Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morton Feldman

I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!

Morton Feldman

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I have an awful memory, and I have a great memory. Meaning that, if I'm trying to remember something, I can't remember it. But my recall is fantastic.

Philip Roth

Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

Philip Roth

Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews.

Philip Roth

I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.

Philip Roth

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

Philip Guston

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

Pharrell Williams

Whenever I think of the memories of you by my side, it leaves a smile on my lips and gives me the hope of the love that we will have again when you will return. That is why I don't mind staying apart like this.

Per Petterson

If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it....

Penelope Lively

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

Penelope Lively

The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time itself-can it be linear when all these snatches of other presents exist at once in your mind? A very elusive and tricky concept, time.

Penelope Lively

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

Penn Jillette

Cheerios bring back memories. I actually don't think I ate them much as a kid, though; maybe it's some sort of Jungian memory, I don't know. But they have so much sugar, it's great.

Paulo Coelho

When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.

Paulo Coelho

And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.

Martin Scorsese

Movies touch our hearts, and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places. They open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our lifetime. We need to keep them alive.

Martin Scorsese

DAYS THAT I'LL REMEMBER is a lovingly assembled and beautifully written collection of conversations, observations, and memories of music, friendship, and days gone by. It's good to be back again with John Lennon, his beloved Yoko Ono, and his trusted chronicler and friend Jonathan Cott.

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

Mariska Hargitay

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

Marjane Satrapi

Of course, when you remember your life, you never remember anything in a chronological way. You always have pieces of memories, and some of these memories are full of details and very colorful. Some of them you just see the action and it's completely blank.

Marianne Moore

We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory.

Mariah Carey

I have memories of Australia that I'll just never ever get over

Meghan O'Rourke

The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.

Sherwood Smith

Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

There’s no reason for you to know all that about me. My memories have never served good to anyone. (Acheron)

Nicolas Roeg

I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.

Nicolas Cage

I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond.

Nick Flynn

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

Nora Ephron

I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books I've loved.

Nora Roberts

Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.

Nicole Krauss

The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been embellished by details from elsewhere, fragments that survived the obliteration of other memories, vagrant data that gravitated and stuck to what was left to remember. But in the end he rejected this idea. The memories were too perfect: take one detail away and they collapsed into disorder.

Nicole Krauss

My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one level, it's about how we create a coherent sense of self.