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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
giving lauren thank
Thank you for giving us back Lauren and Steve, John Rice
giving people challenges
A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me. Archie Panjabi
giving-up dont-give-up beats
It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up. Babe Ruth
giving-up real struggle
The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing. Baruch Spinoza
giving pleasure
It can never be wrong to give pleasure. Augustine Birrell
giving be-who-you-are want
What does dance give you? The freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do. Arthur Mitchell
giving lectures stranger
[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger. Ayelet Waldman
giving-up struggle want
Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it. Ayn Rand
giving injustice knows
I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.
tongue should right-words
We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over. Brigid Brophy
tongue reputation praise
It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you. Matthew Hale
tongue conversation get-real
I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well. Jennifer Weiner
tongue pathos wit
Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
tongue teeth littles
I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth. Jonathan Swift
tongue prison fame
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. Ralph Waldo Emerson
tongue way loses
My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.
tongue sun lips
Some words live in my throat breeding like adders. Others know sun seeking like gypsies over my tongue to explode through my lips Audre Lorde