Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sherrilyn Kenyon

How long have you been here? (Jericho) Don’t know. Again, tried to count once, got depressed so I stopped. I find it easier to just go with the flow. Ease with the peas. (Asmodeus) Ease with the peas? (Jericho) Yeah, that’s not a happy memory, either. Let’s forget I mentioned it. (Asmodeus)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

There are always three sides to every memory…yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two

Sherwood Smith

Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

There’s no reason for you to know all that about me. My memories have never served good to anyone. (Acheron)

Nicolas Roeg

I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.

Nicolas Cage

I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond.

Nick Flynn

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

Nora Ephron

I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books I've loved.

Nora Roberts

Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.

Nicole Krauss

The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been embellished by details from elsewhere, fragments that survived the obliteration of other memories, vagrant data that gravitated and stuck to what was left to remember. But in the end he rejected this idea. The memories were too perfect: take one detail away and they collapsed into disorder.

Nicole Krauss

My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one level, it's about how we create a coherent sense of self.

Nas

True in the game, as long as blood is blue in my veins I pour my Heineken brew to my deceased crew on memory lane

N. Scott Momaday

Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood

Myrtle Reed

In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory.

Myrtle Reed

A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.

Miranda July

My earliest memory is aged three, seeing sunlight on water and feeling it was really magical.

Mike Mills

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

John Williams

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

John Williams

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.

John Yarmuth

I have a treasure trove of Baker memories, all of which reinforce my sense of Howard Baker as one of the most decent people with whom I have worked. While I was simply a young staffer, he never treated me or my colleagues as anything else but equals.

John Wooden

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

All we have now are memories of her, so the more memories, the better.

Elizabeth Smart

I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal nurse. I see it crouching inflexibly in a corner of the ceiling. It comes down in geometrical diagonal like lightning.It says, I remain, I AM, I shall never cease to be: your memory will grow a deathly glaze: you will forget, you will fade out, but I cannot be undone.Thus every quarter hour it puts the taste of death in my mouth, and shows me, but not gently, how I go whoring after oblivion.

Eric Kandel

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing,

Eric Kandel

Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going? It’s really all memory ... except for each passing moment.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I have an awful memory, and I have a great memory. Meaning that, if I'm trying to remember something, I can't remember it. But my recall is fantastic.

Philip Roth

Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

Philip Roth

Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews.

Philip Roth

I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.

Philip Roth

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

Philip Guston

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

Pharrell Williams

Whenever I think of the memories of you by my side, it leaves a smile on my lips and gives me the hope of the love that we will have again when you will return. That is why I don't mind staying apart like this.

Per Petterson

If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it....