/1/attributing-the-satellites-success-to-me-is-blasph.html Modern Ghana (November 4 2009)

Quoted in Jessamy Calkin, "Johnny Depp Esq.," http://www.johnnydeppfan.com/interviews/ukesquire.htm Esquire [U.K. edition] (February 2000)

“ [30:02 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOlg_2qAbUA Our Only Hope Will Come Through Rebellion]” (2014)
pg. 110
Pretty Mess book (2018)

Concepts

2016, United Nations Address (September 2016)

Boisgeloup, winter 1934
As quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008
Quotes, 1930's, "Conversations avec Picasso," 1934–35

Other

Conversation with Konstantin Pulikovsky (Summer 2001), quoted in his book Orient Express
Behnke, Alison. Kim Jong Il's North Korea http://books.google.ba/books?id=cdQ8QZU6H0MC&printsec=frontcover&dq=kim+jong+il&source=bl&ots=qNQT5KQLoZ&sig=OguwgfrkTQ-eOqbqUCBWSnQAe-k&hl=hr&sa=X&ei=7VJWUPC3OK_74QSxmoGQBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=kim%20jong%20il&f=false
Variant: I know I'm an object of criticism in the world, but if I am being talked about, I must be doing the right things.

Born This Way, written by Lady Gaga and Jeppe Laursen
Song lyrics, Born This Way (2011)

1920s, What I Believe (1925)

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Gitanjali http://www.spiritualbee.com/gitanjali-poems-of-tagore/ (1912)

Stuff for legend: Athlete Milkha Singh's autobiography, 11 July 2013, 13 December 2013, Deccan herald http://www.deccanherald.com/content/344118/stuff-legend-athlete-milkha-singh039s.html,

Natural selection from the genetical standpoint. Australian Journal of Science 22, 16-17, 1959.
1950s

Song of the White Bison Woman who brought the sacred pipe to men.
Black Elk Speaks (1961)

“God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance,
Rests never on the track until it reach”
Cenciaja.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

2014, Review of Signals Intelligence Speech (June 2014)

I cannot begin to describe my emotions. Pygmalion seeing his statue come to life could not have been more deeply moved. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally, I would have given for that one which I had wrested from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence …
On the Invention of the Induction Motor
My Inventions (1919)

Family Business
Lyrics, The College Dropout (2004)

“I kind of lost track of time…"
"For two hours?"
Elend nodded sheepishly. "There were books involved.”
Variant: Elend: I kind of lost track of time…
Breeze: For two hours?
Elend: There were books involved.
Source: The Well of Ascension
Source: Magic Shifts
“I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.”

“Stay focused instead of getting offended or off track by others.”

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

According to TruthOrFiction.com https://www.truthorfiction.com/did-dwight-eisenhower-say-someday-someone-will-claim-it-never-happened-in-1945/, this sentence first appeared in a letter to the editor published on DominicanToday.com, accompanied with the words "he did this because he said in words to this effect". It was probably a paraphrase of the above bold sentence.
Disputed
Source: The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
Variant: Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Context: The muffled thunder of dialogue comes through the walls, then a chorus of laughter. Then more thunder. Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

As quoted in TIME magazine (6 October 1952)
1950s
“Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby?”
Evening Post, 2004 (taken from "Home Sweet Home - Banksy's Bristol" by Steve Wright)
Other sources
Source: Wall and Piece

An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony on the Charge of Illegal Voting] (1874)
Trial on the charge of illegal voting (1874)

The news media would report this, and Iraq would relax. France, meanwhile, would surrender.
Column for week of April 15, 2002
Columns and articles

1979

Goliath's Wonderful Life, Hoop Magazine; May 1999; Chris Ekstrand
Strength

"The Buried Life" (1852), st. 6

“Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly ‘tracks’ the changing environment.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 7 “Constructive Evolution” (p. 179)

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007).

Source: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 26, “Liz: It’s Complicated” (pp. 286-287)
How Not to Complain About Taxes (III): "I deserve my pretax income" http://left2right.typepad.com/main/2005/01/how_not_to_comp_1.html (January 26, 2005)

Source: Repubblica.it interview, 23 Dec 2016<sup> link http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2016/12/23/news/assange_wikileaks-154754000/</sup>

Explaining her opposition to President Bush's tax cut in San Francisco (28 June 2004) http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20040629-0007-ca-clintons-sanfrancisco.html
Senate years (2001 – January 19, 2007)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 373.