The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
~By Salvador Dali ~
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
~By Corrie Ten Boom ~
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
~By Angela Carter ~
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
~By Cesare Pavese ~
A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
~By Camryn Manheim ~
The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.
~By Ajay Naidu ~
I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.
~By Bobby Flay ~
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
~By P. G. Wodehouse ~
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 one thing I need to leave behind is good memories.
~By Michael Landon ~
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 ~
One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.
~By Dave Van Ronk ~
By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project.
~By Spencer Bachus ~
The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.
~By Brian Sibley ~
I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.
~By Fred Frith ~
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
~By George Eliot ~
I shot Footloose nearby, and we used to hike. Very fond memories.
~By Dianne Wiest ~
I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.
~By Marc Newson ~
My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.
~By Steve Irwin ~
There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.
~By William McFee ~
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 have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.
~By Lisa Marie Presley ~
We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.
~By Damon Wayans ~
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 ~
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 ~
Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.
~By Tatum O'Neal ~
And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
~By Iris Dement ~
I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.
~By Gordon Moore ~
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
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 ~
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me.
~By Robin Wright Penn ~
Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.
~By Roger Clemens ~
The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
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 ~
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 ~
The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.
~By Keith Thibodeaux ~
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 ~
It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.
~By Vince Gill ~
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.
~By Thomas Keller ~
The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.
~By Donald G. Mitchell ~
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.
~By Denis Diderot ~
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.
~By Janet Frame ~
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 ~
Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.
~By Jeff Buckley ~
I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do y'all want for lunch, and as we're eating lunch, what do y'all want for dinner? It's always about the next meal.
~By Lisa Loeb ~
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
~By Stanislaw Lec ~
We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States.
~By Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ~
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 ~
Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.
~By Margaret Walker ~
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
~By Rosa Parks ~
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 have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
~By David Gerrold ~
There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.
~By Mac Davis ~
People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
~By Edith Wharton ~
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 ~
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're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.
~By Douglas Trumbull ~
In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?
~By Pope Paul VI ~
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 ~
As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.
~By Neil Armstrong ~
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
~By Mario Vargas Llosa ~
So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.
~By John Mason Brown ~
I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
~By Faith Ringgold ~
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 ~
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
~By Herbert Gold ~
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
~By Robert Smithson ~
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 ~
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 ~
My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.
~By Frederick Reines ~
I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.
~By Spalding Gray ~
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 ~
I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.
~By Michael Chabon ~
My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.
~By George Takei ~
I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere.
~By Olivia Newton-John ~
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 ~
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.
~By Doug Coupland ~
I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.
~By Miley Cyrus ~
Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window.
~By Delia Smith ~
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.
~By Peter Bondra ~
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
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 ~
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 ~
People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.
~By Mick Jagger ~
So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.
~By John Williams ~
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 have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.
~By Jim Fowler ~
To understand a man, you must know his memories. The same is true of a nation.
~By Anthony Quayle ~
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