Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. G. Ballard

Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.

J. D. Salinger

How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire

J. D. Salinger

If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.

Lou Reed

I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories

Lou Reed

To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.

Lou Reed

They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in Rockland State Hospital to discourage homosexual feelings. The effect is that you lose your memory and become a vegetable. You can't read a book because you get to page 17 and have to go right back to page one again.

Lois Lowry

It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.

Lois Lowry

Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.

Lois Lowry

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

Lois Lowry

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

Lois Lowry

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

Manolo Blahnik

You'd see extraordinary-looking people around in the '70s. It was so exciting! You'd have mad people, like Gerlinde [Kostiff] riding around on her bicycle with a huge hat. Everybody was doing things. I don't have any bad memories of that period.

Madeleine Peyroux

No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone!

Madeleine L'Engle

But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

Louisa May Alcott

I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned, help on to the next, each growing richer, happier and higher, carrying with it only the real memories of what has gone before.

Louisa May Alcott

Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.

John Green

I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?

John Green

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.

John Green

If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?

John Green

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

John Gardner

I know everything, you see,' the old voice wheedled. 'The beginning, the present, the end. Everything. You now, you see the past and the present, like other low creatures: no higher faculties than memory and perception. But dragons, my boy, have a whole different kind of mind.' He stretched his mouth in a kind of smile, no trace of pleasure in it. 'We are from the mountaintop: all time, all space. We see in one instant the passionate vision and the blowout.

John Fowles

He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.

Jonathan Lethem

The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.

Jonathan Ive

The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.

Jonathan Carroll

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

Jonathan Carroll

My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.

Joyce Carol Oates

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

Joyce Carol Oates

Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense.

Joyce Carol Oates

What is memory but the repository of things doomed to be forgotten, so you must have History. You must have labor to invent History. Being faithful to all that happens to you of significance, recording days, dates, events, names, sights not relying merely upon memory which fades like a Polaroid print where you see the memory fading before your eyes like time itself retreating.

Joyce Carol Oates

What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.

Joyce Carol Oates

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.