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.

Adlai Stevenson

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy; but good administration can never save bad policy.

Thomas Fuller

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

Thomas Fuller

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

Andrej Pejic

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.

Nikki Giovanni

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Oprah Winfrey

If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself-or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

Fred Wilson

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

Elizabeth Banks

I got Twitter identity theft.

Brian Tracy

We cannot get what we've never had, unless we're willing to do what we've never done.

Boz Scaggs

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

Cardinal Richelieu

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Dave Mustaine

I could do Rust In Peace again, but I don't want to. I could have followed that formula but, God, why? I would have to have done so much heroin and cocaine - and I wasn't going to. Not if I'm paying for it!

Dale Carnegie

The thing is to get the work done.

Anthony Kiedis

My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.

Amanda Palmer

If I simply do what I've always done, it's never failed me.

Swami Vivekananda

Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead.

Thomas Carlyle

He that has done nothing has known nothing.