Quotes About Mementos

#1. Can I take a few things?
Mementos. How fucked up was that? I wanted reminders of my imprisonment.

Kitty Thomas

#2. A story begins with this nebulous feeling that's hard to get a hold of and you're testing your feelings and assumptions, testing what you believe. They end up turning into keepsakes and mementos - like amber in which a memory gets trapped.

Michael Chabon

#3. [My work] is designed to speak for itself. as mementos of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that it will possess an enduring interest.

Alexander Gardner

#4. Celebration is big for me. From my younger days, when I used to win mementos while playing basketball, I have always believed in sharing my success. It has to be there. It lifts the energy levels of the entire side if you are positive and vocal when a wicket falls.

Suresh Raina

#5. Do I need fifty finger-painted pictures by my toddler, or is one enough to capture this time of life? Mementos work best when they're carefully chosen - and when they don't take up much room!

Gretchen Rubin

#6. Figurines and souvenirs and kickshaws and mementos and gewgaws and bric-a-brac, everything either useless to begin with or ornamented so as to disguise its use; acres of luxuries, acres of excrement.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#7. Whenever I go someplace I always buy something, collect something, to help me remember the trip. So I guess I collect mementos from my many travels.

Wendell Pierce

#8. I'm not a things person. I'm not one to keep much. I do have a small collection of picks from favorite musicians I got to play with, a collection of mementos. I'm kind of the opposite of a hoarder, as I try to get rid of everything.

Chris Wyse

#9. Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.

Orhan Pamuk

#10. Oh! Old rubbish! Old letters, old clothes, old objects that one does not want to throw away. How well nature has understood that, every year, she must change her leaves, her flowers, her fruit and her vegetables, and make manure out of the mementos of her year!

Jules Renard

#11. Mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

William Gaddis

#12. I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol ... It's all in a box in the garage.

Jared Harris

#13. Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#14. But the love of sisters needs no words. It does not depend on memories, or mementos, or proof. It runs as deep as a heartbeat. It is as ever present as a pulse.

Lisa Wingate

#15. The best sequence is this: clothes first, then books, papers, komono (miscellany), and lastly, mementos.

Marie Kondo

#16. The objects for which there is no satisfactory resolution ... In theory, these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here.

Joan Didion

#17. With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.

Orhan Pamuk

#18. I don't really collect the mementos. I do steal books off of sets. If there's a library on the set, you can bet that I'll steal away with a book or two.

Billy Campbell

#19. I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle Seymour made, a brass grotesque he mounted on a marble base. And my grandfather's shaving cup is there, used to store pencils and pens.

Scott Turow

#20. Empty lipstick cases are like spent cartridges from the eternal war that is love. A used tube has the quality of those books you are reluctant to give away and they line the shelves in my bathroom, mementos of nights to remember.

Chloe Thurlow

#21. He is so shy, Juliet. He always has been-I don't think anybody's ever been in love with him, or him with anybody before, so he'd not know the right thing to do about it. It'd be just like him to hide away mementos and never say a word. I despair for him, I do.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#22. I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.

Adam Garcia

#23. We should realize that the average family in America spends five minutes a week on politics.

Celinda Lake

#24. Love is special, and anyone who gives you their heart is giving you a part of them.

Elizabeth Rudnick

#25. Poetry is talking on tiptoe.

George Meredith

#26. We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.

Gerard Arpey

#27. When you're stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.

Christina Baldwin

#28. I wanted to add a photo of where Bruce Beckham's Inspector Skelgill likes to fish but I couldn't figure how to do it.

Bruce Beckham

#29. To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.

Jacob Epstein

#30. You are as deluded as the rest of us, but that's OK, it keeps you sane.

David McRaney

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Budi Kurniawan

#32. I've always tried to have a rule that you shouldn't make fun of innocent people who can't defend themselves. I find that a little unseemly and distasteful. But nothing's really sacred to me.

Bob Odenkirk

#33. I think it's possible to be free in a big production. It's the eye of the director and the actor and the story ...

Adam Driver

#34. [I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Elizabeth I

#35. Beauty only happens once.

Jacques Derrida

#36. So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Alan Watts

#37. What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe.

William Faulkner