Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maeve Binchy

My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.

M. Ward

I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.

Macaulay Culkin

I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.

Lyall Watson

I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting #‎ intuition guide my way.

Lucille Clifton

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

Louis Kronenberger

The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person leaves vivid memories; one spent with interesting people has merely a sort of bouquet.

Louis L'Amour

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

Lorrie Moore

I always do the wrong. I do the wrong thing so much that the times I actually do the right thing stand out so brightly in my memory that I forget I always do the wrong thing.

Margaret Millar

I've reached the age where anyone who lets me talk seems like an old By listening to my memories, you have become part of them.

Michael Jackson

If you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up.

Michael Jackson

But if you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up. But no matter how much money you make or how famous you become, you will still feel empty. What you are really searching for is unconditional love, unqualified acceptance. And that was the one thing that was denied to you at birth.

Michael Dolan

The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you.

Michel De Certeau

A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.

Michel de Montaigne

In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

Michel de Montaigne

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

Michel de Montaigne

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel de Montaigne

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

Michel de Montaigne

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

Michel de Montaigne

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Michel de Montaigne

Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I distrust my memory, the more confused it becomes. It serves me better by chance encounter; I have to solicit it nonchalantly. For if I press it, it is stunned; and once it has begun to totter, the more I probe it, the more it gets mixed up and embarrassed. It serves me at its own time, not at mine.

Michael Keaton

To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys.

Markus Zusak

So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on top of each other. There is air like plastic, a horizon like setting glue. There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking, and there are soft, coal-coloured clouds, beating, like black hearts. And then. There is death. Making his way through all of it. On the surface: unflappable, unwavering. Below: unnerved, untied, and undone.

Markus Zusak

I also fear that nothing really ends at the end. Things just keep going as long as memory can wield its ax, always finding a soft part in your mind to cut through and enter.

Mark Twain

My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.

Mari Evans

For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills.

Mark Vonnegut

It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.

Mark Bittman

It's good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh.

Marian Seldes

I had never heard anyone play like Benny Goodman and had never seen anyone like him on the stage. I realize now that what impressed me and stayed with me in memory was - the sounds he made. He played so purely. The music seemed to come from him, not just the instrument he played with such mastery.

Marian Anderson

I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.

Marguerite Duras

She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love.

Marguerite Duras

...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

Marguerite Duras

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.