#own

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! ↗

— John Irving

#files #forget #hides #keeps #memory

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you. ↗

— John Irving

#begin #connections #first #i #important

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes. ↗

— Washington Irving

#blaming #down #easiest #easiest thing #fail

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories. ↗

— Washington Irving

#am #believe #how #i #i am

Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know? ↗

— Bindi Irwin

#brick #down #every #every time #falls

I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#compromise #cutting #down #eat #everyone

I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing. ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#chinese #chinese food #day #down #eat

I put music on and I drive around town. ↗

— Chris Isaak

#drive #i #music #put #town

I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#fixated #i #i think #ratings #think

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#carve #compete #good #helm #journalism