It is my belief,Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,'The Copper Beeches'.

When lovely woman stoops to follyand Paces about her room again, alone, She smoothes her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone. See Goldsmith 361:47.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Waste Land, pt.3,'The Fire Sermon'.

Fromthefirst place of liquid darkness, within thesecond place of air and light, I set down the following record with itsmixture of fact and truths and memories oftruths and its direction always toward theThird Place, where the starting point is myth.

-Frame,Janet Paterson also known as Jean PatersonFrame
  To the Is-land, ch.1,'In the Second Place'.

I was born†with ready-made parents and a sister and brother who had already begun their store of experience, inaccessible to me except through their language and the record, always slightly different, of our mother and father, and as each member of the family wasborn, each,ina sensewithmemories onloan, began to supply the individual furnishings of each Was-land, each Is-land, and the hopes and dreams of the Future.

-Frame,Janet Paterson also known as Jean PatersonFrame
  To the Is-land, ch.1,'In the Second Place'.

People don't understand the sort of fight it takes to record what you want, to record the way you want to record it.

-Holiday, Billie
  Lady Sings the Blues, with William Duffy.

His stately ship of life, having weathered the severest storms of a troubled century, is anchored in tranquil waters, proofthatcourageand faith and zest for freedom are truly indestructible. The record of his triumphant passage will inspire free hearts all over the globe.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
  On conferring honorary US citizenship on Winston Churchill, 9  Apr.

No one in this world, so far as I knowöand I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help meöhas ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

-Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)
  'Notes on  Journalism' in the Chicago Sunday Tribune,19 Sep. The phrase is commonly quoted as'No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the  American people.'

In the springtime of America's cultural life, its itinerant folk artiststook totheroad to record the life and times of a people.Perhaps never again will we have an artistic record created in such direct and unassuming terms.

-Rockefeller,Winthrop
  On an exhibition of American folk art at the US Embassy, London. In news summaries, 31 Jan.

Poetry is a record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
A Defence of Poetry.

I've had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  Attributed, supposedly said before lapsing into his final coma.

The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of his agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent and uncertain† But there can be no doubt as to the elements in the record that have evoked the best in human nature. The Mother, the Child and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self- forgetful, with his message of peace, love and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.

-Whitehead, Alfred North
 Adventures of Ideas.