Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Cardozo

As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem.

Carson McCullers

The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.

Carol Ann Duffy

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

Channing Tatum

I don't know what you're going through life doing if you're not really trying to collect some really great memories.

Richard Paul Evans

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

Bret Easton Ellis

... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [...] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.

Boris Pasternak

You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with - at the end of it, you and I are just as stripped and homeless. And you and I are the last remembrance of all that immeasurable greatness which has been created in all the thousands of years between their time and ours, and it is in memory of all that vanished splendour that we live and love and weep and cling to one another.

Artie Lange

For a degenerate like me, Vegas is like a walk down memory lane. Last time I went to Vegas, I went to my old coke dealer's kid's bar mitzvah.

Arjun Rampal

I know what it is to put on weight. But when I got back to my routine, my body knew how to react. That's muscle memory, and you'll be amazed at what it can do.

Dirk Benedict

As children get older, they are supposed to gradually stand more and more on their own and eventually completely leave the nest. My boys are definitely starting to do that. Soon I might actually go on a date.

Bonita Favre

The boys and (David) did an excellent job,

James Corden

I've not met a soul who wants to see The Wanted over One Direction. The thirst for those boys is insane.

Roger Kahn

I see the boys of summer in their ruin.

Dave Harris

The Vienna Choir Boys is something I've always wanted to see. To see them in person is just really special.

Krysten Ritter

I was totally picked on, but look at me now! I was definitely picked on by boys and girls. I was really lanky and skinny and the boys would say, 'Turn sideways and stick out your tongue, you look like a zipper.'

Carl Sandburg

What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted to fly for the sake of flying. They were Man the Seeker, Man on a Quest. Money was their last thought, their final absent-minded idea. They threw out a lot of old mistaken measurements and figured new ones that stood up when they took off and held the air and steered a course. They proved that "the faster you go the less power you need."

Al Yankovic

Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.

Kourtney Kardashian

It is still crazy to me that I have two boys born on the same exact day. I really tried to not have it happen, so they could each have their day, but there was no way around it.

Ayn Rand

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

Bryant H. McGill

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

Janine Benyus

Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world

Daniel Handler

When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Dana Delany

Remember that you create your world. It’s not what happens to you, but how you choose to deal with it.

Bob Dylan

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

Brigitte Bardot

Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.

Dennis Prager

All of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage