"As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories."

-- Joshua Foer

#Memories Quotes #Phones Quotes #Names Quotes

“I want to be the best on the biggest stage possible, [but] I obviously do not get to decide where that is.”
“I don't need to do a reality show to make my mark in this world.”
“I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.”
“Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.”
“I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va.”
“Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.”
“How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?”
“In me the tiger sniffs the rose.”

Source : Siegfried Sassoon (1947). “Collected Poems”, London : Faber and Faber

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