Memories Quotes - Page 61

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved their life. Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it. Coffee was a lot like love that way. And because Rachel believed in love, she believed in coffee, too.

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.

Put it out of your mind. In no time, it will be a forgotten memory.

Homeopaths do not have a physical brain, but merely 'skull water' with the memory of brains.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.

If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.

The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.

There's something about being able to literally consume a work of art - then to divide all that pleasure of it - because it's a memory. A great wine for me is a memory, it's an extraordinary experience.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.

One faces the future with one's past.

Then the Warrior of the Light thanks his traveling companions, takes a deep breath and continues on, laden with memories of an unforgettable journey.

It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere.

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.

Sometimes a perfect memory can be ruined if put to words.

The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been embellished by details from elsewhere, fragments that survived the obliteration of other memories, vagrant data that gravitated and stuck to what was left to remember. But in the end he rejected this idea. The memories were too perfect: take one detail away and they collapsed into disorder.

It wasn't that long, and it certainly wasn't the kind of kiss you see in movies these days, but it was wonderful in its own way, and all I can remember about the moment is that when our lips touched, I knew the memory would last forever.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

They were very short, the golden years. The golden years are when you can sit back, hopefully, and exchange memories. And that's the worst part about this disease. There's nobody to exchange memories with.

Memories are doing funny things to us.

The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.