Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

Charles Caleb Colton

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.

Charles Dickens

Lord, keep my memory green.

Charles Dickens

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.

Charles Stross

Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.

Charles Stross

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

Charlie Munger

If the value of a company doesn't just scream out at you, it's too close.

Candie McAlpine

She screamed all the way up and I screamed all the way down.

Scott Berry

There are not a lot of screaming opportunities out there.

Abigail Breslin

I would love to do a 'Scream'-type movie.

Felix Silla

Now there's a lot of yelling and screaming and hollering.

George Romero

I didn't like Scream too much. I thought Scream 2 was better.

Keith Miller

I was confident. I just screamed back then - I threw myself into it.

David Pollack

He wasn't screaming and yelling at me and cussing me. We were trying to get it solved. That's all we were doing.

Kathy Najimy

I got to scream 'vagina' at the top of my lungs.

Mark Cuban

If I can do it, you can do it.

Edwin Land

Don't do anything that someone else can do.

David Allen

You can do anything, not everything

Craig McCracken

Theres a lot you can do without words.

Anthony de Mello

There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.

Ram Dass

I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

Betty Cuthbert

I don't concentrate on things I can't do. I do what I can do.

Florence Scovel Shinn

There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do.

Harvey Pekar

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.