...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having. — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly sentimental, although I'm not one of those people who doesn't chuck anything out; I don't keep used tea bags -… — Phillip Schofield Copy Share Image
Whenever I go someplace I always buy something, collect something, to help me remember the trip. So I guess I collect mementos… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
I don't really collect the mementos. I do steal books off of sets. If there's a library on the set, you can… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and… — Adam Garcia Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“The objects for which there is no satisfactory resolution… In theory, these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and… — Jared Harris Copy Share Image
“In theory these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Do I need fifty finger-painted pictures by my toddler, or is one enough to capture this time of life? Mementos work best… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
A story begins with this nebulous feeling that’s hard to get a hold of and you’re testing your feelings and assumptions, testing… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“It was true. Sugar did treat her bees like next of kin but then again, they were. Along with her manners, the… — Sarah-Kate Lynch Copy Share Image
“I find many mass cards from the funerals of people whose faces I no longer remember. In theory these mementos serve to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“The man had no portraits or photographs, but he had slowly surrounded himself with mementos of a fantastic past. Each little item,… — William Ritter Copy Share Image
“There was a little sketch pad with a pink paper cover, a packet of handwritten notes in what looked like my grandmother's… — Mary Simses Copy Share Image
In fact I no longer value this kind of memento. I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“They were all as timeless as that moment of rescue, perpetuated but forever just occurring, these ornaments, utensils, and mementos stranded in… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“our finite time in life does not allow us to really go back. The biographies and autobiographies, based on the exploration and… — Gar Lasalle Copy Share Image
“A silver hairbrush, old and surely precious, with a little leopard's head for London stamped near the bristles. A white dress, small… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“I once expected to spend seven years walking around the world on foot. I walked from Mexico to Panama where the road… — George Whitman Copy Share Image
My husband calls me 'throwy-outy' - he's horrified at how easily I dispense with things. People I won't let go of, but… — Sonya Walger Copy Share Image
I'm not a things person. I'm not one to keep much. I do have a small collection of picks from favorite musicians… — Chris Wyse Copy Share Image
