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.

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.

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.

Bruce Lee

I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Eckhart Tolle

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Eddie Redmayne

I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.

Christine Nelson

What are some of your most fondest memories of the Yamboree festival?,

Dorothy Allison

I have a terrible memory.

Doris Lessing

Sleep is harder to reach and thinner, and sleeping is no longer the Drop into the black pit all oblivion until the alarm clock, no, sleep is thin and fitful and full of memories and reminders and the dark is never dark enough.

Boz Scaggs

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

Demi Lovato

I'm also very passionate about charity because it helps people who don't have as loud of a voice as I do.

Daniel Handler

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!

Charles Olson

The Canadian voice is still too rustic.

E. P. Thompson

There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.

Amartya Sen

Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.

Chuck D.

The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

Christopher Walken

It's true in most movies I don't use my own voice.

Christopher Paolini

What have you done?' he said, his voice hollow and strained. He stepped back and put his fists to his temples. 'What have you done!' With an effort, Eragon said, 'Made you understand.

Robin Quivers

We shouldn't have free speech.

Mark Twain

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

Mary MacLane

However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.

Ovid

Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

Jimmy Wales

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

Bible Bible

And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?