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.

Archie Shepp

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

Diana Vreeland

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

Blake Mycoskie

The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.

Deepak Chopra

How old are you? If your first reflex is to reply with your chronological age, the number on your birth certificate, you are only one-third correct. There are actually two additional, and more important, indicators of age. And the exciting news is that it is within your power to adjust both of these other "age indicators" and truly grow younger and live longer.

David Neeleman

It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions.

Bernie Sanders

I have not heard almost anybody suggest that raising the minimum wage to the level we have in Vermont has been an impediment to our economy which is doing reasonably well ... If somebody is going to work that person has got to receive at least a wage that they can go out and live with dignity on. That's an extremely important point.

Donald Hall

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

Dale Dauten

Nothing important can be taught, only learned.

Craig Newmark

Getting out of the way is really important.

Andy Reid

Offensively, we've got a ways to go now. We need to get back on track.

Aubrey McClendon

I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

Jamie Foxx

Lil Wayne is a music god!!!!

Ben Fountain

Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.

Jamie Lee Curtis

The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.

Jason Aldean

I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.

Janet Malcolm

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

Janet Jackson

I'm fine the way I am. There's nothing wrong with me.

Daniel Handler

Bad circumstances have a way of ruining things that would otherwise be pleasant.