Quotes About Association

One of poetry's great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music and image — things we recognize and respond to even before we understand why — is to guide us toward the part of ourselves so deeply buried that it borders upon the collective. "Staying Human: Poetry in the Age of Technology

It just supports my personal opinion that he's a wacko

Constance's tiny feet

And evidently it was a well-known fact that a single vicar, in possession of a modest fortune, must be in need of a wife.

Moon, can Tamarin touch your face?

That's Morrowseer — not exactly a "good morning, how are you, nice grim sulfur-smelling weather we're having" kind of dragon.

dragonet in the prophecy instead of me." She waved

Entertainment value," offered Qibli.

I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.

Smell is of all senses by far the most evocative: perhaps because we have no vocabulary for it – nothing but a few poverty-stricken approximations to describe the whole vast complexity of odour – and therefore the scent, unnamed and unnamable, remains pure of association; it cannot be called upon again and again, and blunted, by the use of a word; and so it strikes afresh every time, bringing with it all the circumstances of its first perception. This

You can't discipline the whole country. Still, Moss said dreamily, that's what must be done before they can ever accomplish anything.

Fear… is the most depressing of all the emotions; and it soon induces utter, helpless prostration, as if in consequence of, or in association with, the most violent and prolonged attempts to escape have actually been made.

If we were talking about Europe in 1000, or most of the third world today, the standard misquotation would be spot on.

there being somewhere in this curious centuries-long association a kind of love with hate on the obverse side, as in a coin.

1 + 1 = 2 is simply an induction from experience. It is in no way logically or arithmetically 'necessary'. It is induced knowledge, on a par with 'All swans are white'.

The Peace Corps was innocent and inefficient, and we weren't under any pressure to join.

because for me, Harry Potter is a Taco Bell 7-Layer Burrito.

an intruder wearing a Mexican alibi.

the great theater of belonging.

If you didn't want drugs in your country, we wouldn't have cartels in ours.

Once inside, Dennis almost keeled over from the smell of cooked cabbage. Why was it that any girl he took out had a house with an incredible smell?

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

Perfume is the art that makes memory speak

You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.