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  • The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History . -- Thomas Hobbes
  • Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register. -- Steve Lacy
  • Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. -- Katherine Mansfield
  • History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. -- Edward Gibbon
  • Register my money, for the money gymnastic. Cause I make it flip now they be lookin all nasty. -- Nicki Minaj
  • The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid. -- Timothy M. Dolan
  • I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register. -- Mike Tyson
  • Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded. -- Fulton J. Sheen
  • Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money. -- Joey Bishop
  • My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception. -- Jimmy Carter
  • Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man. -- Thomas Browne
  • The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded. -- Catherine Helen Spence
  • I like What Goes Around Comes Around for old concert tees. Oh man, I got this 'Sgt. Pepper' cartoon Beatles shirt there; it was, like, $300. I didn't even know how much it cost - I thought it was gonna be, like, $80 at most - till I got to the register and was like, 'Oh mah gawd!' Good Lord. But it's classic vintage rock, you know? -- Kid Cudi
  • God's call doesn't register in a vacuum; only a person who is committed to doing God's will can receive a call. -- Thomas Hale
  • I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out. -- Ray Romano
  • What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately. -- John Steinbeck
  • Our brains are too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of existence at the quantum level thousands of times per second. -- Deepak Chopra
  • The fate of our country is now in the hands of people who don't think about what they want until they get right up to the register at McDonald's. -- Stephen Colbert
  • And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art. -- Ezra Pound
  • Overspending is as certain a part of the holiday season as overeating. But pushing away from both the table and the cash register at least a little bit sooner can make the post-holiday hangover hurt a little bit less. -- Jeffrey Kluger
  • We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist: moving beyond cultural fascism and vicious narratives of racial privilege and superiority that tear at the fabric of "e pluribus unum. -- Michael Eric Dyson
  • The human face is the organic seat of beauty.... It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul. -- Eliza Farnham
  • Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere. And if it isn't paid at the cash register, it's charged to the environment or to the public purse in the form of subsidies. And it's charged to your health. -- Michael Pollan
  • Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies. -- Alfred North Whitehead
  • You gotta make your own way. You gotta find a way. You gotta get it done. It's hard. It's tough. That's what I tell my students every day in class. I've been very fortunate. Some people might call me a hardhead, but I'm not going to let other people dictate to me who I should be or the stories I should tell. That doesn't register with me. -- Spike Lee
  • History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. -- Voltaire
  • If you have to drag somebody to register, they're not highly motivated. -- Roger Stone
  • History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. -- Edward Gibbon
  • Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed. -- Henri Bergson
  • A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals. -- Tommy Lee
  • From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change. -- David Suzuki
  • Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it... every step of the way is mind over matter... We override our brains all the time. -- Deepak Chopra
  • I often laugh and say I should go down to the Department of the Interior and register as an endangered species. I'm a gay man over 60 and I'm alive. -- David Mixner
  • The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates. -- George Jackson
  • Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote. -- Jesse Jackson
  • I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know? -- Jello Biafra
  • I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register. It's the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing. -- Joss Whedon
  • The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
  • The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul. -- Eliza Farnham
  • I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don't have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them. -- David Blunkett
  • In the 1980s, in the communist Eastern Germany, if you owned a typewriter, you had to register it with the government. You had to register a sample sheet of text out of the typewriter. And this was done so the government could track where text was coming from. -- Mikko Hypponen
  • That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them. -- Gary Oldman
  • I'm not one of those kind of people who does the observational 'Hey, don't you hate it when you're at the grocery store and the line's long and the cash register starts taking too long.' I don't really do that kind of stuff. I'm heavy on persona, and I do a lot of interacting with the audience. -- Judah Friedlander
  • The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday. -- Charles M. Blow
  • Costs merely register competing attractions. -- Frank Knight
  • Madonna is a living, breathing cash register. -- Boy George
  • Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator. -- J. I. Packer
  • When I get married, I'm gonna register at Bank of America. -- Chelsea Handler
  • You can register a political objection in a number of ways. -- Nicholson Baker
  • Public problems collapse into the limited and depoliticized register of private issues. -- Henry Giroux
  • What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . . -- Marsilio Ficino
  • When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart. -- James Howard Kunstler
  • The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register. -- Bob Verdi
  • All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity. -- Theaster Gates
  • I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome. -- David Mitchell
  • Never eat in a restaurant that has a bowling trophy on the cash register. -- Warren Miller
  • Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote. -- Emmylou Harris
  • History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind. -- Peter Adejimi
  • A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity -- Richard Paul Evans
  • Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten. -- Isabel Allende
  • I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique. -- Claire Danes
  • I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years. -- Gary Cherone
  • The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive. -- Marya Hornbacher
  • If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
  • Every Christian needs to be informed, every Christian needs to register and every Christian should absolutely vote. -- Greg Laurie
  • Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. -- Susan Sontag
  • Every call you make, every door you knock, every friend you register to vote could make the difference. -- Hillary Clinton
  • A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world. -- Zadie Smith
  • Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens. -- Walter Benjamin
  • People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote. -- Unita Blackwell
  • Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused. -- Andy Rooney
  • The words fire from my mouth like bullets, ricocheting off the walls before I can even register what I'm saying. -- Tabitha Suzuma
  • I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write, -- Martin Amis
  • "Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future." -- Charles Dickens
  • It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it. -- Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • After running for my life from hunters, a girl with too much lip gloss doesn't register on my fear radar. -- Sophie Jordan
  • The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'll do. -- Nat King Cole
  • The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face. -- Suzanne Collins
  • Happy, not from anything that happens. Warm, not from fire or a hot bath. Light, I register zero on a scale. -- Rumi
  • It's just that the times I'm wrong don't register in your memory with as much clarity as the times I'm right. -- Meg Cabot
  • I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't. -- Sam Kinison
  • If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring. -- David Ogilvy
  • Increasingly fed by a moral and political hysteria, warlike values produce and endorse shared fears as the primary register of social relations. -- Henry Giroux
  • I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me. -- Jeff Tweedy
  • Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it. -- Idries Shah
  • It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores. -- Will Forte
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  • Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. -- Zora Neale Hurston
  • History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man. -- Washington Irving
  • If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners? -- Stephen King
  • I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit. -- Dorothea Lange
  • To have six billion people on Earth, two billion of whom are carrying around a warped view of you? That has to register. -- James Toback
  • It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out. -- Lucian Freud
  • A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • If your marketing is not delivering consumers to the cash register with their wallets in their hands to buy your product, don't do it. -- Sergio Zyman
  • We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment. -- Napoleon Hill
  • If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't. -- Larry Wall
  • I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works. -- Natalie Portman
  • RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.Hazrat Ali -- Idries Shah
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  • I get extra time to take the test because of my ADD. Everybody's brains works differently and I just need longer for things to register. -- Mary-Kate Olsen
  • O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame! -- William Shakespeare
  • We very constantly run this campaign to encourage people to go and get Identity Documents, to register, and so on. We'll continue to do that. -- Thabo Mbeki
  • We've all been influenced by other people...If Minnie Riperton never existed, would I have even thought of singing in that (upper) register? I doubt it. -- Mariah Carey
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  • Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came from a woman's cunt. -- Lionel Shriver
  • The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another entry in this dismal register. -- Hans F. Sennholz
  • So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth! -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years. -- Lamar Hunt
  • Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America. -- Penelope Spheeris
  • What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power. -- William S. Paley
  • There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions. -- John Rawls
  • People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote. -- John Lewis
  • In many countries, laws still work to women's disadvantage - for example, by requiring married women to obtain their husbands' permission to register a business, own property, or work. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
  • Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. -- Lewis Mumford
  • When only men could register to vote, we required only men to register for the draft. Today both sexes can vote, but only men must register for the draft. -- Warren Farrell
  • If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than as penny-whistle whimsy. -- Thomas M. Disch
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