Memorized Quotes
53 quotes by 49 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nothing capable of being memorized is history.
— Robin G. Collingwood
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Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized...
— Emanuel Lasker
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Everything I see is something I haven't memorized.
— John Cage
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A memorized scripture becomes an enduring friend that does not weaken with the passage of time.
— Richard G. Scott
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'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
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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
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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
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The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly…
— Robert Jay Lifton
Who Wrote These Memorized Quotes
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