Forgotten Quotes - Page 40

• Some very beautiful things get lost and forgotten. Just as I got lost.

  Luise Rainer

  Beautiful, Lost, Beautiful Things

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• Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Love Is, Like Love

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.89

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• I learned an invaluable lesson from a kid in Argentina when we were playing Buenos Aires in 2002. I came out of the hotel and this 16-year-old-boy asked me to sign his copy of my Six Wives of Henry VIII album. As I was signing it I asked him 'what does a 16 year-old like about this old music?' and he looked at me, quite hurt, and said, 'it might be old to you, Mr Wakeman, but I only heard it for the first time last week. When you hear something for the first time, it's new.' I've never forgotten that.

  Rick Wakeman

  Hurt, Kids, Boys

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• I am one of the lucky ones; believe me, I haven't forgotten that.

  Richard Schiff

  Believe, Lucky, Havens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And then the rose-border. What intensity in those odorous buds of the Bon Silene, making the very spirit bound as though a message had reached it from heaven. And the verbena bed is compassed with fitful fragrance. Even the pansies, with their dewy eyes, are ready to rival the violets now.... Nor must the purple buds of the calycanthus be forgotten. 'Sweet-scented shrub' indeed; for let me hide but a single one of these in some fold of my dress, and the spices of Araby will float around me till the evening.

  Sarah Smiley

  Sweet, Eye, Purple

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• Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.

  Ralph Allen

  Stars, Occupation, Shooting

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• How you play, is how you'll be remembered. Go Hard, follow your heart or be forgotten.

  Keshia Chante

  Heart, Play, Go Hard

  Interview with Entertainment Tonight, 2009.

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• We seem to be trapped by a civilization that has accelerated many physical aspects of evolution but has forgotten that other vital part of man -- his mind and his psyche.

  Sybil Leek

  Men, Civilization, Mind

  Sybil Leek (1972). “ESP--The magic within you”, Abelard-Schuman Ltd

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• It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets.It weepsfor the black people who think like white people.It weepsfor the Indians who think like settlers.It weepsfor the children who think like adults.It weepsfor the free who think like prisoners.Most of all, it weepsfor the cowgirls who think like cowboys.

  Tom Robbins

  Children, Thinking, Cowboy

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• When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there's nothing new under the sun, but there's always a fresh way of looking at something. That's why I love working with young people. They remind you of things you used to know and have since forgotten.

  Jacki Weaver

  Believe, People, Way

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The world that you see is like a motion picture. We are engrossed in a film and we have forgotten that we're sitting in a movie theatre.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Theatre, Sitting

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• I'm comedy's forgotten nearly man.

  Nick Frost

  Men, Comedy

  Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2009.

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• I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight

  Charles Bukowski

  Beer, Men, Sunlight

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• The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. Its a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and its hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Tunnels, Bridges

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• The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Memories, Book, Ideas

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• Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

  Seamus Heaney

  Memories, Fundamentals, Way

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• What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  "Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms". Book by Elizabeth Bibesco, 1951.

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• I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.

  Bill Viola

  Age, Different, Different Ages

  "Portrait of the artist: Bill Viola, video artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

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• I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Memories, Years, People

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Struggle, Survival

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark?

  Keri Hulme

  Dream, War, Dark

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• During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.

  George Orwell

  Art, Generations, Nine

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.177, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.

  Alex Garland

  Travel, England, Planes

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.92, Penguin

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• The world would be entirely different if it were run by women. I think it is true that we are more seeking consensus and don't have such big egos and have a variety of different ways of trying to get along. But anybody who says that the world would be better has forgotten high school. It depends on who the women are.

  Madeleine Albright

  Running, School, Thinking

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• I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day. That fascinates me, because it seems to be symbolic of something going on in the culture itself, and I also have a sort of innate admiration for the stubbornness it requires to actually make those things physically. It's become incredibly difficult. In North America, we've largely forgotten how to do it.

  William Gibson

  America, Interesting, People

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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