Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

Joe Torre

Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me.

Jo Beverley

Flee and your bad behavior will be fixed in people's minds. Return, seem in goo spirits, and everyone will doubt their own memory of events.

Jimmy Carter

A joyous occasion is never quite as wonderful as when it becomes a memory.

John C. Wright

I can't wait to get my memory back. It sounds like I am a really cool person

John C. McGinley

I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!

James Thurber

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

James Thurber

Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley.

James Stephens

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

James Packer

I have a million small memories that will sustain me through life.

James Patterson

You have a memory chip that small implanted in you,” he verified. I nodded, guessing this was somewhat worse than having cooties.

James Montgomery

Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years.

James Nachtwey

I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve to remind us that history's deepest tragedies concern not the great protagonists who set events in motion but the countless ordinary people who are caught up in those events and torn apart by their remorseless fury. I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.

James Martineau

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

James Martineau

Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.

Norman Vincent Peale

Hold the thought of all elements of the body working together in perfect rhythm.

Emilie Autumn

I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.

Emile M. Cioran

Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.

Emile M. Cioran

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

Emile M. Cioran

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

Ellen Goodman

It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in the fleeting video of time.

Ellen Glasgow

She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.

Ellen Glasgow

Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.

Ellen DeGeneres

I don't think I remember my first memory.

Eric Ripert

I have more eating memories than cooking memories and many memories of being in the kitchen - I was always attracted to the kitchen - but nobody ever wanted me to touch anything.

Eric Ripert

For me, food is about memories, feelings, emotions, and so is Le Bernardin, and that's why it's not just a restaurant.

Eric S. Raymond

Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions of man-hours - often, just to get marginal gains in the use of some resource much less expensive than debugging time

Eric S. Raymond

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management

Eric Schmidt

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

Eric Schmidt

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

Emily Carr

The memory of Cumshewa is of a great lonesomeness smothered in a blur of rain.