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.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

Charlie Chaplin

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Charles Spurgeon

Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it.

Bolivar Ceveno

When I moved down here I wasn't making much money, so my brother-in-law suggested I do some iron work.

Bruno Latour

You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations.

Lou Ferrigno

Pumping iron is not what it used to be. It doesn't have the personality it used to. When we started out, people who worked out had nothing. Now there is so much money involved; back then it was the love of the sport. We appreciated what we have. Today it's not the same.

Jamie Zawinski

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

Charles Spurgeon

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

Chris Avellone

I am never going to do an Empire Strikes Back ending again in a game, even if they put branding irons to my feet.

C. S. Lewis

This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

Agnes Repplier

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

Akshay Kumar

When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.

Charles Lamb

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.

Edmund Spenser

There is no disputing about taste.

Bill Murray

I know how to be sour. I know that taste.

Bertolt Brecht

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

Dick Van Dyke

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

Edith Sitwell

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.