Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Spender

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

Tim O'Brien

And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads out on a river when you know you must cross the river and march into the mountains and do things you are afraid to do. It's about love and memory. It's about sorrow. It's about sisters who never write back and people who never listen.

Tig Notaro

I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.

Reggie Watts

We're all just memories of our future selves.

Tom Clancy

For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with their plucky spirit and sacrifice. Unfortunately, Navy leaders at Pearl Harbor, struggling to protect what was left of the shattered Pacific Fleet, canceled a relief mission, allowing the island and its defenders to fall without support. Wake damaged the long-standing trust between the Corps and the Navy, a memory that still rankles Marines and shames sailors.

Stephen Colbert

The greatest threat facing American today - next to voter fraud, the Western Pinebark beetle, and the memory foam mattress - is the national news media.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.

Thomas Keller

My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.

Thomas Keller

Success is measured by the memories you create.

Billy Blanks

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Dalai Lama

If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.

Dalai Lama

As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.

Amos Lee

I love what I do, so I don't mind working.

Amos Bronson Alcott

The richest minds need not large libraries.

Anthony Daniels

For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.

Anthony de Mello

The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one.

Anthony de Mello

Problems exist only in the human mind.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.

Jon McGregor

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

Judith Jamison

You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?

James M. Barrie

There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.

Joan Konner

This life isn't bad for a first draft.

Joan Didion

Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces.

Jimmy Breslin

Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.

Jim Morrison

The subject says: I see first many things which dance... then everything gradually becomes connected.

Erik Qualman

History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.

Eric Stoltz

My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.