Memory Of Quotes

#1. The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. - Author: Kahlil Gibran

#2. Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older. - Author: Max Muller

#3. One memory I have is there were a lot of dogs at this one place and my brother got in a horrific fight with a dog and the dog bit his toe off. They became fast friends after that. He lost a toe and gained a friend. - Author: Jared Leto

#4. But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount of dreaming, not then and maybe not ever, can change how naked and unimportant we become in our own eyes. - Author: Stig Dagerman

#5. Yes, the long memory is the most radical idea in this country. It is the loss of that long memory which deprives our people of that connective flow of thoughts and events that clarifies our vision, not of where we're going, but where we want to go. - Author: Utah Phillips

#6. I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading. - Author: Pat Bowlen

#7. Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart. - Author: William Shakespeare

#8. Memory cuts both ways; it can either provide you with tremendous strength and a foundation to carry you through your life, or it can be a demon that just ruins your present and your future because you can't let go of the past. - Author: Laurie Halse Anderson

#9. Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. - Author: Alice Munro

#10. He fills my thoughts, my dreams, and my nightmares. The memory of him, and his touch, pound on the door to my soul with such force that cracks are forming in the wood. I do my best to act like no one is home by keeping the door locked and the lights off. - Author: Andrea Randall

#11. This is why, in a nutshell, advice is overrated. I can tell you something, and it's got a limited chance of making its way into your brain's hippocampus, the region that encodes memory. If I can ask you a question and you generate the answer yourself, the odds increase substantially. - Author: Michael Bungay Stanier

#12. Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. - Author: Madame De Stael

#13. A good marriage drags a long tail of memory behind it. A single word or gesture, a tone of voice can conjure up so many remembrances. - Author: William Landay

#14. Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination. - Author: John Cameron

#15. Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun. - Author: Cyril Connolly

#16. And in the space that he had occupied in her memory she allowed a field of poppies to bloom. - Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#17. One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I'd have done even worse if they'd been on a laptop screen. - Author: Gail Collins

#18. I like very human stories that venture into sci-fi or the supernatural or areas that I think occupy a lot of space in our collective memory for the films that we loved as children. - Author: Colin Trevorrow

#19. It was with some difficulty that I got through the multiplication tables. The fact that I recollect nothing more of those days than having learnt, in company with other boys, to call our teacher all kinds of names, would strongly suggest that my intellect must have been sluggish, and my memory raw. - Author: Mahatma Gandhi

#20. It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice. - Author: Lewis Carroll

#21. In my bedroom, I squeezed shut my eyes, because it was too hard, that memory. Too hard, too painful, too much like losing a slice of myself, which, in fact, I had. - Author: Lauren Myracle

#22. Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! - Author: John Irving

#23. I'VE NOTICED, FROM MY EXPERIENCE, IF THE EXTERNAL, EMOTIONAL CONSTRUCTION OF IMAGES IN A FILM ARE BASED ON THE FILMMAKER'S OWN MEMORY, ON THE KINSHIP OF ONE'S PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH THE FABRIC OF THE FILM, THEN THE FILM WILL HAVE THE POWER TO AFFECT THOSE WHO SEE IT. - Author: Andrei Tarkovsky

#24. Memory is life. It is always carried by groups of living people, and therefore it is in permanent evolution. - Author: Eric Hobsbawm

#25. Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland. - Author: Bernard Of Clairvaux

#26. Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention. - Author: Alain Robbe-Grillet

#27. We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks. - Author: Abbey Lincoln

#28. My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it. - Author: Haruki Murakami

#29. She clenches the crystal necklace that Dagna gave me, the one I always wear. Never lose this, Harmony. It is a symbol of the beginning. The power that still lingers inside it will help you, but even as it fades, the memory of everything until now will carry you as if it were still strong. - Author: Brandy Nacole

#30. I would like to choose my own warrior name. If it is all right, I wish to be known as Crowfeather." Crowpaw spoke so quietly, his voice was almost lost in the pounding water. "I wish to keep alive the memory of . . . of the cat who did not return from the first journey. - Author: Erin Hunter

#31. Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. - Author: Will Durant

#32. The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. - Author: Saki

#33. Hell is also the memory of starving children in the slums of Armaghast and the smile of politicians sending boys off to die in colonial wars. - Author: Dan Simmons

#34. If I have one special memory, it was when we recreated the trial of the Chicago Seven - and I'd known about it before - but this was a pivotal moment in my life. If my father had been found guilty of conspiracy, I wouldn't be here. - Author: Troy Garity

#35. The harm that Albertine had done me was a last bond between her and myself which outlived memory even, for with the conservation of energy which belongs to everything that is physical, suffering has no need of the lessons of memory. - Author: Marcel Proust

#36. I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons, the memory of whom has now passed away; but the Bible he was fain to leave subsisting. - Author: Martin Luther

#37. Memories shift like loose snow in a wind, or are a chorale of ghosts all talking over one another. There is only ever a sense that what is real to me is not real to others, and to share a memory with someone is to risk sullying my belief in what has truly happened. - Author: Hannah Kent

#38. Memory is that trick by which we see the awful events of the past loom over the good, like mountains over mouse. We don't recall life as it was. Instead, we remember what was different, frightening, or strange, and we turn our lives into the fun-house mirror images of the truth. - Author: Jamie Kain

#39. It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens. - Author: Grover Cleveland

#40. It was the sort of moment that a smoker would fill in with a cigarette and an ex-smoker filled in with the memory of a cigarette. - Author: Peter Corris

#41. Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin and they end with no lasting memory made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life. - Author: Scott Neustadter

#42. Think your mother will let me drive you to school tomorrow? Now that we're all friends and united by a belief in the careful use of contraception?"
My cheeks burn, the memory of my mother's mortifying behavior distracting me for a moment. "Yes," I mumble. "I think so. - Author: Stacey Jay

#43. Confusing experience with the memory of it is a compelling cognitive illusion - and it is the substitution that makes us believe a past experience can be ruined. - Author: Daniel Kahneman

#44. She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory. - Author: Margaret Atwood

#45. As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality. - Author: Brad Herzog

#46. There had been in his past, as in every man's, actions, recognized by him as bad, for which his conscience ought to have tormented him; but the memory of these evil actions was far from causing him so much suffering as those trivial but humiliating reminiscences. - Author: Leo Tolstoy

#47. Today will live forever in the memory of tomorrow. - Author: Jay McLean

#48. Time is our delight and our prison. It binds all human beings together, since we all share the pleasures and burdens of memory, and we all know the anticipation of cherished goals and the dark prospect of personal mortality. - Author: Francesco Petrarca

#49. I imitatea memory of beliefthat I do not own. - Author: Anne Sexton

#50. Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober. - Author: Charles Caleb Colton

#51. The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains. - Author: Ray Bradbury

#52. He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying. - Author: Michel De Montaigne

#53. Laws of silence don't work ... . When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. - Author: Tennessee Williams

#54. , and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometimes be the means of saving us. - Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#55. When the mind stops searching, when it stops wanting refuge, when it no longer goes in search of security, when it no longer craves more books and information, when it ignores even the memory of desire, only then will Love arrive within. - Author: Samael Aun Weor

#56. Phonogram is the memory of a long period in my life through a surprisingly small filter. Those characters are basically the golem who accompanied me on that decade and a half. - Author: Kieron Gillen

#57. Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness. - Author: Chuck Palahniuk

#58. Does it matter that people and things
Have words,
Have names?
If not,
Why read any book?
A litany of useless letters
Detached from bone, muscle.
Or are words the only things that make the muscle, bone, memory, movement,
Person
Real? - Author: Stasia Ward Kehoe

#59. That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory. - Author: Ovid

#60. He went three hundred yards up the slope to the other hotel, he engaged a room, and found himself washing without a memory of the intervening ten minutes, only a sort of drunken flush pierced with voices, unimportant voices that did not know how much he was loved. - Author: F Scott Fitzgerald

#61. Hope is the forward-looking part of memory. - Author: Diana Wynne Jones

#62. Even when other powers have been lost and people may not even be able to understand language, they will nearly always recognize and respond to familiar tunes. And not only that. The tunes may carry them back and may give them memory of scenes and emotions otherwise unavailable for them. - Author: Oliver Sacks

#63. May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you. - Author: Herculine Barbin

#64. He bore the same sort of resemblance to his mother that our loving memory of a friend's face often bears to the face itself: the lines were all more generous, the smile brighter, the expression heartier. If - Author: George Eliot

#65. I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory. - Author: John Calvin

#66. Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns - and forever believing that such patterns are to be found. - Author: Dara Horn

#67. For me, all of the data that is contained in your cell memory, and in your energetic field, is able to be picked up. - Author: Caroline Myss

#68. I know. You can be fine, and then,
out of nowhere,
a memory blindsides you. - Author: Lisa Schroeder

#69. Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ? - Author: Thomas Mann

#70. Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur. - Author: Louise Colet

#71. I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work. - Author: Bernardo Bertolucci

#72. The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other. - Author: Francis Bacon

#73. Again, I must stress that this is my reading now of what happened then. Or rather, my memory now of my reading then of what was happening at the time. - Author: Julian Barnes

#74. Sometimes memory is the only gift we give ourselves and the only hope we have of finding our way home. - Author: Harley King

#75. To have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and her self respect - well, that's a trophy enough for a guy's ego, huh? - Author: Jerry Spinelli

#76. Memory all to easily accommodates the corruption of regret. - Author: Dana Spiotta

#77. Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff. - Author: Erma Bombeck

#78. Mistakes,' he said with effort, 'are also important to me. I don't cross them out of my life, or memory. And I never blame others for them. - Author: Andrzej Sapkowski

#79. The first time he saw her she reminded him a distant memory of falling from a height. - Author: Vatsal Surti

#80. I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time. - Author: Bill Gates

#81. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's. - Author: Christopher Hitchens

#82. This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. - Author: Brandon Sanderson

#83. 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. - Author: Laura Riding

#84. I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward, so he can be proud of his daddy. - Author: Scott Stapp

#85. Yet at least we can admire the wise Prearrangement which has ordained that, as they have no hopes, so they shall have no memory to recall, and no forethought to anticipate, the miseries and humiliations which are at once a necessity of their existence and the basis of the constitution of Flatland. - Author: Edwin A. Abbott

#86. An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work. - Author: Fanny Kemble

#87. The though revives in him the oldest memory of his life. A child sees a door closing: without knowing who it is that has just left, he senses it is someone he loves with all his tiny, still mute being. - Author: Andrei Makine

#88. It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures. - Author: Ally Condie

#89. The halcyon days of childhood, a time when everything lay open before him, when the most minor episodes could be construed as events and every chance encounter ... gave rise to fresh insights. - Author: Ivan Klima

#90. Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable. - Author: Charles Dudley Warner

#91. 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. - Author: Thomas Jefferson

#92. Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth. - Author: Joshua Foer

#93. I'd drink your blood if I could and hook you into every memory inside me, every heartbreak, frame of reference, temporary triumph, petty defeat, mystic moment of surrender. - Author: Anne Rice

#94. Lieux de memoire ... 'exist because there are no longer any milieux de memoire, settings in which memory is a real part of everyday experience.' And what are lieux de memoire? [They] are ... vestiges ... the rituals of a ritual-less society. - Author: Tony Judt

#95. Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius. - Author: James Russell Lowell

#96. My dark prince. The reaper. The man who spilled blood for me without pause. For that reason alone he'll always be on a pedestal that no other can reach. He'll always be the memory I revisit in my darkest of times. - Author: A. Zavarelli

#97. All of us who are living are dying. The only ones not dying are the dead.,,To live was to be haunted by the inevitability of one's own decay, and to be dead was to be haunted by the memory of living. - Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen

#98. The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it. - Author: Elizabeth Drew

#99. For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinocerus. - Author: Ethel Barrymore

#100. The time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory. - Author: Lyndon B. Johnson