Tract Quotations

The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood.

I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms, or Hindu-Muslim relations, or position of women, I can do it as it affects my characters as in 'A Suitable Boy.' I could only write about issues specifically through essays. But I'll do that only if I have something worthwhile to say.

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint.

We had been accumulating clues that the glutamine tract expansion is clearly what is important for disease because that's the mutation. But we also concluded that there was something else beyond the glutamine that's really mediating the toxicity of the protein.

If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.

Pine Ridge is simply the poorest census tract in the nation, ... The main business on the reservation is a gas station. All of the housing is HUD housing, Indian housing, which is in many cases deplorable.

People who used antibiotics for their acne -- as compared to people who had acne who weren't using antibiotics -- were about twice as likely to develop an upper respiratory tract infection within a year's period of time.

Our objective will be to give everyone involved the ability to look at each and every tract (of land proposed for sale), to satisfy themselves if they want to, that these tracts are worthy of what we are proposing.

We had known that the expansion of the glutamine tract within Ataxin-1 probably interfered with normal clearance of Ataxin-1, meaning that it accumulated in cells.

We will do whatever is necessary to close down any loopholes, real or perceived. She wants to ensure that the original intent of the Empire Tract deed cannot be circumvented.

The tract homes might be fueling a little bit more (of the growth) than the increase in the actual custom homes.

Quite coincidentally, the first tract of Angolan land to experience totality was also within the path of the total solar eclipse of 2001, June 21,

A serious deterioration of his digestive tract was discovered after an examination and doctors decided to operate.

The body cannot produce enzymes in perfect combinations to metabolize your foods as completely as the food enzymes created by nature do. This results in partially digested fats, proteins, and starches that can clog your body's intestinal tract and arteries.

It will probably be one of the last opportunities the district will have to purchase a large tract of land in an environmentally sensitive area.

In the age where the eight-cylinder Buick, the grey flannel suit and the tract home represented wholesomeness, ... Semina was the ultimate unwholesome object, and we gloried in it." ()

In 1961 you had the American dream at its most fully realized. Tract homes, all of that culture was at its height. It was a peaceful time. Then you look at '62. ... It's the bubbling pot. By 1964 you had cities burning.