Reiterations Quotes & Sayings

He tries to peel the image from the sticky yellow backing, to show her the next time he sees her, but it clings stubbornly, refusing to detach cleanly from the past. — Jhumpa Lahiri

How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? — Stan Brakhage

I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves. — Harriet Tubman

God made the integers; all else is the work of man. — Leopold Kronecker

I see the last two millennia as laid out in columns, like a reverse ledger sheet. It's as if I'm standing at the top of the twenty-first century looking downwards to 2000. Future centuries float as a gauzy sheet stretching over to the left. I also see people, architecture and events laid out chronologically in the columns. When I think of the year 1805, I see Trafalgar, women in the clothes of that era, famous people who lived then, the building, etc. The sixth to tenth centuries are very green, the Middle Ages are dark with vibrant splashes of red and blue and the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are brown with rich, lush colours in the furniture and clothing. — Claudia Hammond

I expect to weave through the crowd, dodging elbows and muttering "excuse me" the way I always do, but there is no need. Becoming Dauntless has made me noticable. — Veronica Roth

-Who are you?
- No one else will ever need to know.
- What do you mean?
- I know who I am. That's enough for me. — Tahereh Mafi

The diary was evidence; it was - it might be - corroboration. It might disrupt the banal reiterations of memory. It might jump-start something - though I had no idea what. — Julian Barnes