Famous Quotes & Sayings

Penelope Lively

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

Penelope Lively

The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time itself-can it be linear when all these snatches of other presents exist at once in your mind? A very elusive and tricky concept, time.

Penelope Lively

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

Penn Jillette

Cheerios bring back memories. I actually don't think I ate them much as a kid, though; maybe it's some sort of Jungian memory, I don't know. But they have so much sugar, it's great.

Paulo Coelho

When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.

Paulo Coelho

And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.

Martin Scorsese

Movies touch our hearts, and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places. They open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our lifetime. We need to keep them alive.

Martin Scorsese

DAYS THAT I'LL REMEMBER is a lovingly assembled and beautifully written collection of conversations, observations, and memories of music, friendship, and days gone by. It's good to be back again with John Lennon, his beloved Yoko Ono, and his trusted chronicler and friend Jonathan Cott.

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

Mariska Hargitay

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

Marjane Satrapi

Of course, when you remember your life, you never remember anything in a chronological way. You always have pieces of memories, and some of these memories are full of details and very colorful. Some of them you just see the action and it's completely blank.

Marianne Moore

We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory.

Mariah Carey

I have memories of Australia that I'll just never ever get over

Meghan O'Rourke

The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.

Max Muller

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

Max Muller

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.

Max Muller

Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.

Max Lucado

I have a lot of special memories with my parents but my toughest one is, I had, as a teenager, a pretty insatiable appetite for beer. The first time I got drunk my father found me throwing up in the bathroom. I was 15, maybe 16, and the disappointment in his voice, I can hear it to this day, and the sorrow that that brought to him. He just felt like a failure as a father, and Id give anything to take that day back because that was so hard on him. In time, my life got better, and his did too, but that was really memorable, one of those memories Id like to forget.

Mavis Gallant

... appeals to memory were never perfectly answered.

Max Frisch

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study.

Maurice Baring

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Maurice Blanchot

As reason returned to me, memory came with it, and I saw that even on the worst days, when I thought I was utterly and completely miserable, I was nevertheless, and nearly all the time, extremely happy. That gave me something to think about. The discovery was not a pleasant one. It seemed to me that I was losing a great deal. I asked myself, wasn't I sad, hadn't I felt my life breaking up? Yes, that had been true; but each minute, when I stayed without moving in a corner of the room, the cool of the night and the stability of the ground made me breathe and rest on gladness.

Maya Angelou

I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.

Red Schoendienst

There's a lot of memories here. No question about it.

Ryne Sandberg

I have great memories of being a Cub, and I'm happy building new ones with the Phillies.

Russell Peters

I have a phenomenal memory. I remember every single thing that anybody said to me, ever did to me, who was nice to me and who was not nice to me.

Roman Coppola

I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories' by Woody Allen, starring Woody Allen and Charlotte Rampling.

Roman Abramovich

Investors have very short memories

Sam Levenson

Never lend money to a friend. It's dangerous. It could damage his memory.

Sam Keen

Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.

Rumi

Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.

Rosa Parks

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.