Quotes About Preserving Memories

#1. But the moon remained silent; it told no stories. All it did was embrace the heavy past with cool, measured detachment. On the moon there was neither air nor wind. Its vacuum was perfect for preserving memories unscathed. No one could unlock the heart of the moon.

Haruki Murakami

#2. If you say the same words over and over, do they become so bleached that there's no color left in them?

Jodi Picoult

#3. I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#4. The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. If we don't live in a way that is distinctive from our culture, then why not? If we are going to be satisfied with living our lives like the rest of the world and adding a weekly sermon and a small group Bible study on top, then what exactly are we up to in the church? Isn't there more? And

M. Scott Boren

#6. To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Liz Smith

#7. Acting kind of chose me.

Isabel Lucas

#8. Every bit of money that we can bring from our federal transportation budget in Washington back here to Stewart Airport will benefit our local economy and our local residents.

Sue Kelly

#9. Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self.

Frederick Lenz

#10. But he was not hers; he was not anybody's. Something in him was broken, and through that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and push away.

Cassandra Clare

#11. Probably, after all we could say that life is like Dexter... a code... and how good can you work with it?

Deyth Banger

#12. Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.

Colson Whitehead

#13. I have an ulcer. It has an IQ of 185.

Paul Lynde

#14. I hauled myself over as if I were mounting a horse. Which I'd never actually done before.
Needless to say, it was hardly a graceful affair.

Alyxandra Harvey

#15. Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

Plutarch

#16. People have said to me for a long time, "Man you're funny." I say, "Well, I'm quick," but being funny on purpose, take after take - that's why I said for me it was new territory, and so by improvising something might come out that might be good. And it's film, so they can cut it if it isn't.

Denzel Washington

#17. Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

Abbas Kiarostami