Famous Quotes & Sayings

Asa Butterfield

It's kind of hard to enjoy the film when you are watching yourself the whole time. But you do get on with it and try and appreciate everything else about the movie. At least that's what I do. It depends on how fresh in my memory the whole experience is.

Arundhati Roy

When she looked at herself in her wedding photographs, Ammu felt the woman that looked back at her was someone else. A foolish jewelled bride. Her silk sunset-coloured sari shot with gold. Rings on every finger. White dots of sandalwood paste over her arched eye-brows. Looking at herself like this, Ammu's soft mouth would twist into a small, bitter smile at the memory - not of the wedding itself so much as the fact that she had permitted herself to be so painstakingly decorated before being led to the gallows. It seemed so absurd. So futile. Like polishing firewood.

Arundhati Roy

Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.

Arundhati Roy

Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.

Ayumi Hamasaki

What if everyone goes on the endless road Sooner or later Over the clouds to the sky Be sure to wait for me. And then, we will talk away About our countless memories.

Diana Vreeland

I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.

Diane Ackerman

What is erotic? The acrobatic play of the imagination. The sea of memories in which we bathe. The way we caress and worship things with our eyes. Our willingness to be stirred by the sight of the voluptuous. What is erotic is our passion for the liveliness of life.

Diane Ackerman

All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.

Diane Ackerman

Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?

Diane Ackerman

I watched her face switch among the radio stations of memory

Diane Ackerman

Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success, let alone satisfaction.

Diane Ackerman

We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real sense, memories are tied to and describe the present. Formed in an idiosyncratic way when they happened, they're also true to the moment of recall, including how you feel, all you've experienced, and new values, passions, and vulnerability. One never steps into the same stream of consciousness twice.

Diane Ackerman

Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

Always have old memories, and young hopes.

William Shakespeare

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain

William Shakespeare

I'll note you in my book of memory.

William Shakespeare

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

Dianne Wiest

I shot Footloose nearby, and we used to hike. Very fond memories.

Diane von Furstenberg

One of my fondest memories was when I was in London as a young, independent businesswoman and stayed at Claridge's. I knew I had made it. To me, Claridge's is the most glamourous hotel in the world; I regard it as my home away from home. I am honoured to become part of the hotel's legacy and rich design history.

Diane von Furstenberg

My face carries all of my memories. Why would I erase them?

David Brooks

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

We want to make them part of the team. You never know when you can get a clue, and we don't want memories to fade.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

Alexei Sayle

However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.

Alexandre Dumas

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Alexandre Dumas

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Food is so heavily connected to memory.

Richard G. Scott

Satan will try to use our memory of any previous guilt to lure us back...We must be ever vigilant to avoid his enticements

Richard Paul Evans

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

Brian Weiss

You are not your body; you are not your brain, not even your mind. You are Spirit. All you have to do is reawaken to the memory, to remember.

Brian Weiss

Throughout history, humankind has been resistant to change and to the acceptance of new ideas... When Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter, the astronomers of that time refused to accept or even to look at these satellites because the existence of these moons conflicted with their accepted beliefs. So it is now with psychiatrists and other therapists, who refuse to examine and evaluate the considerable evidence being gathered about survival after bodily death and about past life memories. Their eyes are tightly shut.

Brent Runyon

I write in a rush of memory.

Brent Scowcroft

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.