Famous Quotes & Sayings

I have a really small rear-view mirror in my life. I look at the rear-view mirror for memories and learning experiences, but I've got a big front windshield and I'm looking at right now. I've got so many projects on my plate.

Pat Barker

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

Pat Bowlen

I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.

Pat Conroy

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

Pat Conroy

Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.

Pat Conroy

I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.

Pamela Anderson

I always think back to my childhood and I have a distinct memory of me not having any idea who I wanted to be. The funny thing is that I feel the same way now. So much time has passed and I haven't a definitive sense of self.

Julia Margaret Cameron

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour.

Julia Quinn

Rehearsels, actually." "Rehearsals?" "For the-" Oh,no. "-musicale." The Smythe-Smith musical.It finished off what the Crusades had begun.There wasn't a man alive who could maintain a romantic thought when faced with the memory-or the threat-of a Smythe-Smith musicale.

Juan Rulfo

Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.

Joseph Roth

That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.

Lita Ford

I had funny memories, too, but the music was more important to me than anything else.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I've been in the business since I was 16, so I've had a 14-year career. I've always had acting in my blood. Doing this, whatever it is, was something I was drawn to since my earliest memories. Ironically, I lived in Hollywood, but never understood that all it took was getting an agent and being persistent.

Leonardo da Vinci

Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: - That is the papyrus sheets, which are formed out of several strips and preserve the memory of the thoughts and deeds of men.

Leonardo da Vinci

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci

The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.

Leonardo da Vinci

Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.

Leonardo da Vinci

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

Leonardo da Vinci

Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.

Leonardo da Vinci

It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

Leonardo da Vinci

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

Leonardo da Vinci

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Leonardo da Vinci

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Leonardo da Vinci

He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.

Oscar Wilde

Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.

Paul Gauguin

It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own...

Patrick Rothfuss

Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.

Parker Stevenson

I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey

Lillie Langtry

Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.

Lillian Hellman

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I want to visit Memory Lane, I don't want to live there.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only as thousands will do after us; but the actor - his memory is with his generation, and that passes away.