Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Shields

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.

Carlos Fuentes

Memory is satisfied desire.

C. S. Lewis

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.

C. S. Lewis

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.

Agnes Varda

I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.

Agnes Varda

Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I'm inside my memories the same way I'm inside my everyday life.

Alan Sugar

I've just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself.

Charlotte Bronte

Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

Charlotte Bronte

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

Janet Jackson

I like to read. Autobiographies.

Berenice Bejo

I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.

Elizabeth Taylor

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

Dixie Lee Ray

Nature did not make me willowy.

Abraham Lincoln

I was raised to farm work.

Bill Burr

Ric Flair was so big I heard about him. I've read his autobiography and all that. He's huge.

Clare Boothe Luce

All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.

Clare Boothe Luce

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

Doris Lessing

An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.