Famous Quotes & Sayings

George MacDonald

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

George Jones

If drinking don't kill me, her memory will.

Emily Ratajkowski

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

Elliot Perlman

[Memory] visits when it is hungry, not when you are.

Ellie Goulding

In Australia and New Zealand, and New Zealand especially, I always find everyone is so nice and friendly. It's one of the few places that I remember visually, like I remember where I stayed and my surroundings - and that's a good sign, because I've got a terrible memory. I'm looking forward to it!

Ellen Hopkins

All I can do is lie here, brain turning somersaults. It's nights like these when memories stir, whipping themselves into stiff peaks of pain.

Ellen Hopkins

Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.

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

My happiest memories have no place in the past; they are those I have yet to create.

Ellen Hopkins

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

Jimmy Hoffa

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

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.

Joan D. Vinge

A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.

Joan Didion

You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone. Memories are the Westlake uniforms in the closet, the faded and cracked photographs, the invitations to the weddings of the people who are no longer married, the mass cards from the funerals of the people whose faces you no longer remember. Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

Joan Didion

Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.

Joan Didion

Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may cut free memories and feelings that we thought had gone to ground long ago. We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean's bed, aware of the depth charges, now near and now far, buffeting us with recollections.

Heidi Klum

To me, life is about creating memories. The regular days kind of just blend in. You have to create special times so that you will always remember them.

Heidi Klum

You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.

John McCain

I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others.

John McCain

I am not haunted by memories of Vietnam. But I must admit I never thought we would again witness in my lifetime the specter of politicians picking targets and ruling out offensive measures in the absurd hope that the enemy would respond to our restraint by yielding to our demands.

John Irving

Because who can describe that look that triggers the memory of loved ones? Who can anticipate the frown, the smile, or the misplaced lock of hair that sends a swift, undeniable signal from the past? Who can ever estimate the power of association, which is always strongest in moments of love and in memories of death?

John Irving

Your memory is a monster; it summons with will of its own. You think you have a memory, but it has you.

John Irving

And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.

John Huston

There is a wilful lemming-like persistance in remaking past successes time after time. They can't make them as good as they are in our memories, but they go on doing them and each time it's a disaster. Why don't we remake some of our bad pictures - I'd love another shot at 'Roots of Heaven' - and make them good?

John Hay

The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories.

John Henry Newman

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

John O'Donohue

Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means.

Frankie Valli

I cherish the memory of being a friend of Frank Sinatra on a friendship level to the point where we really hung out. We worked in Vegas, wed talk on the phone, and if I wasnt doing anything, Id fly out, and I spent time in Palm Springs at his house - on a level the way friends would be, not with a whole crowd of people.

Frank Deford

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

Gayle King

My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'

Geddy Lee

To Toronto City Council: The Sam The Record Man store and sign were important fixtures in Toronto's musical landscape as well as its Civic history. Sadly, all that remains now are our memories of the store and this magnificant neon sign. Ryerson and they City of Toronto should absolutely preserve what myself and many of its citizens consider to be an important symbol of our past and of that store's contributions to our culture.