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Quotes About Retrieval

When she comes to retrieve me [in the nursing home], after the tan-colored pudding with edible oil topping has sat for a while and been removed...
~ Sara Gruen
You know,' I called, 'you're the one that's going to have to explain to Max how you got your blender back.' I'll tell him I astral-projected. Butt-head.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Rex lost his specs.
~ Scott Westerfeld
You misplaced one of your men," Chad remarked. "I did?" "He'll be along shortly with the baggage. He'll need to be untied.
~ Johanna Lindsey
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~ John Dickson Carr
You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).
~ Nora Ephron
Metadata is stored in a variety of retrieval tools (a collective term used to describe bibliographies, catalogs, indexes, finding aids, museum registers, bibliographic databases, search engines, and other tools that help users find information resources).
~ Arlene G. Taylor
My goal is robbing the ball.
~ Casemiro
God has given each one of us a gift greater than a thousand I.B.M. machines. It is called a memory, and everything that passes through our five senses is stored in this faculty.
~ Mother Angelica
so hard, sometimes, to tag those memories accurately.
~ Margaret Atwood
I take offense to that. (Pandora) And I take offense to my sudden need for a testicle retrieval. You know, I would have liked to have fathered children one day. (Mike)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Oh, sheez, what's Syd Vicious doing back in town? (Payne) How'd the testicle retrieval go, Payne? You still limping?...Thought so. I got the thank-you card from Planned Parenthood last week. Seems they want to honor me for saving the gene pool. (Syd)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes: organize victory out of mistakes.
~ Frederick William Robertson
still greater problem resides in the fact that memory in relation to abduction experiences behaves rather strangely. As in the cases, for example, of Ed (chapter 3) or Arthur (chapter 15) the memory of an abduction may be outside of consciousness until triggered many years later by another experience or situation that becomes associated with the original event.
~ John E. Mack
Halt rose to his feet instantly, knocking his chair over backward, sending it clattering on the bare floorboards of the office. Hastily, he bent to retrieve it and his cowl fell forward over his eyes, so that he was groping blindly for the chair. Finally, he composed himself, shoved the cowl back and righted his chair. Crowley had also risen to his feet, but not in the same precipitate rush as Halt.
~ John Flanagan
He blinked, voice grinding if the words were buried somewhere very deep and he had to go after them.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It appears thou has a thing that belongs to me.
~ Elizabeth Bear
those who are willing to enter the woods of self-examination in order to retrieve what was never really lost.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
For the fragment of a life, however typical, is not the sample of an even web: promises may not be kept, and an ardent outset may be followed by declension; latent powers may find their long-awaited opportunity; a past error may urge a grand retrieval.
~ George Eliot
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
~ Samuel Johnson
I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.
~ Jonathan Swift
Help me find Vuitton." The priest scolded her with a glance. "You've lost him again?" "Of course not," said Prue. "He's around here somewhere. Vuiiiton! Here, boy!Vuiiiiiton! …
~ Armistead Maupin
Desde que superamos o erro de achar que nosso habitual esquecimento significa uma destruição do traço mnemônico, tendemos à suposição contrária de que na vida psíquica nada que uma vez se formou pode acabar, de que tudo é preservado de alguma maneira e poder ser trazido novamente à luz em circunstâncias adequadas, mediante uma regressão de largo alcance, por exemplo.
~ Sigmund Freud
Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
~ John Milton