Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Hawking

"With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code,"By contrast, computers double their speed and memories every 18 months. There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition."

Stephen Hawking

A picture is worth a thousand words...and uses up a thousand times the memory.

Stendhal

I have a bad memory for facts.

Stanislav Grof

Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk.

Stanislav Grof

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

Stanislav Grof

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

Spike Jonze

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

Spike Jonze

What the world is like from a nine-year-old's point of view? My memory is that nothing is explained to you, you've got to try to figure it out, pick up clues from the people around you, try to figure it out from their reactions.

Simon Cowell

One thing I've learnt is you should never fight it. They're natural emotions and when you try and bottle everything up, that's what can make you depressed. Luckily I have fantastic memories [about my parents] and they really help.

Sigmund Freud

I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps they are more concerned with not thinking of it.

Shirley Temple

Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.

Shawn Michaels

Seriously. Thank you all. In that ring w/all of u watching was THE best place for me for a very long time. Thx for the memories.

Shahrukh Khan

I have memories of being in Yale five years ago. It was December and so damn cold that while professing love to my leading lady and singing a Bollywood ditty, which went something like this - Kabhie Alvida Na Kehna - my mouth froze itself to death. I say death because as I inched closer to kiss her, mouthing the words Kabhi Alvida Na... my mouth and jaw just got locked.

Serj Tankian

I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.

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.

Keith Miller

Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to other stories before they spill forth in purple patterns, shapes of small bones and worm rot, shapes of clouds and the spaces between leaves.

Ralph Ellison

That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists.

Rachel Stevens

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

Tennessee Williams

Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.

Tennessee Williams

The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.

Terence McKenna

Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.

Terence McKenna

Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate surface of being and reveal the tactile density of it as a manifold whose measure cannot be immediately taken by the eyes, that it's deep, it's connected, it's complex. Everything holds within itself the anticipation and the memory of everything else.

Terence McKenna

Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.