Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Faber

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.

Michel Patini

The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.

Michel Houellebecq

I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory; and then all of a sudden they stop.

Michel Foucault

I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.

Patti Davis

The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.

Oscar Wilde

memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

Oscar Wilde

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

Oscar Wilde

No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

Oscar Wilde

The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.

Oscar Wilde

Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel

Oscar Wilde

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

Oscar Wilde

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

Oscar Wilde

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Maeve Binchy

My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.

M. Ward

I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.

Macaulay Culkin

I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.

Lyall Watson

I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting #‎ intuition guide my way.

Lucille Clifton

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

Louis Kronenberger

The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person leaves vivid memories; one spent with interesting people has merely a sort of bouquet.

Louis L'Amour

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

Louis L'Amour

The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

Lorrie Moore

I always do the wrong. I do the wrong thing so much that the times I actually do the right thing stand out so brightly in my memory that I forget I always do the wrong thing.

Margaret Millar

I've reached the age where anyone who lets me talk seems like an old By listening to my memories, you have become part of them.

Michael Jackson

If you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up.

Michael Jackson

But if you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up. But no matter how much money you make or how famous you become, you will still feel empty. What you are really searching for is unconditional love, unqualified acceptance. And that was the one thing that was denied to you at birth.

Michael Dolan

The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you.

Michel De Certeau

A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.

Michel de Montaigne

In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

Michel de Montaigne

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

Michel de Montaigne

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel de Montaigne

It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.

Michel de Montaigne

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

Michel de Montaigne

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.