Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them

Charles Caleb Colton

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

Charles Caleb Colton

All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.

Charles Stross

Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.

Charles Stross

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

Charles Spurgeon

Oh, to have “the word of Christ” always dwelling inside of us;-in the memory, never forgotten; in the heart, always loved; in the understanding, really grasped; with all the powers and passions of the mind fully submitted to its control!

Alan Watts

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.

Alan Moore

Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss The next, it leads you somewhere you don't want to go.. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you'd hoped were forgotten.

Al Lewis

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

Bernard Goldberg

Except for talk radio, liberals pretty much control the culture.

Bill Maher

Republicans look to find the future and they find radio.

Edward Klein

If it weren't for radio programs like 'The George Jarkesy Show,' no one would know about 'The Amateur'.

Aisha Tyler

So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.

Billy Gibbons

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

James King

We bucked the trend in radio research. We did what no else said could be done.

Marilyn Monroe

It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.

Ashley Highfield

It's all about coexistence - video didn't kill the radio star, after all.

Audre Lorde

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

Bertolt Brecht

First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

Carolyn Porco

Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets,

Carolyn Wells

Circumstances alter faces.

C. S. Lewis

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces

Aaron Sorkin

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

Charlie Munger

Those who will not face improvements because they are changes, will face changes that are not improvements.

Charles Manson

I've done nothing I'm ashamed of. Nothing I couldn't face God with. I wouldn't kill a bug.

Bill Ayers

I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn't do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?