Recall Quotes - page 14

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. (Tom Stoppard)
Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones? View quote
Julian Barnes
Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory. View quote
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
In all my years in business I can recall very few people I have wanted to fire for making mistakes. View quote
Akio Morita
I cannot recall what I started to tell you, but at least I can say how night-long I have lain under the stars and Heard mountains moan in their sleep. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight. View quote
Evander Holyfield
Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, and can re-capture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty of it, the beauty! View quote
Kenneth Grahame
Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers. View quote
Al Franken
Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue. View quote
Peter Ackroyd
For as long as I can recall, I enjoyed reading. I literally read books from cover to cover. Then I started wondering where words come from. Who made them up? Who said that that opening in a wall was to be called a window? Then I discovered that each word comes with a biography. These words have fascinating stories to tell, if only we take the time to listen. For example, the word window comes from Old Norse in which it meant wind's eye. How much more poetic can you get? View quote
Anu Garg
When a judge decides a constitutional question, when he decides what the people as a whole can or cannot do, the people should have the right to recall that decision if they think it wrong. (Theodore Roosevelt)
That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety? View quote
Daniel Goleman
For energy, drive, hard work, range of friends at the highest levels, incredible recall, commitment to causes, he was peerless. View quote
Ramnath Goenka
I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for this great state of California. View quote
Gray Davis
On thy wither'd lips and dry, Which like barren furrows lie, Brooding kisses I will pour, Shall thy youthful heart restore. (Such kind showers in autumn fall, And a second spring recall); Nor from thee will ever part, Ancient Person of my Heart. View quote
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
I don't know his whole story. No one ever will, except Phædrus himself, and he can no longer speak. But from his writings and from what others have said and from fragments of my own recall it should be possible to piece together some kind of approximation of what he was talking about. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
Emotions are triggered by what we like to call emotionally competent stimuli, that is, objects or situations that can be real, like in front of you, or be in your mind when you think and you recall, and they act on brain devices that were designed by evolution. View quote
António Damásio
I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a complete thing, I have to recall things gone far, gone deep, sunk into this life or that and become part of it dreams, too, things surrounding me, and the inmates, those old half-articulate ghosts who keep up their hauntings by day and night... shadows of people one might have been unborn selves. View quote
Virginia Woolf
We wish to recall here the spirit of tolerance shown by Our Lord Jesus Christ when He gave forgiveness to all including those that crucified Him. (Haile Selassie)
If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else. View quote
Desmond Tutu
As I look back over my life, I'm struck by postcards, ruined snap shots, faded posters, of a time I can't recall. View quote
Jim Morrison
You've seen your birth, your life and death; you might recall all of the rest - (did you have a good world when you died?) - enough to base a movie on? View quote
Jim Morrison
As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger. -Numair Salmalin. View quote
Tamora Pierce