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“I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.”

Years Remember Three Ten Fifty Someday Three Years Eighty Three Year Olds

Author:Octavia Butler

“Don't Look Down” is her official debut as Skylar Grey, the singer, born Holly Brook Hafermann and raised in Mazomanie, Wis., has been making albums since she was a tween. Grey and her mother sang as a folk duo under the name Generations; they released three indie discs. “I learned a lot about professionalism, how the show must go on even though I feel like [expletive] sometimes,” Grey remembers. “I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.”

“Her seductive power, however, did not lie in her looks [...]. In reality, Cleopatra was physically unexceptional and had no political power, yet both Caesar and Antony, brave and clever men, saw none of this. What they saw was a woman who constantly transformed herself before their eyes, a one-woman spectacle.Her dress and makeup changed from day to day, but always gave her a heightened, goddesslike appearance. Her words could be banal enough, but were spoken so sweetly that listeners would find themselves remembering not what she said but how she said it.”

“When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.”

Thinking Kind Mean Remember Night Sleep Four Crazy Projects Focused Architect Exhausted Deadline Delirium No Sleep All Nighters

Author:Zaha Hadid

“There must be a connection between the lust for power and impotentia coeundi. I liked Marx, I was sure that he and his Jenny had made love merrily. You can feel it in the easy pace of his prose and in his humor. On the other hand, I remember remarking one day in the corridors of the university that if you screwed Krupskaya all the time, you'd end up writing a lousy book like Materialism and Empiriocriticism.”

Ifs Feels Writing Made Book Ends Hands Remember Easy One Day Connections University Lust Prose Materialism Pace Corridors Jenny Lust For Power

Author:Umberto Eco

“Even if you have the wit to look by yourself in a bush away from the other children, there are not many bell crickets in the world. Probably you will find a girl like a grasshopper whom you think is a bell cricket.And finally, to your clouded, wounded heart, even a true bell cricket will seem like a grasshopper. Should that day come, when it seems to you that the world is only full of grasshoppers, I will think it a pity that you have no way to remember tonight's play of light, when your name was written in green by your beautiful lantern on a girl's breast.”

“I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypnotized me. I don't remember sticking my hand in, but it sheared off the three middle fingers and left me with a pinkie and a thumb.”

Helping Hands Remember Three Left Middle Mom Fingers My Mom Meat Shops Thumbs Grind Butchers Middle Finger

Author:Jon Tester

“Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.”

Problem Remember Memories Flow Veins Blood Flow

Author:Tobias Wolff

“I eat once a day if I remember, and I try never to go to sleep.”

Ifs Trying Remember Sleep Havens Going To Sleep

Author:Richie Havens

“I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist. So I got to the club and spotted this big poster saying, 'Richie Havens, folk jazz artist.' Then I'd go to a rock club and I'm billed as a 'folk rock performer' and in the blues clubs I'd be a 'folk blues entertainer.'”

Firsts Bigs Remember Artist Rocks Havens First Time Jazz Folks Scared Clubs Performers Entertainers Posters

Author:Richie Havens

“Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.”

Problem Remember Values Wise Improvement Insightful

Book:Positive Thinking for a Time Like this

Source: Positive Thinking for a Time Like this

“When I create a sports costume, I remember that it must not look - how do you say? - bedraggled.”

Looks Remember Sports Costumes

Author:Jean Patou

“From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody Ive ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.”

Knows Firsts I Can Moments Remember Father Player Bass Bass Players

Author:Edgar Meyer

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.”

Seems Past Remember Middle Policy Direct East Administration Middle East Remembering The Past

Author:Elliott Abrams

“I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.”

Kids Remember Simple Mystery Complexes Come Up Explanation Disappointed Holmes Being Disappointed

Author:Peter Weir

“For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.”

Mean Use Hands Remember Language Taught Compare Discussion Strict Calculus Strict Rules

Book:A companion to Wittgenstein's

Source: A companion to Wittgenstein's

“The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.”

Soul Character Remember Written Forgetfulness Alphabet Learners

Author:Socrates

“Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.”

Knows Men Wells Littles Hard Remember Harm Hard Things

Book:The Woman in White: A Novel

Source: The Woman in White: A Novel

“Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life. When we forget that, the suffering we inflict can be barbaric. When we remember it the good we do can be breathtaking.”

Ifs Persons Sometimes Remember Suffering Forget Risk Sacrifice Offers Aim Cures Justified Intervention Barbaric Breathtaking

Book:Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“Everybody in Argentina can remember the hand of God in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the hand of God has brought us an Argentinian pope.”

World Country Hands Remember England Cups Pope World Cup Argentina Hands Of God

Author:Diego Maradona

“I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.”

Firsts Remember Situation Laughing Tvs Amendments Remember When First Amendment Suspended Messed Up Miley

Author:Bobby Jindal

“My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn't actually play on my own for about 30 years.”

Years Sometimes Play Hands Remember Parent Chance My Own Bridges Fascinated

Author:Louis Sachar

“Paper or razor blade, never give up And just remember just to hold out more A couple years ago I couldn't just control that thought You'd find me buskin' on the street When it was cold outdoors And now I'm sweating on the stage With the sold out tours Writing love songs for the sake of it Never to make a hit”

Giving Writing Years Remember Song Streets Stage Cold Couple Giving Up Paper Years Ago Sake Never Giving Up Blades Find Me Razors Sweating Sold Out Writing Love Writing Love Songs

Author:Ed Sheeran

“I remember running down a road on my way to a nursery of flowers. I remember her smile and her laugh when I was my best self and she looked at me like I could do no wrong and was whole. I remember how she looked at me the same way even when I wasn't. I remember her hand in mine and how that felt, as if something and someone belonged to me.”

Ifs Way Self Whole Hands Running Remember Felt Laughing Mines Flower My Way Nursery Best Self Her Smile

Author:Jennifer Niven

“I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists”

Firsts Remember Night Sound Spring Window Snow Every Night Scent Melting Melting Snow

Author:John J. Geddes

“For a moment you forget how much the loss hurts. Then you remember and it buries you.”

Moments Remember Hurt Loss Forget

Author:Oliver Sykes

“Being a die-hard Knicks fan, I remember hunting down these orange-and-blue Nikes that they only released in England. And I used to hunt for sneakers when I DJ'd in Japan. But then Nike flooded the market with a head-spinning array of color combinations and it just didn't seem cool anymore.”

Hard Seems Remember Used Dies Fans Color England Blue Combination Japan Hunting Orange Hunts Spinning Djs Sneakers Nike Knicks

Author:Mark Ronson

“It's no fun to lose, ... We haven't lost in a while and now we get to remember what it feels like. Everybody wants to be undefeated and that's what we wanted. There are no excuses.”

Want Feels Wanted Remember Lost Fun Loses Havens Excuse No Excuses Undefeated

Author:Mark Richt

“My mother taught me to focus on being myself and not to worry what other people think about you. I know that as long as I'm a good person I'll stay on the right path. From my dad I learned that when someone tells you “No” it's only the beginning of a conversation. They both have always let me know that I can do anything I want to do as long as I don't give up. They are the most important role models in my life because they are exactly who I want to be when I grow up. They are supportive and understanding and I try every day to remember what they've taught me.”

“The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.”

People Problem Remember Good Things Nostalgia Commentary

Author:Richie Benaud

“I just remember Stella Tenant and me dancing in Donatella Versaces bathtub until like four in the morning. It was one of those pinch me moments.”

Moments Remember Morning Four Dancing Bathtubs Tenants Stella Versace

Author:Carolyn Murphy

“No one remembers who came in second.”

Remember Memories Second Place

Author:Walter Hagen

“You must believe in yourself enough to be the person now that others will remember you for later.”

Believe Persons Enough Remember Believe In Yourself Believe In You Remember You Remembers You

Author:Greg Plitt

“Entrepreneurship is a process, not a job or profession. So be faithful to the process and remember that even when times are bad, the process will give you a glimpse of the future that lies ahead.”

Giving Jobs Remember Lying Process Profession Entrepreneurship Faithful Glimpse Being Faithful

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.”

Book Remember Reader Library Locals Back And Forth Obsessive

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“Loving the self, to me, begins with never ever criticizing ourselves for anything. Criticism locks us into the very pattern we are trying to change. Understanding and being gentle with ourselves helps us to move out of it. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”

Trying Years Has Beens Self Helping Happens Remember Moving Understanding Self Help Criticism Patterns Gentle Criticize Locks Remember You Remembers You Trying To Change Approving

Author:Louise Hay

“It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?”

Needs Hard Today Remember Young Stars Acting Grace Air Fans Streets Privilege Making Money Honour Annoying

Author:Larry Hagman

“I remember playing in a tournament when at home we didn't have light, because my mom spent her last money on my sneakers.”

Home Light Lasts Remember Mom Basketball My Mom Nba Tournaments Sneakers

Author:Allen Iverson

“Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.”

People Remember Party Conservative Campaigns Labour

Author:William Hague

“I am a frustrating interviewee. I'm like Ronald Reagan. I don't remember and I don't recall.”

Remember Recalls Frustrating

Author:Misha Collins

“I remember doing one day of work, and I was so good I ended up doing 25 days on that movie. And all of it ended up on the editing room floor. That was my first Hollywood lesson: Just because you filmed a movie doesn't necessarily mean that you're in it.”

Firsts Mean Remember Rooms Lessons One Day Hollywood Editing

Author:Eddie Griffin

“I remember riding across the Brooklyn Bridge about 12 times because they wanted me to keep up with the helicopter, and I said, "Can you have the helicopter keep up with me, my calves are burning!"”

Said Wanted Remember Burning Bridges Riding Brooklyn Helicopters Calves Brooklyn Bridge

Author:Eddie Griffin

“Cars can have a hypnotic effect. You can get in a car and get out and not really remember the trip.”

Remember Effects Car Hypnotic

Author:Ryan Gosling

“The thing I get out of it is the connection. I remember going to shows as a kid and meeting eyes with the people in the band, and knowing they are meeting eyes with you, and that moment, that smile, and that's your moment. I want to create millions of little moments for other people.”

People Want Littles Moments Shows Eye Kids Remember Millions Knowing Band Connections Meetings That Moment Your Mom Little Moments

Author:Joan Jett

“I always have been introspective, since I was a little kid, since I could remember, I was sitting in a closet trying to write out the meaning of the universe. That's been my whole life.”

Writing Trying Littles Has Beens Whole Kids Remember Universe Sitting Whole Life Closets Little Kid Introspective

Author:Jim Carrey

“I used to play Saturday night shows with different little groups. If I could get a show, I would do it. I used to do mad things - I used to go and do these shows and go on my knees and roll on the ground - when I was 15,16 years old. And my parents were extremely disapproving of it all. Because it was just not done. This was for very low-class people, remember. Rock & roll singers weren't educated people”

People Ifs Years Littles Different Done Play Shows Remember Used Night Parent Class Groups Rocks Goes On Lows Mad Singers Educated Knees If I Could Saturday Saturday Night Disapproving

Author:Mick Jagger

“I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember.”

People Stories Remember Novelists

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“You got to always take advantage of getting your room cleaned. You may think it's nice not to have anybody in your room, like your privacy's not being invaded. But there's nothing like walking back into a clean room. You've got to remember that.”

Thinking May Remember Rooms Nice Like You Walking Advantage Clean Privacy Your Room

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I also remember that Snoop Dogg visited the set in New York, with a joint in his mouth that looked like a cigar. There's your anger management. I thought, "Isn't he going to get arrested?" It was like he lived on another planet. God bless him, he was very nice. Who wouldn't be nice when you're that stoned?”

Remember Nice New York Planets Mouths Management Bless Being Nice Joints Arrested Very Nice God Bless Cigar Anger Management

Author:Kurt Fuller

“I look around and see the things I have, and I remember not having them. That is one thing that keeps me grounded. I'm definitely the same person I was. . . . I never lose me, I never lose the real person.”

Looks Persons Real Remember Loses One Thing Grounded Real Person

Author:Mariah Carey

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