Unrecorded Quotes

#1. The Enlightenment taught that observation unrecorded was knowledge lost.

Stephen E. Ambrose

#2. [ ... ] to catch those unrecorded gestures, those unsaid or half-said words, which form themselves, no more palpably than the shows of moths on the ceiling, when women are alone, unlit by the capricious and coloured light of the other sex.

Virginia Woolf

#3. Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused,'" Gabriel quoted. "One of the unrecorded Beatitudes.

Terri Garey

#4. The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

Barbara Tuchman

#5. I began to see, in the place of emptiness, presence. I began to see not only the visible landscape but the invisible one, a landscape in which history, unrecorded and unremembered as it is, had transmuted itself into an always present spiritual dimension.

Sharon Butala

#6. I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!

Edward Weston

#7. An unrecorded goal is only a wish.

Paul R. Timm

#8. How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.

Brewster Kahle

#9. There are no spare unrecorded encapsulated moments in which we can behave 'anyhow' and then expect to resume life where we left off.

Iris Murdoch

#10. People represented in book or film travel vast oceans of life unrecorded; studeo time costs money, and pens grow heavy.

Adrian Lamo

#11. The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

Iris Chang

#12. In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one thousand people, but the event is rarely discussed, and the names of the victims are largely unrecorded today.

Evan Osnos

#13. His life was unrecorded; who is there to write down the lives of ordinary people?

Alexander McCall Smith

#14. Alexander was laid in state in the city he had founded. A previous imperial visit had not been a complete success; Augustus, passing his hands over the inspirational features of the conqueror's corpse, broke off his nose. Whether it was repaired or the emperor removed it as a relic is unrecorded.

Elizabeth Speller

#15. How had so large a population of Americans disappeared into a largely unrecorded oblivion of poverty and obscurity?

Douglas A. Blackmon

#16. I learned that music comes from the voice, the rhythm and the heart of each person, and that the musicality of those unrecorded melodies could lift the curtain of fog, pass through windows and screens to waken us as gently as a morning lullaby.

Kim Thuy

#17. I did not understand, taking those pictures, that history must be collected while the subject exists. If not, what goes unrecorded can fill an ocean.

Susanna Daniel

#18. It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.

Francois Guizot

#19. We are voyagers, discoverers
of the not-known,
the unrecorded;
we have no map;
possibly we will reach haven,
heaven.

H.D.

#20. If I have to wait, I read; if I wake in the night, I feel along the shelf for a book. Swelling, perpetually augmented, there is a vast accumulation of unrecorded matter in my head.

Virginia Woolf

#21. I've discovered that life doesn't always turn on the obvious things - people dying, marriages, all the stuff that gets carved on the tombstones - but little unrecorded things too.

Eve Chase

#22. The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Carl Jung

#23. Sparse on the mesa the dry weeds lashed in the wind like the earth's long echo of lance and spear in old encounters forever unrecorded.

Cormac McCarthy

#24. He had rid my inherited house of a lustful ghost, opened my eyes to a concealed world of strange forces and arcane knowledge, and buggered me twice.

K.J. Charles

#25. Nothing's amusing that isn't spiteful.

Leo Tolstoy

#26. I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.

Jami Attenberg

#27. He's happier." Sully stares down at me. "He's happier with you too, you know." We're both smiling for a long moment. Being the cause of someone's happiness, well - that feels like love, doesn't it?

Krista Ritchie

#28. I never considered myself a trainer, I considered myself a teacher.

Ray Arcel

#29. I don't like saying 'no' to people, and I'm going to have to learn how to say 'no' more.

Eric Betzig

#30. Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion. Selecting this development as my first major construction project has been a simple decision. It will underpin not only my values for environmentally friendly architecture, but also embrace my career in entertainment

Brad Pitt

#31. Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game

Morgan Wootten

#32. I had a lovely childhood in Ireland, riding, hunting, and a great big, bare, draughty house with lots and lots of sun in it. If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you, can they? It was afterwards - when I grew up - that things seemed always to go wrong.

Agatha Christie

#33. If you're talking about what you did yesterday, you're not doing much today.

James Andrews

#34. But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.

Damien Hirst

#35. Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?

Franz Marc

#36. Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.

Tim Berners-Lee