Recalls Quotes - Page 20

• The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.

  Bill Klem

  Games, Umpires, Fans

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• I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.

  Mos Def

  Memories, Live Life, Sight

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• I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

  Frank Auerbach

  Order, Rework, Finished

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• I don't recall having a gun. I really don't. I don't think I ever pulled a gun on anyone in my life.

  Darrell Issa

  Gun, Thinking

  "Darrell Issa ‘New Yorker’ Article Probes ‘Colorful’ Past", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2011.

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• In our parts such characters sometimes turn up that, however many years ago you met them, you can never recall them without an inner trembling.

  Nikolai Leskov

  Character, Years, Sometimes

  Nikolai Leskov (2013). “The Enchanted Wanderer: and Other Stories”, p.3, Vintage

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• One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at life: a capacity for surprise. It’s easy to become so mired in our likes or dislikes that we can no longer recall that person who once responded to poems—and to people—without any preconceived notions of what we wanted them to be.

  Christian Wiman

  Reading, People, Quality

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• As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

  David Johansen

  Children, Consuming

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• Matt Le Tissier had firm views about Austria's reluctance to allow Turkey full membership of the EU last Saturday, I seem to recall.

  Jeff Stelling

  Views, Turkeys, Membership

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• Don’t recall. Don’t imagine. Don’t think. Don’t examine. Don’t control. Rest.

  Tilopa

  Thinking, Imagine

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• In my worst moments, all I had to do was recall the love that I felt emanating from those heavenly lights and I could press on.

  Dannion Brinkley

  Light, Worst Moments, Heavenly

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• I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

  Pierre Loti

  Wish, Desire, Missionary

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• I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.

  Pierre Loti

  Children, Mind, Happy Day

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• I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.

  Pierre Loti

  Past, June, Self

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• I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Enemy, Former

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• 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.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Trying, Events, Remember

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• I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our job is to give new meanings and special overtones to absolutely ordinary words.” I find the thought reassuring. It means that vast, unknown stretches still lie before us, fertile territories just waiting for us to cultivate them.

  Haruki Murakami

  Jobs, Lying, Writing

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• For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

  Rachel Carson

  Memories, Women, Smell

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• One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours´ sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Memories, Sleep, Night

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “Something New: Or, Something Fresh”, p.192, The Floating Press

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• As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Inspiration, Animal, Drawing

  Vladimir Nabokov (2010). “Lolita”, p.311, Vintage

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• And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Memories, Past, Light

  Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.113, Penguin

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• Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

  Rollo May

  Rebel, Saint, Humans

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• These people you used to see every day, friends or acquaintances, after a while they become as distant as any stranger, people you suddenly recall late at night--you remember something they said or something silly that someone once did. For a few moments they completely occupy your mind; then you forget them again.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Silly, Night, People

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• After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person.

  Ann Aguirre

  People, Gone, Faults

  Ann Aguirre (2010). “Killbox”, p.153, Penguin

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• Children of the Nephilim," Magnus said. "Well, well. I don't recall inviting you." Isabelle took out her invitation and waved it like a white flag. "I have an invitation. These"--she indicated the rest of the group with a grand wave of her arm--"are my friends." Magnus plucked the invitation out of her hand and looked at it with fastidious distaste. "I must have been drunk," he said. He threw the door open. "Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests." Jace looked at him, "Even if one of them spills something on my new shoes?" "Even then." - 219

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Hands, Shoes

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• I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

  Carl Jung

  Beautiful, Scary, Solitude

  Carl Gustav Jung (2009). “Liber Novus”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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