IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my… — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac's personal and very poetic recollection of… — C. M. Mayo Copy Share Image
“If you could refresh my recollection on that matter I might be able to recall what you want me to recall, but… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
Though varying wishes, hopes, and fears, Fever'd the progress of these years, Yet now, days, weeks, and months but seem The recollection… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. I have a more vivid recollection… — John S. Mosby Copy Share Image
Unlike prose writing, the strange process of writing with pictures encourages associations and recollections to accumulate literally in front of your eyes;… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
“Within minutes my 115-mile walk through the desert hills becomes a thing apart, a disjunct reality on the far side of a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
The earliest recollection I have of being in the kitchen and cooking was in the third grade, and we lived in Germany.… — Steve Ells Copy Share Image
“He was beginning to feel his head swim a bit. It all came to this, a glance, a word, a face …… — Ari Berk Copy Share Image
On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer… — William Bartram Copy Share Image
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Even in forgetting there is an aspect of recollection, a faded few moments of wispy consciousness clung like webs in high-vaulted chambers,… — Jeffrey Panzer Copy Share Image
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“I don’t remember nineteen,” Will said. “Or twenty, come to that. I have a very vague recollection of twenty-one—” He laughed. “But… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Improved memory made possible the long-term recollection of dreams and visions and the construction of those recollections into a spirit world.” — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“At one point Hoffa told Bobby Kennedy regarding the tapes, “To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory,… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
I recollect a nurse called Ann, Who carried me about the grass, And one fine day a fine young man Came up… — Frederick Locker-Lampson Copy Share Image
I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
During those years the past life recollections began. Psychic powers developed, my meditation increased and I found myself changing, over and over… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Carrion Crow and Turkey-Buzzard possess great power of recollection, so as to recognise at a great distance a person who has… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
