Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.
ONE BLOOD is a richly detailed, intricately woven tale rendered in lush, evocative prose. This memorable debut heralds Qwantu Amaru as a talent well worth watching.
Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
It is so often the odd, the unexpected, the apparently trifling, that stamps itself upon the memory for ever, while much more memorable things pass away like a breath of wind.
You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.
A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster.
Beauty is not generic. Quite often, the thing that makes you memorable is the thing that makes you different.
I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.
Everything in this country [the US] has got to be good looks and unlined faces and thin bodies and people running around in skirts slit up to their ass. It has nothing to do with thinking or with being a human being. There is life in mature people; it's not all over at 24½.
He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water. . . has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.
To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that's worth remembering.
We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other people to learn from these. We have difficulty remembering such abstractions, but we can more easily remember a good story. Stories give life to past experience. Stories make the events in memory memorable to others and to ourselves. This is one of the reasons why people like to tell stories.
If you're lucky enough to have captured maybe two hundred memorable pictures, you still haven't captured that much experience, have you?
Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.
I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time.