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Quotes About Associations

My dearest sisters will be very grieved if we don't go to England, and yet how can I even try to persuade my husband back into the scene of old associations where he would feel so much pain? Do I not know what I myself should suffer in some places? And he loved his mother with all his power of loving, which is deeper and more passionate than love is with common men.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Well, Sebastien thought, they might all be furious with him, but at least his court was convivial.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Her ruddy brown skin had the texture of pebbled linoleum.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
she'd have been throwing out clamshells, most likely.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Mexicans and the Japanese had delivered steadfast denials.)
~ Arthur Herman
John Locke. Now Locke was destroying every trace of his associations and activities in the alleged plot against King Charles II—everything, that is, except a particular manuscript. He took it with him as he left Somerset for the coast. The remaining papers Locke sent to a friend: "What you dislike," he wrote, "you may burn.
~ Arthur Herman
This may sound like nonsense, and yet it is true. There is around some men a kind of circle or halo of influences, and traits, and associations, by which they infallibly leave a distinct and uniform impression on all their contemporaries. It is very difficult, even for those who have the best opportunities, to analyze exactly what this impression consists in, or why it was made—but it is made.
~ bagehot walter ii
You know how there's all these rappers like Mike D and King T and Ice T and Cool C or something like that? Well, on Mayberry, on 'Andy Griffith,' they had Aunt B.
~ Ad-Rock
On 'Arrow,' we have Ray Palmer and Roy Harper, and if you call Roy 'Ray' and Ray 'Roy,' you have to put money into the jar.
~ Marc Guggenheim
There's always going to be cliques - everywhere you go, there's gonna be cliques; there's gonna be people that gravitate towards each other.
~ Colby Covington
'Vanity Fair' did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who've worked together, and I had the most branches on it or whatever, because I'd worked with so-and-so and so-and-so worked with so-and-so, and I was kind of in the middle.
~ Bill Hader
The genres of the fantastic and the grotesque are far more interesting to me than most mnemonic fiction.
~ Ellen Datlow
The names, the legends, my heroes, the College Football Hall of Fame is a really amazing fraternity.
~ Mack Brown
you may want to have your California entities, for example, owned by Nevada or Wyoming LLCs, which specifically offer protection on single member LLCs.
~ Garrett Sutton
Kings associate themselves with one god or another, sometimes Re, but generally Osiris or his father Horus.
~ Gene Doucette
It was a long sentence for a monkey.
~ Gene Wolfe
metonymy into dinner-party chat back at London beach. I
~ Geoff Dyer
You came clothed with the virtue of humility; and because God blessed your enterprises accordingly, you have stained yourself with the sin of pride.
~ George Bernard Shaw
the philanthropic banker his brother-in-law, who predominated so much in the town that some called him a Methodist, others a hypocrite, according to the resources of their vocabulary;
~ George Eliot
Good phrases are surely, and ever were, very commendable. —Justice Shallow.
~ George Eliot
I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.
~ Michael Reagan
If 'Jingle Belle' harkens back to anything, it's sort of the Harvey Comics. Not really 'Archie,' but more of a teenage version of what Harvey Comics would have become, with the type of fantasy wonderland of her and her various friends.
~ Paul Dini
For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous.
~ David Harsanyi
Are you ready to have your mind blown? Sometimes Ron Howard uses swear words.
~ Dave Itzkoff