Reggie Watts (1972) singer, musician and comedian
Cited in: Beats That Defy Boxes: Reggie Watts at TED 2012 https://www.ted.com/talks/reggie_watts_disorients_you_in_the_most_entertaining_way. Posted February 2012.
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German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892… 1892–1940Related quotes
“[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.”
Milan Kundera book The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“It's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse.”
Margaret Sullavan (1909–1960) actress
from Haywire (1977) by Brooke Hayward. Jonathan Cape Ltd., p. 215. ISBN 0224014269.
“What's old collapses, times change,
And new life blossoms in the ruins.”
Friedrich Schiller William Tell
Act IV, sc. ii
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
“When a man feels that he cannot leave his work, it is a sure sign of an impending collapse.”
Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) American Supreme Court Justice
Letter to Alfred Brandeis (March 8, 1897), reprinted in Letters of Louis D. Brandeis Volume I 127 (Melvin I. Urovsky & David W. Levy, eds., State University of New York Press 1971).
Extra-judicial writings
“The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.”
Jonathan Ive (1967) English designer and VP of Design at Apple
A reference to the Apple design team, in an interview at the Design Museum (2003)
“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Variant: It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Letter to Eckermann (4 February 1829)
“The collapse of education is a collapse of the nation.”
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
The statement is misattributed to Mandela by Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam at a press conference https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202005/19/P2020051900367.htm, which was found by the media https://hongkongfp.com/2020/05/19/history-exam-row-hong-kongs-carrie-lam-dismisses-claims-of-political-intervention-appears-to-misquote-mandela/ to be misattribution. <br class="br">Misattributed