Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen King

The color white is the absence of memory.

Stephen King

So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.

Stephen King

Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.

Stephen King

Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.

Stephen King

The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes--maybe even often--it's the solution.

Stephen King

The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about kids, which is a little bit like putting the experience under a magnifying glass, you realize you have no idea how you thought as a kid. I've come to the conclusion that most of the things that we remember about our childhood are lies. We all have memories that stand out from when we were kids, but they're really just snapshots. You can't remember how you reacted because your whole head is different when you stand aside.

Stephen King

It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered.

Stephen King

Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.

Stephen King

The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.

Sophie Swetchine

There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.

Tea Obreht

In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.

Taylor Swift

In my mind, I see all of my passionate memories in bright, burning Red.

Stanley Kunitz

Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.

Soren Kierkegaard

Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory.

Stephen Tobolowsky

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

Stephen Vizinczey

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Stephen Vincent Benet

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

Stephenie Meyer

How did anyone survive this world, with these bodies whose memories wouldn't stay in the past where they should? With the emotions that were so strond I couldn't tell what I felt anymore?

Stephenie Meyer

Look, just stop trying to annihilate yourself, okay? Because if I think you can do it, I'll make Doc pull me out today. Or I'll tell Jared. Just imagine what he would do. I imagined it for her, smiling a little through my tears. Remeber? He said no guarantees about what he would or wouldn't do to keep you here. I though of those buring kisses in the hall...thought of other kisses and other nights in her memory. My face warmed as I blushed. You fight dirty. You bet I do.

Marcus Aurelius

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

Marc Newson

I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.

Marc Maron

I'm weird; I have a very strange emotional memory. I really somehow hold on to even passing moments with people.

Thomas a Kempis

Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Thomas A. Edison

The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine memory is necessarily a fine executive. But if he has the memory he has the first qualification, and if he has not the memory nothing else matters.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts; that all men value the few real hours of life; they love to be heard; they love to be caught up into the vision of principles. We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and of sin, with souls that made our souls wiser; that spoke what we thought; that told us what we knew; that gave us leave to be what we only were.

Sidney Crosby

It seems like yesterday I was up there watching my first NHL game, and I was skating on the ice this time. It brings back memories, but at the same time it's something I'll remember forever.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Originally, I wanted a machine that would cost $100. My idea was to spend nothing on the console technology so all the money could be spent on improving the interface and software. If we hadn't used NAND flash memory and other pricey parts, we might have succeeded.

Natalie Merchant

By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.

Natalie Goldberg

I wonder if I don't give too much of myself to writing: I am always half where I am; the other half is feeding the furnace, kick-starting the heat of creativity. I am making love with someone but at the same time I'm noticing how this graceful hand across my belly might just fit in with the memory of lilacs in Albuquerque in 1974.

Taylor Swift

Make the most of now before it all changes because one day right now is going to be a memory.

Tony Blair

She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.

Tony Blair

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.

Thurgood Marshall

I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.