Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenny Smith

The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur. -People who think they are trapped in a river of regularized and ever-repeating time are merely the victims of their own ordinarizing minds that have elaborated for them a prison-cell of everydayness. The fountains of time, history, life, inspiration, etc. are fresh every instant, if one knows how to grasp them with some finesse: every instant within natural, historical, and personal time is unique.

Margaret Deland

... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.

Mark Twain

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Elizabeth Scott

Whatever happened to me just now has gotten to me, broken past the fragile shell I've built. More than my memory is gone. My soul has wings that beat to a heart I don't understand and I see things, feel things that I know aren't from here, but that are so real.

Elizabeth Hardwick

They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.

Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one pattern to another: a potential translation in which narrative becomes parable and the once upon a time comes to stand for some renascent truth. This approach applies to all the incidents of everyday life: the phrase in the newspaper, the endearing or infuriating game of a toddler, the misunderstanding at the office. Our species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

Pierre Bonnard

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.

Pierre Corneille

It takes good memory to keep up a lie

Pierre Corneille

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie

Pierre Corneille

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

Pierre Corneille

A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]

Philip Levine

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

Pope Francis

The question of truth is really a question of memory, deep memory, for it deals with something prior to ourselves and can succeed in uniting us in a way that transcends our petty and limited individual consciousness. It is a question about the origin of all that is, in whose light we can glimpse the goal and thus the meaning of our common path.

Pope Francis

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

Pope Francis

The people that does not care for its children or grandparents is a people that has not future. Because it doesn't have the strength or the memory to go forward...

Pope Francis

There are some things we really need to take care of: the children, and grandparents. Children, whether they are young or older, they are the strength that moves us forward. We place our hope in them.Grandparents are the living memory of the family. They passed on the faith, they transmitted the faith, to us.

Pope Francis

A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.

Rachael Taylor

For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

Rachael Ray

My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.

Rabindranath Tagore

Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.

Peter Zumthor

In a fragment of a second you can understand: Things you know, things you don’t know, things you don’t know that you don’t know, conscious, unconscious, things which in a fragrant of a second you can react to: we can all imagine why this capacity was given to us as human beings - I guess to survive. Architecture to me has the same kind of capacity. It takes longer to capture, but the essence to me is the same. I call this atmosphere. When you experience a building and it gets to you. It sticks in your memory and your feelings. I guess thats what I am trying to do.

Pete Wentz

I’m not just taking trips down memory lane; I’m broken down on it.

Paulo Coelho

We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched, even when we have everything we need in order to be happy.

Paulo Coelho

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.

Paulo Coelho

But don’t forget that memory is like salt: the right amount brings out the flavour in food, too much ruins it. If you live in the past all the time, you’ll find yourself with no present to remember.

Paulo Coelho

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.

Paulo Coelho

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than you imagined.

Peter Shilton

The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.

Peter Matthiessen

And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri.

A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation.

Quintilian

A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem

Quintilian

A liar ought to have a good memory.