Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine Rivarol

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Nothing can match the treasure of common memories ...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.

Beck

When I did "Top of the Pops" for the first time, Ace of Base was one of the other bands, and I have a memory of them on a small stage next to me in the TV studio. A memory of their performance is burned into my mind. Seared.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Chauncey seethed at the outrageous insult. "And your father?" he demanded, extending the sword. He didn't yet know all his vassals, but he was learning. He would brand the family name of this boy to memory.

William Shakespeare

This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.

William Shakespeare

Memory, the warder of the brain.

Those memories are all I have. I don't have anything else.

William Shakespeare

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear

Joanne Harris

All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper — the weight of a human heart.

David Greene

I think it's a little too soon. The memories are still fresh, the wounds still raw.

Dianne Wiest

I shot Footloose nearby, and we used to hike. Very fond memories.

Diane von Furstenberg

One of my fondest memories was when I was in London as a young, independent businesswoman and stayed at Claridge's. I knew I had made it. To me, Claridge's is the most glamourous hotel in the world; I regard it as my home away from home. I am honoured to become part of the hotel's legacy and rich design history.

Diane von Furstenberg

My face carries all of my memories. Why would I erase them?

David Brooks

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

David Shields

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

David Mitchell

Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.

David Mitchell

The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.

David Koechner

I don't have anything that dramatic as far as a performance goes. I've never participated in a show that ended in a fight in my memory.

David H. Murdock

Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and other varieties have anthocyanins that can help reverse some loss of balance and memory associated with aging.

David Ginola

I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.

Dave Barry

I find myself having these conversations where I go...You know, the guy, in that place. The guy in the place with the thing, you know. And it becomes this game of charades. And then finally, we realize that I mean the Pope.

Dave Barry

RAM: This gives guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest memory. That's important, because the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages.

Dave Barry

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

David Suzuki

My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying a pup tent to go on our first camping trip.

David Suzuki

The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.'

David Rakoff

What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.

Carl Sagan

The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

Bruno Heller

One of the things about working for an old school studio like Warner Bros. is that there is an institutional culture and institutional memory, in terms of production design, camera work, and directors who understand how to do this kind of thing.

Bryan Ferry

I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.

Bryce Courtenay

I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.