Quotes About Association

Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.

Ils se sont groupés, car une chose comme un pneumothorax rapproche naturellement les hommes, et ils s'appellent l'Association des demi-poumons [...].

Her friends were the hollow-chested man, the whimsical girl with the fuzzy hair, the silent Dr. Blumenkohl, and the youth with the drooping shoulders...

LCSH terms that are "orphans" in terms of their individual coverage are seldom orphans in terms of their relationships.

to put words together in a such a way that they exercise a mysterious and vital reactivity among themselves, and so release their secret content of associations to produce in the reader an experience that enriches the depths of his spirit in a manner quite unique.

Rescue, however, had many names, and the rope up which a maiden climbed to safety might be used to bind her most cruelly.

Zoyd remembered her...as a tall florid girl in a minidress that bore the image, from neck to hemline, of Frank Zappa's face, thus linking her in Zoyd's mind somehow with Mount Rushmore.

One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten

To the Ibos, Western education was a rare opportunity to be seized.

And I wonder: is there a connection between high expectations and confidence, between low expectations and low self-esteem?

Scent memory is incredibly personal; a very private experience.

You must be Kessler's blonde," one of the men guessed. "My name is May. With a y

You don't want to fall into a bad crowd." She didn't realize I was the bad crowd.

Gurdjieff says, 'You can never stop associations. As long as you breathe, there are associations. These are automatic. . . . you must not try to stop them; let associations flow but not be active .

He's a descendant of Barack's dog." Clay shrugged. "He's probably a Democrat.

You are the average of the five people you spend most time with. - Jim Rohn

the military loves its alphabet soup. At CILHI, I was issued a glossary of acronyms as thick as my arm. KIA/BNR: killed in action, body not recovered. DADCAP: dawn and dusk combat air patrol; AACP: advance airborne command post; TRF: tuned radio frequency. Or trident refit facility. I guess context is important for that one. But you get the idea. It makes a civilian want to join the AAAAAA: the Association for the Abolition of Abused Abbreviations and Asinine Acronyms.

Social media for me is a bit like tequila. Feels like it should be fun, but leaves you with an icky taste in your mouth.

Mimes! You can't tell me the devil doesn't have anything to do with mimes!-Paula, Holy Smokes

They're butterflies because...well, he thought it was cool. They eat humans.

Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.

When you mention someone both of you have in common, all of a sudden the person you're calling has an obligation not only to you but also to the friend or associate you just mentioned.

A brand is nothing less than everything everyone thinks of when they see or hear your name.

collocation(s) of a new vocabulary item. The meaning of collocation is apparent in its constituent parts: co (together) + location (place). A collocation is a word or phrase that naturally and frequently occurs before, after, or very near the target vocabulary item.