Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Wolfe

...the dark ancestral cave, the womb from which mankind emerged into the light, forever pulls one back - but...you can't go home again...you can't go...back home to the escapes of Time and Memory. You Can't Go Home Again

Tim O'Brien

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your life, at the intersection of past and present. The memory-traffic feeds into a rotary up on your head, where it goes in circles for a while, then pretty soon imagination flows in and the traffic merges and shoots off down a thousand different streets. As a writer, all you can do is pick a street and go for the ride, putting things down as they come at you. That's the real obsession. All those stories.

Tim O'Brien

They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

Tim O'Brien

The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory.

Tim O'Brien

What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end...

Tim O'Brien

Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories ar for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.

Tim O'Brien

And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads out on a river when you know you must cross the river and march into the mountains and do things you are afraid to do. It's about love and memory. It's about sorrow. It's about sisters who never write back and people who never listen.

Tim McGraw

She said I bet you dont remember me And I said only every other memory.

Tig Notaro

I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.

Tim Allen

A car crossed two lanes of traffic, flipped, and landed on my dad's car. I don't blame cars. My dad loved cars. I don't have many memories of my dad. The love of cars is all I have of him, really.

Tim Allen

I blend memories. I blend them into one that's funny. I exaggerate to clarify.

Reggie Watts

When you look at a photo twenty years from now, if you look at a photo of a moment in your life, or some friends, or yourself, you just have a lot more information about what that memory was. That's exciting to me. It's like a form of time preservation, I suppose.

Reggie Watts

We're all just memories of our future selves.

Toni Morrison

Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.

Toni Morrison

Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.

Tom Stoppard

Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don’t go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one’s memory. And yet, I can’t remember it.

Tom Odell

I really want to come back! I definitely want to come back. Some of my fondest memories are in New Zealand.

Tom Heinsohn

Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special.

Tom Brady

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I've already made them.

Tom Clancy

For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with their plucky spirit and sacrifice. Unfortunately, Navy leaders at Pearl Harbor, struggling to protect what was left of the shattered Pacific Fleet, canceled a relief mission, allowing the island and its defenders to fall without support. Wake damaged the long-standing trust between the Corps and the Navy, a memory that still rankles Marines and shames sailors.

Tobias Wolff

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

Tobias Wolff

Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about what happened. That doesn't mean that at all times memories are telling us the absolute truth, but that the main source of who we are is that memory, flawed or not.

Toby Jones

I don't know if it's harder but when you're playing a real person you want to honor their memory - even if they're a criminal or someone that the public loathed. That can be challenging.

Tina Turner

I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.

Taylor Caldwell

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

Tana French

My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind

Tadatoshi Akiba

In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an atomic bombing, the vast majority around the world can only vaguely imagine such horror, and these days, John Hersey's Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth are all but forgotten. As predicted by the saying, 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,' the probability that nuclear weapons will be used and the danger of nuclear war are increasing.

Swami Vivekananda

From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes.

Ronald Blythe

One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.

Ron Fournier

Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it's hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination.

Rumi

Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ?

Tom Peters

Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.

Tom Robbins

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.