Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.
~By Ken Venturi ~
There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.
~By William McFee ~
I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~
We can best honor the memories of those who were killed on September 11 and those who have been killed fighting the war on terrorism, by dedicating ourselves to building a free and peaceful world safe from the threat of terrorism.
~By Jack Reed ~
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be.
~By Sharon Stone ~
Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough.
~By James Hillman ~
So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.
~By John Mason Brown ~
In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
~By Margaret Walker ~
Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
~By Ugo Betti ~
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
~By Sophia Loren ~
I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.
~By Bryan Ferry ~
I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.
~By Alfonso Ribeiro ~
I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.
~By Lisa Marie Presley ~
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
~By Corrie Ten Boom ~
I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.
~By Connie Stevens ~
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
~By Cesare Pavese ~
I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.
~By George Carlin ~
A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.
~By Charles M. Schulz ~
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
~By Philip Roth ~
Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window.
~By Delia Smith ~
I just have beautiful memories of what has happened in my life.
~By Persis Khambatta ~
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.
~By Peter Shilton ~
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
~By Florence King ~
To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.
~By Ricky Nelson ~
It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
~By Faith Ringgold ~
I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.
~By Thomas Keneally ~
The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy.
~By Mark Spitz ~
My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere.
~By Olivia Newton-John ~
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
~By Edith Wharton ~
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.
~By Douglas Trumbull ~
My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.
~By Thomas Keller ~
A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
~By Rosa Parks ~
Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people.
~By Laurel Clark ~
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.
~By Mireille Mathieu ~
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
~By Steven Wright ~
Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.
~By Raul Julia ~
The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.
~By Jan Peter Balkenende ~
I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.
~By Marc Newson ~
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. It won't last forever, either. But the memories will.
~By Dennis Wilson ~
The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
~By Bill Cosby ~
I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.
~By Leonard Maltin ~
Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.
~By Ted Lindsay ~
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
~By Adam Duritz ~
My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.
~By Jayne Mansfield ~
When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
You can't recover memories of a missing event. That's a fallacy.
~By Betty Hill ~
One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
~By Camryn Manheim ~
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
~By Primo Levi ~
I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.
~By Hugo Pratt ~
There are a lot of good memories, and because I was injured, during the rehab, I met my wife. The tennis was very good but the injuries were good for something too.
~By Richard Krajicek ~
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
~By Alex Grey ~
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.
~By Damon Wayans ~
In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
~By Edvard Munch ~
There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
~By Irwin Shaw ~
Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight.
~By Bernhard Langer ~
Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.
~By Chris Brown ~
Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.
~By Daniel Keys Moran ~
When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories.
~By Ernst Mach ~
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
The cybermen are good monsters, I think. My earliest memories are of the cybermen from when I used to watch when I was younger. It's nice to have them back.
~By Sarah Sutton ~
I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.
~By Peter O'Toole ~
I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.
~By Brian Sibley ~
The hurricane flooded me out of a lot of memorabilia, but it can't flood out the memories.
~By Tom Dempsey ~
I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.
~By Ahmet Zappa ~
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
~By Robert Smithson ~
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
~By Stanislaw Lec ~
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
~By Bob Dylan ~
Newlyweds, they have this ideal, this picture of what marriage is like, something similar of their favorite memories growing up. If only it were that simple.
~By William Taylor ~
My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that.
~By Tony Goldwyn ~
I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.
~By Sela Ward ~
Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.
~By Roger Clemens ~
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.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.
~By Patti Davis ~
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.
~By Judy Davis ~
More than specific memories of achievements, for me I remember the feeling you get when you were just at your very best - when you felt like you were floating across the court and could put the ball wherever you wanted.
~By Guy Forget ~
We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States.
~By Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ~
My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.
~By George Takei ~
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.
~By David Antin ~
This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman.
~By Jhumpa Lahiri ~
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.
~By Parker Stevenson ~
Memories are doing funny things to us.
~By Milos Forman ~
Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.
~By Jeff Buckley ~
Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.
~By Mattie Stepanek ~
People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
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