I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.
~By Philip Guston ~
Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
~By Nathaniel Parker Willis ~
It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.
~By Robert Creeley ~
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
~By Gilbert Parker ~
It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.
~By Tracey Emin ~
For the first time in your conscious memory; for the first time in fact, since your were a baby; a single tear, full and warm, rolled down your right cheek and you fell into a very deep and entirely dreamless slumber.
~By Dave Sim ~
In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.
~By Christie Hefner ~
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
~By Edwin Markham ~
I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.
~By David Wenham ~
You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.
~By Janet Jackson ~
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
~By David Halberstam ~
I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.
~By Vernon L. Smith ~
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
~By Letitia Landon ~
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
~By Josh Billings ~
Language is memory and metaphor.
~By Storm Jameson ~
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 ~
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
~By Francis Bacon ~
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
~By Cliff Fadiman ~
The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.
~By Diane Lane ~
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
~By Alexander Smith ~
It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.
~By Rick Moody ~
I've never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure there's enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures.
~By Carrie Underwood ~
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency.
~By Mary McAleese ~
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
~By Martin Farquhar Tupper ~
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
~By Anthony Hecht ~
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
~By James M. Barrie ~
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
~By Lactantius ~
I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.
~By Jim Jarmusch ~
My work has typically been about finding a means to express memory and commemoration for loss and grief.
~By John Regan ~
Observation is an old man's memory.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
~By George William Curtis ~
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
~By William Godwin ~
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
~By Aulus Gellius ~
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
~By Rebecca West ~
A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.
~By Henry Chadwick ~
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
~By W. G. Sebald ~
Saturday night is when my hair would be fixed up and that was my memory.
~By Jenifer Lewis ~
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
~By Kazuo Ishiguro ~
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.
~By Paul Nurse ~
Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.
~By Bob Kane ~
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
~By Lewis B. Smedes ~
Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
~By George Savile ~
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
~By Denis Diderot ~
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
~By Toni Morrison ~
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
~By Jean Henri Fabre ~
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
~By Ned Rorem ~
Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
~By Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~
It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered.
~By Denis Norden ~
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
~By A. E. Housman ~
The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.
~By Michel Patini ~
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
~By George Herbert ~
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
~By Max Muller ~
How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.
~By Richard Burton ~
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
~By Arthur M. Schlesinger ~
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
~By John Leonard ~
We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
~By Frank McCourt ~
A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
~By Plato ~
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
~By Ingrid Bergman ~
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
~By Aeschylus ~
I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
~By Muddy Waters ~
My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.
~By Georg Solti ~
While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.
~By Dweezil Zappa ~
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time.
~By George Sutherland ~
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
~By Lewis Carroll ~
To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.
~By Thomas Harrison ~
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
~By Francis Bacon ~
I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.
~By Edward Everett ~
I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
~By Iggy Pop ~
The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. They've changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory.
~By Spencer Abraham ~
My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
~By Maurice Baring ~
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
~By Carl Paladino ~
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
~By Candice Bergen ~
But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
~By Anselm Kiefer ~
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
~By Ray Charles ~
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
~By Tobias Wolff ~
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be.
~By Jim Bolger ~
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
We can invent only with memory.
~By Alphonse Karr ~
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
~By Henry Anatole Grunwald ~
My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.
~By Jane Horrocks ~
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