Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lindsay Fox

Simple old-fashioned values that come from a sense of community are the key to a great society. I believe we all have that sense from childhood memories, when life was simple. It's those memories that should drive us to reflect on our values.

Linda Ronstadt

Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.

Lilli Palmer

Smell can conjure up memories for me stronger than any other sense. Especially childhood memories. Perhaps because you were that much shorter and therefore closer to the ground and its smells.

Lil Wayne

A million feelings. A thousand thoughts. A hundred memories. All for one person.

Peter Kropotkin

Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from memory. 'Read poetry,' he wrote: 'poetry makes men better.' How often, in my later life, I realized the truth of this remark of his! Read poetry: it makes men better.

Peter Kropotkin

Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for?

Peter Bondra

Obviously, I have a lot of memories here... but at the same time I'm going to put all my energies into moving forward and doing my best for the Thrashers.

Pema Chodron

When we cling to thoughts and memories, we are clinging to what cannot be grasped. When we touch these phantoms and let them go, we may discover a space, a break in the chatter, a glimpse of open sky. This is our birthright—the wisdom with which we were born, the vast unfolding display of primordial richness, primordial openness, primordial wisdom itself. When one thought has ended and another has not yet begun, we can rest in that space.

Phil Donahue

The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives.

Peter S. Beagle

Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.

Peter Russell

Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.

Peter Russell

Memory is not like a container that gradually fills up, it is more like a tree growing hooks onto which memories are hung. Everything you remember is another set of hooks on which more new memories can be attached. So the capacity of memory keeps on growing. The more you know, the more you can know.

Peter Norvig

Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.

Peter O'Toole

I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.

Phylicia Rashad

Everything you do, every thought you have, every word you say creates a memory that you will hold in your body. It's imprinted on you and affects you in subtle ways - ways you are not always aware of. With that in mind, be very conscious and selective.

Phyllis Bottome

A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!

Phyllis Rose

One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.

Philip Pullman

No,' he said, 'memory's a poor thing to have. It's your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes and hands I want. I didn't know I could ever love anything so much...

Rachel Field

I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.

Rachel Carson

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

Rabindranath Tagore

A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.

Josiah Royce

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.

History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.

Scarlett Thomas

Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.

Terry Tempest Williams

memory is the only way home.

Julio Cortazar

Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.

Julio Cortazar

(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.

Joyce Carol Oates

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Julianna Baggott

Memories are like water.

Ellen Hopkins

My body Healed quickly. But the wound to my psyche was deep. Wide. First aid, too little, too late, left me hemorrhaging inside, the blood unstaunched by psychological bandage or love's healing magic. Eventually it scabbed over, a thick, ugly welt of memory. I work to conceal it, but no matter how hard I try, once in a while something makes me pick at it until the scarring bleeds. In my arms, Ashante cries, innocence ripped apart by circumstance. Bloodied by inhuman will. Time will prove a tourniquet. But she will always be at risk of infection. (124)

Ellen Hopkins

Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.

Jonah Lehrer

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

James Lipton

There are still actors who use emotional memory, affective memory, which was Lee Strasberg's emphasis, not his total emphasis. She taught everything at the Actor's Studio. But nevertheless, she felt that it impeded her.