Top 15 Memoirists Memoir Quotes
#1. If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.
Igor Sikorsky
#2. The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge.
Samuel Johnson
#3. The idea that it doesn't matter what over people think about you gets thrown around a lot in high school, and in many instances it's true. But I do care what certain people think of me.
Emma Mills
#4. MarkBaynard: I figured out in the first grade that it was better to crack a joke than somebody's skull.
Teresa Medeiros
#5. Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on.
Neil Gaiman
#6. I don't know how to be me and how to be sexual at the same time.
Lacey Alexander
#7. Objects are what we aren't, what we can't extend ourselves to be. Do people make things to define the boundaries of the self? Objects are the limits we desperately need. They show us where we end. They dispel our sadness, temporarily.
Don DeLillo
#8. I'm the biggest draw in the sport, and I'm a woman.
Ronda Rousey
#9. To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.
Benjamin Disraeli
#10. They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.
Yasunari Kawabata
#11. When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.
Scott Caan
#12. You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!
George Herman
#14. There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#15. Memoirists collect experiences in an attempt to capture the fluttery thing we call life.
---from Blog-"Readers, Writers and Pumpkin Pie
Peggy Barnes
