Quotes About Record

I could feel the weight of everything then --- the weight of loneliness, of everything that had gone wrong. I felt heroic, going up those last few flights to the top of the building, dragging that weight along with me. Jumping felt like the only way to get rid of it, the only way to make it work for me instead of against me; I felt so heavy that I knew I'd hit the street in no time. I'd beat the world record for falling off a tower block.

Is it so wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique thimbles. There's a whole world in here, a nicer, dirtier, more violent, more peaceful, more colorful, sleazier, more dangerous, more loving world than the world I live in; there is history, and geography, and poetry, and countless other things I should have studied at school, including music.

The first true eyes appeared somewhat abruptly in the fossil record around 540 million

Like human memory, the surface of our planet distorts the record, emphasising more recent events and letting the rest pass into vagueness - or at least into unimpressive joints in worn down mountain chains.

In this case, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger's orders were being carried out—"anything that flies on anything that moves," an open call for genocide that is rare in the historical record.

Colombia has had by far the worst human rights record in the hemisphere since the Central American wars of the 1980's wound down. The correlation between US aid and human rights violations has long been noted by scholarship.

Write everything down. Keep a journal. Take more pictures.

What I'm saying—I take a good snapshot. Slices of life, the kids and all, I mean. And it's important to have the record, those memories. But what you do, it just grabs emotions right out.

The past has happened, and it can only happen the way it happened.

The so-called Rad Four donned comedic Technicolor dream coats, consumed seven hundred sheets of mediocre acid on the roof of the studio, and proceeded to make Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, a ground breaking record no one actually likes.

Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with chances of betrayal.

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.

Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.

Note in the official record that we will be referred to in history as the Imperial Future Council, or the IFC.

They were the paper of record, which meant they were in the business of protecting the system

Happy the mother who bears, happier still the biographer who records the life of such a one!

Take Harlem's heartbeat, Make a drumbeat, Put it on a record, let it whirl, And while we listen to it play, Dance with you till day— Dance with you, my sweet brown Harlem girl.

the record for inflated raft survival appears to have been set in 1942, when three navy plane crash victims survived for thirty-four days on the Pacific before reaching an island, where they were sheltered by natives.

In the crisis moments, I was desperate to narrate. As I moved somewhere else spiritually, out of crisis and into a new odd calm, I was more peaceably floating through whatever was happening. I wanted to record moments, but not so intently to tell stories.

On October 21, Albo, the pilot, recorded the great event in his log:

The best record of what befell the explorers comes from the pen of Peter Martyr

was to keep a record of the voyage, not the dry, factual pilot's log, but a more personal, anecdotal

The True Way is the external face of internal knowledge, known as Essence. The inner factor does not change. The whole work therefore, is the Essence. What you are pleased to call the Way of the Masters is merely the record of past method.

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.