Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Lindsay

Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

Shimon Peres

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

Shelby Foote

The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth: the same truth – only they reach it, or try to reach it, by different routes. Whether the event took place in a world now gone to dust, preserved by documents and evaluated by scholarship, or in the imagination, preserved by memory and distilled by the creative process, they both want to tell us how it was: to re-create it, by their separate methods, and make it live again in the world around them.

Shelby Foote

People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about fifty fistfights in my life. Out of those fifty fistfights, the ones that I had the most vivid memory of were the ones I lost. I think that's one reason why the South remembers the war more than the North does.

Lewis Mumford

The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created.

Lewis Thomas

The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

Lewis Thomas

I have always had a bad memory, as far back as I can remember.

Lewis Thomas

It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage of my life.

Leonard Orr

Warm water rebirthing has a tendency to regress people to birth memories and prenatal states of consciousness.

Leonard Nimoy

My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.

Lawrence Durrell

How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.

Lawrence Durrell

The memory of man is as old as misfortune

Lawrence Durrell

I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.

Lawrence Durrell

These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their own kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean.

Laura Riding

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

Lady Bird Johnson

How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.

Neil Sheehan

These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.

Marcus Aurelius

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

Marc Newson

I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.

Marc Maron

I'm weird; I have a very strange emotional memory. I really somehow hold on to even passing moments with people.

Thomas a Kempis

Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Rudy Giuliani

There are terrible, terrible memories of September 11th, things that I saw, people that I lost, the devastation, the identification of bodies. I mean, all these memories come back to you at different times. And then the other side of it this tremendous response with the firefighters and the police officers saving people, the rescue workers.

Sandra Cisneros

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

Samuel Johnson

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.

Samuel Johnson

Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is a fixed luminary, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction.

Samuel Johnson

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

Samuel Johnson

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

Samuel Johnson

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

Samuel Johnson

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.