Recalls Quotes
28 quotes by 28 authors
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Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's…
— Louis Aragon
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A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed for a fancy…
— Henry James
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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth,-as some kinds of creatures do their food; to be ruminated upon.
— Thomas Hartwell Horne
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This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of…
— Charles Orville Whitley
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Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.
— Georg Trakl
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An Islamic writer recalls her joy in the clothes she wore as a young girl at a wedding: They were always in beautiful bright colors:…
— Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
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Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and…
— Dennis Lehane
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In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is…
— Auguste Rodin
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I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.
— Mos Def
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When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of…
— Arlene Croce
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"Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I…
— Anton Chekhov
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The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, "When it was completed some of the natives said among themselves, 'That house…
— Sarah Vowell
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The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no…
— Gerhard Richter
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Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth.
— George Horne
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How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood,…
— Samuel Woodworth
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The only remarkable thing about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II is the insistent manner in which it recalls how much better his original…
— Vincent Canby
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes…
— Paracelsus
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