Memorized Quotes

53 quotes by 49 authors

I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.' — Maya Angelou
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of… — William James
I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I… — June Jordan
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely… — Mary Webb
In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The truth is I'm a dork. I collected comics. I still love cartoons. I'd rather be at home on a Friday night than out at… — Nathan Fillion
I looked around the iTunes store and came across Dr. Moku's Hiragana Mnemonics. Thirty minutes later I had memorized all 46 hiragana. Now my 9-year-old… — Mark Frauenfelder
I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider; then, I'd pick up the speed of… — Stan Musial
Nothing capable of being memorized is history. — Robin G. Collingwood
Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized... — Emanuel Lasker
Everything I see is something I haven't memorized. — John Cage
A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
Titled players appeared to be trotting out game after game in which the same old hoary opening sequences, memorized out to fifteen, twenty, or even… — Steve Lopez
It is a pity that many Christians have the TV schedule better memorized than a single chapter for God's precious Word. — Charles R. Swindoll
You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order and… — Eben Moglen
A memorized scripture becomes an enduring friend that does not weaken with the passage of time. — Richard G. Scott
'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I… — Joshua Foer
I learned...every part of the body; I would move each part as I memorized it. As a child, I would lie in the woods for… — Joseph Pilates
You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read until the cover… — Meg Medina
The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating clichÃ©. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly… — Robert Jay Lifton

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