The limner's art may trace the absent feature, And give the eye of distant weeping faith To view the form of its… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two… — Tory Burch Copy Share Image
Each one of us needs time and space for recollection, meditation and calmness… Thanks be to God that this is so! In… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
it it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
He owned a whole world full of memories, of lovely moments relived and happy recollections. I'm not saying he was happy or… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
May tender memories soften your grief, May fond recollection bring you relief, And may you find comfort and peace in the thought… — Helen Steiner Rice Copy Share Image
“Some say there is enjoyment in looking back to painful experience past; but at this day I can scarcely bear to review… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Ah, they said. Qué bueno. And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love.… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew… — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
This was a voice that drew out memories stretched thin by years of recollection, like paper unfolded and refolded too many times.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers'] smiles and to… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“If memorable settings do not ring any bells anymore in the twisting lobes of our memory or do not raise a single… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Do all people have that? A face, a phrase, a landscape, an air bubble from the past suddenly floating up as if… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Whereas certain people start with a recollection or an experience and paint that experience, to some of us the act of doing… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
It is possible that, in fact, Trump's call for "America First" (despite evoking unpleasant recollections that such a phrase was the invention… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
That is just the way with Memory; nothing that she brings to us is complete. She is a willful child; all her… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
For time not only moves inexorable forward, as the underlying grid to our personal chronicle, but is manipulated by our psychic needs… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
True giving is a thoroughly joyous thing to do. We experience happiness when we form the intention to give, in the actual… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Because I actively enjoy sleeping, dreams, the unexplainable dialogues that take place in my head as I am drifting off, all that,… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
“[...]and yet wasn't there something about [vampires] that struck a deep chord of recognition, even of memory? The teeth, the blood, the… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value.… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“* * *THE FILES OF RECOLLECTION* * * Oh, yes, I definitely remember him The sky was murky and deep like quicksand.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
It appears to me that, even within the recollection of living men, the Christian faith has come to be less and less… — Frederic Dan Huntington Copy Share Image
Treat [the customer] as guests when they come and when they go, whether or not they buy. Give them all that can… — Harry Gordon Selfridge Copy Share Image
If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some things are better than I recall. Some arent as good. But the distortion of memorywillful or otherwiseis a fascinating thing. Recollections… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence. The… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“In the last weeks, we’d been reduced to spending our time together in recollection, but that was not nothing: The pleasure of… — John Green Copy Share Image