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.

Brad Meltzer

It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality.

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.

Billy Corgan

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.

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.

Jane Goodall

Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability.

Anton Chekhov

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

Charles Bukowski

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

Constantin Brancusi

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

Albert Einstein

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening

Douglas Wilson

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

Donald Miller

All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.

Dustin Hoffman

Peter Pan, prepare to meet thy doom.

Chuck Jones

If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it

Talib Kweli

I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.

Sophie Hannah

I love the house we're in, but at the same time, I'm hooked on the romance of house-hunting.

Pat Coleman

It hooked me and the rest of the school and was our impetus to really push into the technology area.

Kevin Mench

I just ran into one. I hooked it, like my 3-iron.

Johnny Gimble

I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.

Robert Brown

They were real nice people. They hooked me up with FEMA. From the time that I got here it was beautiful, everyone was real nice-they were superbly nice.

Will Hobbs

Pacing has become more important than ever, largely because of other media. I've always tried to start my stories out with a bang, something that will hook their attention.