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.

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.

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.

Bruce Lee

I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Eckhart Tolle

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Eddie Redmayne

I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.

Adlai Stevenson

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy; but good administration can never save bad policy.

Thomas Fuller

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

Thomas Fuller

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

Sebastian Bellomo

You don't have to worry about safety. It's very safe.

Thomas Guthrie

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

Jerry Smith

Don't learn safety by accident.

Jackie Stewart

It takes leadership to improve safety.

Frederick Douglass

The ballot is the only safety.

Harold MacMillan

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

Nathan Myhrvold

If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.

Benjamin Graham

There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.

Pema Chodron

Patience is not learned in safety.

Jane Smiley

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

Max Muller

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

Michael Gruber

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

Jesse Metcalfe

I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.

Jean Cocteau

At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.

Frank Gehry

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.

George Eliot

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

Christina Aguilera

I felt caged by my childhood.

Gretchen Rubin

One of the most important lessons of childhood is discovering what you like to do.