Forget It Quotes - Page 17

• That's the clarinet I used to use... but it's just a piece of wood, you know, with holes in it and they put these clumsy keys on it and you're supposed to try to take that and manipulate it with throat muscles and chops... and try to make something happen that never happened before. And when you do, you never forget it. It beats sex, it beats anything.

  Artie Shaw

  Sex, Keys, Trying

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• We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  World, Taste, Forget

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• The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

  Neal Shusterman

  Way, Impossible, Forget

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• That was a great time, the summer of '71 - I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it!

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Summer, Remember, Never Forget

  Lemmy Kilmister (2012). “White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Wisdom, Lying, Jail

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• Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement; and the pleasure of this state is increased by the low level of civilization and the narrow empty life to which these men are confined.

  Alexander Herzen

  Strong, Men, Civilization

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• Borg's won Wimbledon four straight times and out there he has just lost an 18-16 tie breaker. You'd think maybe once he'd let up and say forget it. But oh, no way.

  John McEnroe

  Thinking, Ties, Tennis

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• The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper time, give them the fullest attention.

  Robert Grudin

  Giving, Mind, Attention

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the most remarkable. . . . Where it reaches its highest development, in the human mind, we forget it completely. . . . So important does nature regard this unseen combustion . . . that a starving man's brain will be protected to the last while his body is steadily consumed.

  Loren Eiseley

  Nature, Men, Animal

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• A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood... How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on - remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Writing, Wine, Glasses

  "The Feynman Lectures on Physics (volume I; lecture 3: "The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences")". Book by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands, 1964.

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• We're in a league of our own darling and don't you forget it.

  Zacky Vengeance

  League, Forget, Darling

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• Let the moment go. . . . Don't forget it for a moment, though. Just remembering you've had an "and" when you're back to "or" makes the "or" mean more than it did before. . . . Now I understand! And it's time to leave the woods.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Time, Mean, Understanding

  Stephen Sondheim, Hudson Talbott, James Lapine (2002). “Into the Woods”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build a cloud chamber? Then go on doing things like that. Develop your talents wherever they may lead. Damn the torpedoes - full speed ahead!If you have any talent,or any occupation that delights you,do it, and do it to the hilt

  Richard P. Feynman

  Clouds, Delight, Goes On

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• Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.

  Andy Warhol

  Believe, Mirrors, Light

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it

  John Wooden

  Mistake, Four, Forget

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• You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.

  Karel Appel

  Children, Evolution, Forget

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• Iblis (satan) himself recognizes the Lordship of Allah, but wants the human being to forget it

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Want, Satan, Forget

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• Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.

  William Feather

  Motivational, Blow, People

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• There exists a creature which is perfectly harmless; when it passes before your eyes you scarcely notice it and forget it again immediately. But as soon as it invisibly gets somehow into your ears, it develops there, it hatches, as it were, and cases have been known where it was penetrated even into the brain and has thriven devastatingly in that organ, like those pneumococci in dogs that gain entrance through the nose.This creature is one's neighbor.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dog, Eye, Brain

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). “Prose and poetry”, Burns & Oates

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• I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Poverty, Becoming

  FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Apr 15, 2013

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• You can see the cruelest part of the world, the cruelest part. But then on the other side, you see the most beautiful part. Do you know? It's like you go from one extreme to the next. And they're both worth it because you wouldn't see the one without the other one. But that cruel part is damn cruel and you'll never forget it. But that heaven is heaven.

  Britney Spears

  Beautiful, Heaven, World

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• Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Luck, Fool, Forget

  Phyllis Bottome (1954). “The Secret Stair”

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• Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Doe, Needs, Cinema

  "Portrait of the artist: Baz Luhrmann, director". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2010.

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• The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Writing, Ideas, Psychics

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• He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kindness, Ungrateful, Return

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 393-94, De Beneficiis, III. 1, 1922.

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