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Time flies never to be recalled. -- Virgil
Genius is childhood recalled at will. -- Charles Baudelaire
A word once uttered can never be recalled. -- Horace
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. -- Horace
If being recalled is the price for keeping one's promises, then so be it. -- Russell Pearce
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. -- Martin Amis
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled? -- Sophocles
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again. -- Ovid
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. -- Pearl S. Buck
My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled. -- Chang-Rae Lee
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last? -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd. -- Roger Ebert
I mean, that's a sad day in America when you're recalled because you did what you said you were going to do, and the public voted you in to do that. -- Russell Pearce
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
I'm horrible at quoting movies! Even my very favorites are not easily recalled or programmed to memory. When people start movie quoting around me, I'm that person who just smiles and then looks up the reference later. -- Ashley Rickards
In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while. -- George Grosz
Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went away by myself to Tahiti for a month, moving from island to island. That was a point in my life where I didn't know what was next. -- Diane Sawyer
I recalled how a lot of my older siblings would go to a friend's house and borrow records to play and sometimes borrow a turntable because we didn't have a turntable in the house until I was 8, about the same time we had a TV. -- Patty Loveless
We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan. -- Shigeru Yoshida
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. -- John Ruskin
The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days. -- John le Carre
I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world and I simply do not get it. The other variant is that I love something the world disdains. This has had severe career consequences: I am still famous - or notorious - in certain quarters where I am recalled as the man who liked 'Hudson Hawk.' -- Stephen Hunter
Words once spoken can never be recalled. -- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
An adventure story is fear recalled in comfort. -- Christopher Moore
The truth can only be recalled, never invented. -- Marilyn Monroe
Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. -- Cormac McCarthy
Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once. -- Ovid
Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak. -- William Shakespeare
Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee? -- William Wordsworth
The Jenna Situation, as you recalled it now, had been fraught with fraughtiness. -- John Scalzi
It was a really beautiful view, and Brida recalled that spirits preferred such places. -- Paulo Coelho
The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it.... -- Marcel Proust
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled. -- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled. -- Pythagoras
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance! -- Moliere
For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented. -- Marilyn Monroe
Achan gritted his teeth and recalled Sir Eagan's words. Love was not taking because you wanted, he'd said. Love was sacrifice. -- Jill Williamson
But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite. -- Richelle Mead
Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled? -- Robert Lowell
The circus doesn't stop. A federal appeals court has postponed the recall election. How stupid are we? Even our recalls get recalled. -- Jay Leno
At the toughest times I recalled how the children and the elderly looked at me with trustful eyes. Your faith has given me strength. -- Viktor Yushchenko
May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting. -- Mary Carolyn Davies
Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence. -- Samuel Johnson
Under her high brows, she eyed him straight on and straight across. She had gone to girls' schools, he recalled later. Those girls looked straight at you. -- Annie Dillard
I was attracted by the curve â?? the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches. -- Oscar Niemeyer
Our decisions, once executed, can never be erased. This is because such selections introduce a new series of conditions setting in motion events which cannot later be recalled. -- Henry D. Moyle
I recalled when I worked in the woods and the bars of Madras, Oregon. That short-haired joy and roughness America your stupidity. I could almost love you again. -- Gary Snyder
Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else. -- Tahir Shah
Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as it first formed for me. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret. -- Anthony Trollope
When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that? -- Kurt Vonnegut
This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly recalled from our own childhoods. -- Elizabeth Taylor
The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart. -- Joseph Campbell
But, when tales of the cosmos are told, this period of ours may always be recalled as that in which men first came to realise what a violent universe we inhabit. -- Nigel Calder
Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer! -- Amory Lovins
...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future. -- Daniel J. Siegel
The context for music is varied and profound. If their fantasy is to be awakened-so that their sounds may be incisive or ravishing-then the menagerie of saints and dragons must be faithfully recalled. -- Russell Sherman
The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled. -- Wilfred Trotter
(Taft's mother's) losing her firstborn had convinced her that children are treasures lent not given and that they may be recalled at any time. Parents, she firmly believed, could never love their children too much. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin

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