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memories writing past
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. Benjamin Cardozo
memories reality past
It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality. Brad Meltzer
memories night light
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. Carson McCullers
memories inspiration imagination
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. Carol Ann Duffy
memories trying really-great
I don't know what you're going through life doing if you're not really trying to collect some really great memories. Channing Tatum
memories grateful thinking
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. Richard Paul Evans
memories rap loss
... 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. Bret Easton Ellis
memories thinking atmosphere
I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory. Billy Corgan
memories greatness years
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. Boris Pasternak
carpe-diem should-have should
You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience. Alan Cumming
carpe-diem men lazy
The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep. Aristotle
carpe-diem way looks
To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand. Corita Kent
carpe-diem imagination-creativity average
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. Frank Barron
carpe-diem men animal
If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically. Christian Morgenstern
carpe-diem seize-the-day morrow
Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow. Horace
carpe-diem buckets ashes
History is a bucket of ashes. Samuel Butler
visions-of-the-future people release
More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future. Barbara Jordan
vision drinkers
I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me. Craig Ferguson
vision tradition virtue
No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition and the advantages of biological seniority. Bob Dole
vision satisfaction would-be
You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living. Eleanor Roosevelt
vision impossible kind
The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him. Aldous Huxley
vision size moments
For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves. Albert Claude
vision speak glances
Women's glances express what they dare not speak. Alphonse Karr
vision crystals looks
The greatest motivator of change is a crystal-clear vision of what the future should look like. Andy Stanley
vision style world
'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated. Susan Sontag