Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen King

Time's the thief of memory

Stephen King

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

Ellen Potter

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

Ray Kurzweil

Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.

Ray Davies

Oh, demon alcohol, sad memories I can't recall.

I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say Yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that. I'll just restart Apache every 10 requests.

Raul Julia

A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.

Ransom Riggs

If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it.

Randy Carlyle

You have to have short-term memory. You have to be able to move on to the next practice, the next game, turn the page and keep your emotions so you make the decisions that are best for your group.

Rajneesh

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

Thomas Jefferson

I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to be. This may be partly owing to the incessant current of new matter flowing constantly through it; but I ascribe to years their share in it also.

Robert Henri

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.

Robert Henri

The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

Robert Henri

If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.

Robert Henri

Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.

Rick Riordan

Since Percy’d lost his memory,his whole life was one big fillin-the-blank. He was____________________, from____________________. He felt like ____________________, and if the monsters caught him, he’d be____________________.

Taylor Caldwell

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

Taylor Caldwell

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

Tana French

My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind

Tadatoshi Akiba

In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an atomic bombing, the vast majority around the world can only vaguely imagine such horror, and these days, John Hersey's Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth are all but forgotten. As predicted by the saying, 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,' the probability that nuclear weapons will be used and the danger of nuclear war are increasing.

Swami Vivekananda

From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes.

Ronald Blythe

One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.

Ron Fournier

Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it's hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination.

Stephen King

The color white is the absence of memory.

Stephen King

So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.

Stephen King

Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.

Stephen King

Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.

Stephen King

The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes--maybe even often--it's the solution.

Stephen King

The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about kids, which is a little bit like putting the experience under a magnifying glass, you realize you have no idea how you thought as a kid. I've come to the conclusion that most of the things that we remember about our childhood are lies. We all have memories that stand out from when we were kids, but they're really just snapshots. You can't remember how you reacted because your whole head is different when you stand aside.

Stephen King

It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered.

Stephen King

Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.

Stephen King

The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.

Sophie Swetchine

There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.