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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.
going-away
There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it. Alan Watts
going-away months vancouver
I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers. Bryan Adams
going-away important speak
Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else. Edward Gorey
going-away important facts
All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.
going-away lasts doe
The SEC does way more good than harm - the last thing I would do is get rid of the SEC...if accounting were thoroughly fixed, a lot of other sins would go away. We're paying a huge price for deterioration of accounting. Charlie Munger
going-away
When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away. Bob Saget
going-away use fool
Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it. Bill Vaughan
going-away horror
It'll die down like every other genre, but horror has always been one of the four or five main genres that will never go away. Bruce Campbell
going-away band should
If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place. Eddie Vedder
hearing love opposite people tires truth warning
People are always warning me that I'm going to burn out. But the truth is, the only thing that tires me out is hearing people tell me that. Opposite shows, opposite coasts, opposite demographics, opposite everything - I love it, man! Michael Strahan
hearings november ready start until
We're not going to start these hearings until you're prepared. And she said November 7th she'd be ready to go. Arlen Specter
hearing drawbacks spells
One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them. Bill Nye
hearing knows played practices song week wing
We have no practices at all. We just wing it. It's spontaneous. No one knows what to expect. Even hearing the same song we played the week before, it could come off different. Everything's off the wall. It comes out better that way. Golf Brooks
hearings hold
We want everything so if hearings aren't justified, we won't hold them, ... If they are, we will. Orrin Hatch
hearing concerts performances
When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered. Charles Rosen
hearing needs environment
When we’ve ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment. Beth Moore
hearing witch hunts
Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts. Desi Arnaz
hearing reach
When they tell him to do something he doesn't want to do, he'll reach up and take off his hearing aid.