Memorised Quotes

#1. I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.

Rebecca Makkai

#2. I had the details of that photograph memorised.

Suzanne Rindell

#3. Not every murderer is known, not every death is recorded, not every human being in the history of mankind is remembered and not every God's name is memorised by me. That doesn't mean they don't exist, Dr.Mukherjee.

Sambhav Ratnakar

#4. When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#5. To be very honest, I cannot drape a saree myself. I have never draped one on my own, ever. But it has been done on me so many times, that now I have memorised all the steps, and if someone challenges me, I will surely be able to do it.

Sonakshi Sinha

#6. I first saw 'West Side Story' on stage in 1958. I was in the army, having been conscripted while under contract to MGM. I caught the musical in New York, fell in love with it, bought the album, and memorised the whole thing.

Russ Tamblyn

#7. Knowledge is not what is memorised.
Knowledge is what benefits.

Al-Shafi'i

#8. I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked to me because of the warning. They knew this book was not going to be the official line.

Jung Chang

#9. When I have the Bible memorised, then I'll be able to go and read a couple other books.

Stephen Baldwin

#10. My friend and I took turns taking the magazine home, reading it over and over again until we had all but memorised it, in the process learning with awestruck disbelief about such things as golden showers and fisting. I was never without men's magazines after that.

Drew Nellins Smith

#11. When I was in Marine training I memorised 'The Waste Land,' which was a significant experience in terms of really breaking apart language and thinking about how the different voices in that poem function.

Phil Klay

#12. I am not interested in splitting the white vote.

Harold Washington

#13. Lincoln again got his name prominently mentioned in the New York Tribune, though this time it was for allegedly pumping up his expense account.

Harold Holzer

#14. Money always ends up making you blue.

J.D. Salinger

#15. I believe in keeping running simple and, in regard to shoes, that would mean no gimmicks, unnecessary cushioning, etc.

Bill Rodgers

#16. Music does more than soothe the soul, it brings balance to the mind, body, and spirit.

Bertice Berry

#17. I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.

Dawn Angelique

#18. Bam! That's me off the cuff. Blunt and in your face. No editing. I think it. I say it. You read it. Sometimes I don't even think it, I just say it.

Stephen Colbert