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.

Tom Stoppard

The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics.

Guy Gleichmann

The weather is still the dominating factor. The bears have retaken control of this market.

Alice Meynell

I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?

T. J. Miller

GOOD THINGS DO COME IN BEARS!!.... is how I climax.

Melissa Sweet

Some bears sit in great big chairs, great big chairs for great big bears.

Nick Brown

It isn't my physical presence that bears down on the disease.

Mike Cammalleri

He goes to the net hard when he gets in front. It's like he sees red, you know? He bears down and makes sure the puck ends up in the back of the net.

Robert Jordan

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

Walter Raleigh

No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.

Donald Trump

I don't like [Bashir] Assad at all. But Assad is killing ISIS. Russia is killing ISIS.

Umberto Eco

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

Mahatma Gandhi

To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.

Nelson Mandela

We can't afford to be killing one another.

Deborah King

Unless you're living in your truth, you're slowly killing yourself.

William Shakespeare

What are you doing sister? / Killing swine.