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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
women may too-much
I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner. Arthur Conan Doyle
women worry needs
What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have. Cameron Diaz
women heart mind
With women, the heart argues, not the mind. Jane Austen
women optimistic memorable
A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? Jane Wagner
women lasts next
Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one. Bella Abzug
women justice weakness
The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious. Arthur Schopenhauer
women office religion
If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...? Elizabeth Cady Stanton
women past lines
There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them. Doris Lessing
women religion cards
i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right Ani Difranco
smell feelings chemicals
Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell. Charles Kingsley
smell mute
Smell is the mute sense, the one without words. Diane Ackerman
smell bread taste
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt. George Herbert
smell feet air
At 10,000 feet, the 3 parachutes would come out, a little lower the pressure of the atmosphere outside was greater than inside, and we could smell the salt air and it was very encouraging to return to earth. Buzz Aldrin
smell hair waiting
I'll usually wash my hair and let it air-dry wavy, but if I'm just in a hang-out mood, I won't even wash it. I'll wait until it smells. Jessica Simpson
smell differences matter
All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree. Rebecca West
smell funny-food spoiled
Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is. P. J. O'Rourke
smell choices would-be
Oliver: You turned me down. So why, I wonder, did you decide Amelie would be a better choice? Claire: She smells better. And she made me cookies. Rachel Caine
smell clothes creating
And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.' Peter Ackroyd