One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I was a young person once, shortly after the polar ice caps retreated, and I distinctly recall believing that virtually all adults… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I think there were six or eight weeks between 'Total Recall' and 'Seven Psychopaths.' I was at home in Los Angeles for… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I don't find that writing about parts of my life had much effect except in some cases to improve my memory. To… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
When I was ten, my mother told me to write down my feelings. I eventually started writing a book. I wish I'd… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me, "My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
You will recall that for months after 9/11, there was incredible support and sympathy for the US. I really hoped and wished… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
As I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am now a mother and a grandmother, and I do not recall that I have ever ignored the claims of the… — Gertrude Kasebier Copy Share Image
Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the… — Richard Holt Hutton Copy Share Image
Tears and fears and feeling proud To say I love you, right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds I've looked… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation… — Douglas Houghton Campbell Copy Share Image
This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
A Hundred Years From Now Well a hundred years from now I won't be crying A hundred years from now I won't… — Lester Flatt Copy Share Image
We should recall that during the Second World War and the Great Depression there was an upsurge in popular, radical democracy. In… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Not only can I not recall my experiences in my previous lives, sometimes I can't even remember what I did yesterday. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Between trying to impeach Bill Clinton, Florida 2000, and the recall in California, I'm beginning to think that Republicans will do anything… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
For as long as I can remember, I've been passionate about music. I can't recall a time when I didn't have music… — Geoff Zanelli Copy Share Image
Most tasks and tests will demand recall of isolated pieces of information, and I will not have to show how concepts and… — Joseph Barrell Copy Share Image
I have an awful memory, and I have a great memory. Meaning that, if I'm trying to remember something, I can't remember… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall! — John Donne Copy Share Image
Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets? — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I do not recall ever receiving a suggestion, let alone an order, from the White House as to how I should make… — Russell E. Train Copy Share Image
I do not know when it was, nor where it was, nor how young I may have been, but I can recall.… — Frank Bolles Copy Share Image
In all my eleven years of itinerant ministry I cannot recall any growing church which does not encourage small groups — Eddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds. — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
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