Memories Quotes - Page 24

• Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Originality, Failing

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• The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Sky, White, House

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• A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Typical, Degrees, Anecdotes

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• Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.

  Bobby Orr

  Sports, Fun, Hockey

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• To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Liars, Great Memories

  "What I've Learned: Ozzy Osbourne" by Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 1, 2005.

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• It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Hard Times, Erase

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• I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw them out - I don't know where to put everything.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Clothes, I Can

  "How I get dressed" by Neil Norman, www.theguardian.com. February 09, 2008.

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• Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

  Jean Paul

  Loss, Men, Two

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• Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

  Pope Paul VI

  Anniversary, Safe, Phony

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• I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Parent, Energy, Enthusiasm

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• Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.

  Steven Pinker

  Psychology, Mind, Anecdotes

  "Steven Pinker: fighting talk from the prophet of peace". Interview with John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2011.

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• I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.

  Steven Pinker

  Years, Verbs, Fundamentals

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• Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.

  John Podhoretz

  Zero, Grief, Years

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• I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

  Iggy Pop

  Survival, Hot, Favors

  "Iggy's Trail of Destruction". Rolling Stone interview, November 19, 2003.

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• Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

  Alexander Pope

  Reflection, Remembrance, Literature

  Alexander Pope, “An Essay On Man In Four Epistles: Epistle 1”

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• I do not in fact use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people's memories for a while.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, People, Use

  Interview conducted in advance of Terry Pratchett's National Book Festival appearance in Washington, D.C., www.epicreads.com. September 29, 2007.

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• 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.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Father, Records, My Own

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• There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

  Marcel Proust

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.775, Wordsworth Editions

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• We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

  Marcel Proust

  Hands, Drug, Poison

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• It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

  Quintilian

  Liars, Lying, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 485-87, IV. 2. 91, 1922.

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• Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

  Francois Rabelais

  Men, Kind Deeds, Noble

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• My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.

  Rachael Ray

  Capes, Thumbs, Cape Cod

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• The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in.

  Theodor Reik

  Live Concerts, Doors, Promise

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• People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Mind, Complaining

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• Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Not Good Enough, Triviality, Persons

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