“Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.” WritingIdeasEndsCharacterFormOrderFightingBlackWaterImaginationMemoriesFireBattleShapesPaperLaborLogicSightArmyMetaphorSpreadRageMarchFlagsMagnificentInkLegendaryPowderWagonsArtilleryCavalry Author:Honore de Balzac
“Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we go back to what we've done in the past... easier for us than fighting our way through foreign territory.” WayDonePastFightingMemoriesSituationHabitEasierShapesStartingTerritoryHabitualFresh StartPresent Situation Author:Chogyam Trungpa
“To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while their masters were away fighting in a cause opposed to their emancipation, brought their blankets and slept outside their mistresses' doors, thus keeping night-watch over otherwise unprotected women and children -- a faithful guardianship of which the annals of those troublous times record no instance of betrayal.” MenChildrenWarNightFightingCausesMemoriesWatchesRecordsDoorsMastersSlaverySlaveSouthBetrayalInstanceFaithfulBrownDaddyMistressBlanketEmancipationPlantationsGuardianship Author:Ruth Stout
“I don't know your story or your dreams or the things that steal your sleep, but I know they matter. I hope you story is rich with characters, rich with friends and conversation. I hope you know some people who carry you, and I hope you have the honor of carrying them. I hope that there's beauty in your memories, and I hope it doesn't haunt you. And if it does, then I hope there is someone who will walk you through the night and remind you of the promise of the sunrise, that beauty keeps coming, that there are futures worth waiting and fighting for, and that you were made to dream.” PeopleIfsKnowsDoeMadeMatterCharacterStoriesDreamNightFightingWaitingMemoriesSleepWalksRichHonorPromiseConversationStealingYour DreamsSunriseOur Memories Author:Jamie Tworkowski
“Indeed, the greatest blessing that can follow the death of those we love is reconciliation. Without it there is no peace. But with it come quiet thoughts and quickened memories. And what else shall a man do except become reconciled? What purpose does he serve by fighting what he cannot touch or by brooding upon what he cannot change?” MenDoePurposeFightingPeaceMemoriesLove IsBlessingQuietReconciliationThose We LoveBroodingGreatest Blessings Author:Richard L. Evans
“One thing I've learnt is you should never fight it. They're natural emotions and when you try and bottle everything up, that's what can make you depressed. Luckily I have fantastic memories [about my parents] and they really help.” ShouldTryingHelpingFightingParentNaturalMemoriesEmotionOne ThingFantasticBottles Author:Simon Cowell
“I started having some memory-loss issues. I took a neurological exam, and they said, "Well, you should stop fighting now." And I kept begging them for one more fight, one more fight, and the doctor said to me, "How much are they going to pay you?" I was supposed to fight three more times, and one would have been for a cruiser belt. So I said, "I just need to fight three more times." He said, "Listen, you can't even get hit in the head one more time, your neuro is so bad."” NeedsShouldWellsHas BeensSaidFightingThreeMemoriesLossPayIssuesDoctorsMore TimeThey SaidBeltsBeggingExamMemory Loss Author:Mickey Rourke
“What happened after 9/11 - and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not - was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons....The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldHeartHas BeensWarReasonWantedUsedFightingNationsMemoriesIssuesHappenedEventsHeroHorrorShould HaveShameOccasionsFakeJustifyCashShould Have BeenShamefulAtrocitiesUnifyingWrong ReasonsWedgesRudy Author:Paul Krugman
“I've filled my whole life trying to preserve the memory of living, in the fight against dying. Perhaps the only thing I've done, since stopping death is impossible, is to show this fight. The fight itself does not satisfy us either.” TryingDoeDoneWholeShowsFightingMemoriesImpossibleDyingFilledWhole LifePreservesStopping Author:Christian Boltanski
“Maybe that's what happens with age, I thought. All your life you force yourself to forget people who have hurt you, but as you get older and weaker their memory surfaces again, like a bubble in the water. You have to surrender, because you feel to tired to fight it and push it down again. And maybe, unexpectedly, you find out that instead, of revamping your anger, those memories produce an unexpected sweetness.” PeopleFeelsHappensAgeFightingForceWaterHurtMemoriesForgetProduceTiredSurfaceSurrenderUnexpectedBubblesSweetness Author:Francesca Marciano
“We fight for territory. We see it in our Congress, we see it in our political systems, we see it in our ways of life, how separated we are. When we moved out of the cities and we lost all of the memory that was in cities, and we - one of the highest achievements in our culture is to be able to segregate yourself from everyone else, and the deep thing is the deepest punishment is solitary confinement.” WayAblePoliticalCultureFightingLostMemoriesCitiesAchievementHighestMovedCongressPunishmentTerritorySolitaryPolitical SystemsConfinementSolitary ConfinementDeep Things Author:Wynton Marsalis
“Worst memory is when I was fighting for a living. You have to fight and train no matter how bad your injuries. This at times made the fun go away.” MadeMatterFightingFunMemoriesWorstTrainInjuryGoing Away Author:Duke Roufus
“You know how sometimes you just have a memory of looking up and seeing a face looking over your crib and then remember nothing until tenth grade? - I have one of these early memories where I'm in the back of my parents' car, a place I loved to spend a lot of time as an only child, not having to fight with venomous siblings over the only toy.” KnowsChildrenSometimesRememberFacesFightingParentMemoriesKnow HowSeeingCarGradesOver YouToysSiblingOnly ChildVenomous Author:Billy Collins
“I don't have anything that dramatic as far as a performance goes. I've never participated in a show that ended in a fight in my memory.” ShowsFightingMemoriesPerformancesDramatic Author:David Koechner