Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility has made… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
But the impressions which the morning makes vanish with its dews, and not even the most "persevering mortal" can preserve the memory… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined. Actually, every word has a great burden of memories, not… — Heinrich Böll Copy Share Image
“That makes it more difficult to speak of the past, because the memories are apt to turn into the living present.” — Gerda Weissmann Klein Copy Share Image
You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
I have good memories of my visit to China. It was a beautiful experience for me. I learned a lot of things.… — Gervinho Copy Share Image
It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I kind of forget what it's like to be a dude who grew up in the south sometimes. I want to refresh… — Drake Copy Share Image
One of the things I did, I would go, 'Dad, I know you don't know how to work YouTube, but wait until… — Jim Breuer Copy Share Image
I brought out the most powerful tool I had in my arsenal. "If you resist," I said into Reyes's ear, "I'll be… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
When I was little I went to a Baptist Church with my grandmother. My earliest memories were of her falling out in… — Sherri Shepherd Copy Share Image
I get a call, and it's Howard Bingham, and he's got the champ on the line.Muhammad Ali didn't remember me from being… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
... we chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Some memories battened onto a person's mind like evil leeches, and certain words could bring them instantly back to squirming, feverish life.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations,… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And… — Helen Macdonald Copy Share Image
My best memories growing up are of putting on musicals with my mom and dad, Both of them are real hams; it… — Alexa Ray Joel Copy Share Image
Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was… — Kevin Durant Copy Share Image
“My vocal chords fought to contain the memories that leaked out; I felt the weight off it all pressing down on me.” — Jake Wood Copy Share Image
Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
The girls I've dated hate me a little because I can't remember anything about first dates or when we kissed. I have… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
“Once we were blobs in the sea, and then fishes, and then lizards and rats and then monkeys, and hundreds of things… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“The little things we value as mundane or pithy usually turn into the big things in hindsight…an “I love you” called out… — Toni Sorenson Copy Share Image
I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“When I first began to write, I had been a child for most of my life, and my childhood memories were vivid… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Always remember all the beautiful things happened, that gives big smile in our face,. Especially don't forget the bad memories,,that give us… — Ailenecaballero Copy Share Image
If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about,… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some… — Ajay Naidu Copy Share Image
Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by …… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
“I found myself intent on keeping the memories of the year to myself. [...] I didn't want to share them. Because I… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
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