However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I… — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
“Not an attrition of memory, but great locked rooms in the mansion of his recollection. Not forgotten, any more than a locked… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own… — Wilson Flagg Copy Share Image
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe - to the best of my recollection, anyway - that I soon made the classic error of moving from margaritas… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it… — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share Image
Never, never, before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single, bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Silence 'is so lacking in this world which is often too noisy, which is not favorable to recollection and listening to the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“I suppose if one lives to be old, one's entire waking life will be spent turning on the spit of recollection over… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You, who are so observant, will no doubt concede the generalization that people divide into two large classes, those who live mainly… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Silence...leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ...Silence does not mean running away… — Madeleine Delbrel Copy Share Image
My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“l have no recollection of just when, or more important, why l set about telling the story of the Siege. l suppose… — Valerie Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Let us remember the loving-kindness of the Lord and rehearse His deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection, which… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“I have no recollection of writing the play of Peter Pan, now being published for the first time so long after he… — J.M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I keep thinking my father gave me Turgenev, and then I realize at some point, Oh, this is a false memory. I… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
It is also possible within this lifetime to enhance the power of the mind, enabling one to reaccess memories from previous lives.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Oh the grave!--the grave!--It buries every error--covers every defect--extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
Success comes from having a fulfilling experience and being inside the moment of that experience. Success does not come in retrospect or… — Tommy Tune Copy Share Image
Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness;… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
“I notice I may have somehow mixed up two events, my visit with Rita to Briceland on our way to Cantrip, and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“[She] had heard it said that there was only one emotion which, in recollection, was capable of resurrecting the full immediacy and… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Whether the recollection is of fascist Italy in the 1920s, of Nazi Germany of the 1930s, of the Soviet Union during the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image