Famous Quotes & Sayings

Azar Nafisi

I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.

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.

Brad Meltzer

Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.

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.

Linda Hall

Primarily it's women who will come in and say, 'These are the things that I am wanting, and I want to register for them so when my husband comes in he knows what I want,'

Lynn Caine

Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die.

Jane Green

I am divorced, and one of the things I am tremendously grateful for is that my ex-husband and I made a decision to go through mediation. I knew a trial would drag on for years, would cost me everything, but worse, would be devastating for our four small children.

Cameron Diaz

I'm not looking for a husband or marriage or not not looking for that stuff. I'm living, not thinking what I should or shouldn't be doing with my life.

Jane Wyman

It's not because I'm bitter or because I don't agree with him politically. I've always been a registered Republican. But it's bad taste to talk about ex-husbands and ex-wives, that's all. Also, I don't know a damn thing about politics.

Aristotle

As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.

David Nicholls

She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front of her face. 'Unfortunately I didn't realise there was a French Revolutionary theme.' 'The Marie-Antoinette thing?' said Dexter. 'Well at least we know there'll be cake.

Amy Levy

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood

Dolly Parton

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

Tammie Adair

The big thing was just getting them to focus. We just want them to take with them a positive attitude and still have their goals and dreams in focus.

Sufjan Stevens

program. ''It puts us in the attitude of respect for our audience. I think it's important on every level to have a kind of attitude of unification in some way. . . . I don't really have that naturally. I'm not a great performer, so we have to do everything we can, do the exercises, to prepare.

John Concannon

The strength of our team is our defense. Their attitudes have been wonderful.

Ashton Eaton

I knew I could compete with most people in high school. It didn't quite give me an attitude, but it made me think I didn't have to try hard sometimes.

Azar Nafisi

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.

Ayn Rand

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

Brian Tracy

For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

Brenda Ueland

Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me... to try to know them without my mind pressing against theirs, or arguing or changing the subject. No. My attitude is: "Tell me more. This person is showing me his soul. It is a little dry and meager and full of grinding talk just now, but presently he will begin to think, not just automatically to talk. He will show his true self. Then he will be wonderfully alive."