Biological Memory Quotes

#1. The externalization of memory [via the use of external symbolic storage systems] has altered the actual memory architecture within which humans think, which is changing the role of biological memory, the way in which the human brain deploys its resources, and the form of modern culture.

Merlin Donald

#2. What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!

Horace

#3. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

Adam Smith

#4. Nothing is quite as beautiful as seeing someone do exactly what they were designed to do, to watch someone who has found that thing, that passion, that singular calling and expresses it with conviction.

Lori Stanley Roeleveld

#5. Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting.

Jason Biggs

#6. Wealth can't be defined in terms of what we have, but only in terms of how free we are to give and take".

Rich Mullins

#7. He closed his grade book and asked hopefully, "What inspired you? Was it Hawthorne?"
I stared at him. He had to be kidding.

Patricia A. McKillip

#8. We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

#9. Don't become what other people perceive you to be.

Steven Redhead

#10. At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

Harold Rosenberg

#11. He has been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next day and a next day. Part of him never adjusted to having a future.

Kate Atkinson

#12. Being overseas at the time it all kind of happened was perfect because I had no idea that it was going to attract so much media attention and provoke these lovely people calling in and offering up their opinions and advice.

Cathy Freeman

#13. You've turned my wounds into wisdom. Teaching me to learn from my mistakes. Which ones were mine and which were out of my control.

Cheryl McIntyre

#14. The horn that wakes the sleepers! The shield that guard the realms of men!

George R R Martin

#15. He had always thought that hell would be hot. But here they were, right inside the mouth of it, and it was freezing.

Alexander Gordon Smith