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memories book writing
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them Charles Caleb Colton
memories appreciate literature
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
memories mind firsts
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
memories book reader
Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.
memories teaching should-have
All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.
memories green lord
Lord, keep my memory green. Charles Dickens
memories husband men
I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
memories dictator amnesia
Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything. Charles Stross
memories liberty might
If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.
paris world made
What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!
paris terror-attacks president
President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks. Al Sharpton
paris car grandfather
Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris. Al Jardine
paris people
In Paris you're always surrounded by French people. David Sedaris
paris people frightened
People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.
paris parent rodin
Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it. Camille Claudel
paris white crumbling
White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street: Moscow, Paris London, Vienna all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking. Edith Sitwell
paris clothes tables
The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month. Ed Bradley
paris months six
I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment. Beau Garrett
ease heart man satin
Where's the man could ease a heart / Like a satin gown? Dorothy Rothschild Parker
ease ability ill
Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously. Earl Wilson
ease focus help instead kids past telling
We want to put the kids at ease and focus on the things that they're going to need to get past the falling-down part. Instead of telling them, 'Oh, well, this first day or two is going to be brutal,' the focus is on the things that will really help them.
ease language thirst
You can't eat language but it eases thirst. Bernard Malamud
ease floyd harder pink records rocking rocks supposed
We're going to make better and better records as we get older, especially considering this one kind of rocks harder. Why should we be rocking harder now? Isn't this when we're supposed to ease into the whole Pink Floyd groove? Stone Gossard
ease please poor-richard
Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please. Benjamin Franklin
ease matter resistance
The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.
ease way
The Web itself doesn't as much change the way we do things as it changes the ease with which we do things. And that changes the way we do everything. David A. Siegel
ease emergency ends feels financial help herself investors pressure sooner
She herself feels comfortable now and that should help ease pressure on the financial markets. Many investors had thought that the sooner (she ends the emergency rule), the better for the economy. David Cohen