Famous Quotes & Sayings

In fact, sometimes when I look at something my memory does work. I remember the panel where Alex Toth told me, "Mike, if you really don't understand all that, you don't need to put it on there."

Mickey Rooney

Hollywood has unfortunately become a memory. It's nothing but a sign on the side of a hill.

Mickey Rourke

I started having some memory-loss issues. I took a neurological exam, and they said, "Well, you should stop fighting now." And I kept begging them for one more fight, one more fight, and the doctor said to me, "How much are they going to pay you?" I was supposed to fight three more times, and one would have been for a cruiser belt. So I said, "I just need to fight three more times." He said, "Listen, you can't even get hit in the head one more time, your neuro is so bad."

Mickey Rourke

I get a call, and it's Howard Bingham, and he's got the champ on the line.Muhammad Ali didn't remember me from being a kid, but he was going, "Yeah, you're in bed, and you want your mama with you . . ." It really helped so much. He spent 15 or 20 minutes on the phone with me. That's a memory that I'll always cherish.

Kirsten Dunst

It'd be nice to feel that claustrophobic feeling or the anxiety that the film Melancholia produces, but for me I look at it and think about what I was doing that day, where we shot it... It's kind of like a weird memory. It's more a photo album of memories than being able to feel connected to myself. It's not easy to do.

Kiki Smith

I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some other lifetime.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.

Karl Marx

Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world.

Jules Verne

In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.

Julia Child

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

Julia Cameron

Soul is not about function; it's about beauty, form, and memory.

Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you've touched.

Kristin Chenoweth

I love London because of the history. The times I've been there have been some of the best memories in my life. Singing there, seeing great theater - and the people like a Southern accent.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

Kristin Hannah

Memories are who we are. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you. Love and Memories are what last.

Knut Hamsun

Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop and search their memories merely to know who these so-called great men might be. And so the great man is left with the crowd, the worthless majority...for his admirers.

Murray Walker

Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has...

Mohsin Hamid

I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. Not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feverish hunger of the hypocrite. I let her go every evening only because there's nothing I can do to stop her.

Milos Forman

Memories are doing funny things to us.

Mike Thibault

The reality is that the NBA was in worse shape in the '70s and early '80s. People have convenient memories.

J. K. Rowling

From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.

J. K. Rowling

You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I think all writing is done through memory

Guillaume Apollinaire

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.

Grace Kelly

I would like to be remembered as someone who accomplished useful deeds, and who was a kind and loving person. I would like to leave the memory of a human being with a correct attitude and who did her best to help others.

Gilbert Parker

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

Gilbert Parker

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

Jack London

But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could not immediately forego his wild heritage and his memories of the Wild. There were days when he crept to the edge of the forest and stood and listened to something calling him far and away.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I've learned that education, experience, and memories are three things that no one can take away from you.

H. P. Lovecraft

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

Grandma Moses

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Gene Fowler

Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.

Gary Jennings

Of all that I have possessed in my life, my memories are the only things remaining to me. Indeed, I believe that memories are the only real treasure any human can hope to hold always.