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.

Carole Bouquet

At night, I love to look in the houses. When I was little, I did that much more, when I was so bored. It might be awful in those houses, of course, but I still speculate about them in a romantic way. Its the same if you are famous: you are in the light, and most people have fantasies about you, but these fantasies have nothing to do with reality.

Carl Barat

When I said there was only one Judy Dench, I was, of course, referring to myself.

C. S. Lewis

A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.

Aaron Sorkin

Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.

Aaron Sorkin

Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.

Charlie Daniels

I can't imagine not having a reason to get out of bed at night.

Charles de Lint

You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

Charles Dickens

For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.

Charles Caleb Colton

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

Dean Koontz

This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

Ann Voskamp

I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.

Barry Lopez

Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. It is not a thing, Eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. To live in Eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously attended to, imaginatively maintained through time. Altogether we call this beauty.

John Steinbeck

No one who is young is ever going to be old.

John Steinbeck

Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?

John Steinbeck

We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

Marie Lu

When had Eden grown up? I feel like I blinked and missed it.

Matthew Simpson

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.