Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ani Difranco

Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

Andy Goldsworthy

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

Ally Carter

Your memory is your first and best weapon, ladies. Learn to use it.

Allen Iverson

I didn't know I had this many fans in Puerto Rico. I'm going to carry this memory to my grave.

Anthony Jeselnik

An offended audience member repeating a comedian's act from memory is worse than, literally, anything.

Ann Brashares

You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person.

Ann Brashares

Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.

Ann Brashares

It was a blessing and also a curse of handwritten letters that unlike email you couldn’t obsessively reread what you’d written after you’d sent it. You couldn’t attempt to un-send it. Once you’d sent it it was gone. It was an object that no longer belonged to you but belonged to your recipient to do with what he would. You tended to remember the feeling of what you’d said more than the words. You gave to object away and left yourself with the memory. That was what it was to give.

Ann Brashares

One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.

Ann Brashares

Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.

Ann Brashares

But it was smell that carried memory.

Ann Brashares

He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.

Andrea Bocelli

'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting emotions, of sleepless nights.

Amy Winehouse

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Amanda Harlech

My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.

Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information. It is a matter of some interest, that the only other volume A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt reminds one of is Ake, by Wole Soyinka. What is it about these Yorubas?

Humans, not places, make memories.

Amanda Bynes

This is how memories are made... by going with the flow.

Aesop

The memory of a good deed lives.

Aeschylus

Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

Abraham Lincoln

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

Abraham Lincoln

I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

Abraham Lincoln

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Aleksandar Hemon

Memory narrativises itself.

Aleksandar Hemon

Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit prisons, broke up matchsticks and used the fragments as tallies. As I approached the end of my sentences I grew more confident of my powers of memory, and began writing down and memorizing prose-dialogue at first, but then, bit by bit, whole densely written passages. My memory found room for them! It worked. But more and more of my time-in the end as much as one week every month-went into the regular repetition of all I had memorized.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Alberto Korda

To use the image of Che Guevara to sell vodka is a slur on his name and memory. He never drank himself, he was not a drunk, and drink should not be associated with his immortal memory... As a supporter of the ideals for which Che Guevara died, I am not averse to its reproduction by those who wish to propagate his memory and the cause of social justice throughout the world.

Alberto Manguel

I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.

Albert Einstein

I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book