“-If I somehow possessed a set of videotapes that contained all the most significant events of your childhood, in their entirety, would… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
I know that I have in my make-up layers of synthetic experiences, and that the most powerful of my memories are only… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Thats simple, says the old man. They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life… — Br0k3n_h3Art Copy Share Image
My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Growing up, I never knew that Raffi turned down celebrity endorsements, TV shows, and specials and refused to make merchandise, but it… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“I’d grown up feeling like the trees had eyes, each tangle of roots like a brain that held memories. I could feel,… — Adrienne Young Copy Share Image
Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Growing up is never straight forward. There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that there are… — Alden Nowlan Copy Share Image
It's one of the most beautiful memories of my life. Not everyone has a chance to meet Greta Garbo! I was so… — Giovanna Cau Copy Share Image
Feelings are only your history being occasioned by the present moment. If that's your enemy, then your history is your enemy. If… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
The life of a play begins and ends in the moment of performance. This is where author, actors, and directors express all… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
“Everyone else goes home for nostalgia, and happy memories. I end up feeling like I never fit in with the family as… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
You can’t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you —- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do… — Ryohgo Narita Copy Share Image
What happened after 9/11 - and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not -… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.… — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory.… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
After a traumatic event, people tend to store a series of memories and arrange them into a meaningful narrative. They remember exactly… — David Grann Copy Share Image
One of the best memories of my life is contemplating that first finished drawing and realizing I had cracked the code, that… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some things are better than I recall. Some arent as good. But the distortion of memorywillful or otherwiseis a fascinating thing. Recollections… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether I caught fish or not, just the thrill of rolling out that line and watching my fly turn over has been… — Curt Gowdy Copy Share Image
“Music is powerful; it transforms emotions and experiences into something tangible. Every time you hear a familiar song, the feelings from it… — Michelle Madow Copy Share Image
There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I think a lot of us can relate to not choosing to face a painful memory, and something that's a painful past,… — Derek Magyar Copy Share Image
“Well, there's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the price of a memory is the memory of… — Counting Crows Copy Share Image
I'm very emotion-based, I approach character very much from the heart. Building up their heart, their inner world, their imagination, their childhood… — Jerrika Hinton Copy Share Image
In a face, look for the main light and the main shadow; the rest will come naturally — it's often not important.… — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“He would roam about the world carrying his recollections with him, and perhaps some day he would come to forget them, for… — Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Copy Share Image
“They waited awhile before lighting the candles; the gloom allowed the past to slip cozily into the present. But the memories were… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
When every memory has been made and the pages start to fade. And every prayer you ever prayed is heaven bound. When… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
“And the pomegranates,/ like memories, are bittersweet/ as we huddle together,/ remembering just how good/ life used to be” — Guadalupe Garcia McCall Copy Share Image
When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting,… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Remember when getting high meant swinging on the playground? When protection meant a helmet? When the worst thing you could get from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was so young when my dad died that I didn't think it had affected me. I had such tiny memories of… — Bob Mortimer Copy Share Image
Who is giving the orders to ants? No one. They are self-organizing. Each of our immune systems get smarter over the years… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
In my family we got up in the mornings around three o'clock and went out to the barns to bring the cows… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Before you know it it's 3 am and you're 80 years old and you can't remember what it was like to have… — Anita Pallenberg Copy Share Image
I miss the good times and I wish it could be the same way, but those days are gone and there's no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image