Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ned Rorem

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

Ned Rorem

The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality.

Ned Rorem

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

Naomi Watts

I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.

Naomi Klein

People without memory are putty.

Naguib Mahfouz

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

Mireille Mathieu

In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.

Mireille Guiliano

The memory of some bottles can stay with your for life. While the wine doesn't have to be old and rare, a great old bottle can be like a time capsule, capturing in its flavors and aromas the time and place of its creation.

Miroslav Volf

We will not "forget" so as to be able to rejoice; we will rejoice and therefore let those memories (of wrongs suffered) slip out of our minds!

R. C. Sproul

When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed.

Priscilla Presley

When you live life and you are living the experience, you tend not to appreciate them as you are living them. It's only when you look back and realize how special they were.

Joseph Roth

That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.

Lita Ford

I had funny memories, too, but the music was more important to me than anything else.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I've been in the business since I was 16, so I've had a 14-year career. I've always had acting in my blood. Doing this, whatever it is, was something I was drawn to since my earliest memories. Ironically, I lived in Hollywood, but never understood that all it took was getting an agent and being persistent.

Leonardo da Vinci

Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: - That is the papyrus sheets, which are formed out of several strips and preserve the memory of the thoughts and deeds of men.

Leonardo da Vinci

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci

The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.

Leonardo da Vinci

Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.

Leonardo da Vinci

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

Leonardo da Vinci

Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.

Leonardo da Vinci

It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

Leonardo da Vinci

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

Leonardo da Vinci

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Leonardo da Vinci

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Leonardo da Vinci

He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.

Oscar Wilde

Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.

Paul Gauguin

It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own...

Patrick Rothfuss

Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.

Parker Stevenson

I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey

Lillie Langtry

Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.

Lillian Hellman

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I want to visit Memory Lane, I don't want to live there.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.