Remembering Quotes

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.

Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

That's what governors do, they wrestle with the issues, they find solutions and they move the agenda forward. At the appropriate time we'll talk about all of these issues, while remembering that our party is a big tent party. We lose when we try to become exclusive to one particular set of issues.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian 'wall of separation' between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.

I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

People voted with their hearts as they were remembering the father.

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

Discipline is remembering what you want.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.