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Memories Quotes by Siri Hustvedt
- Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic…
- The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy.…
- In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our…
- Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.
- Memory changes as a person matures.
- The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal…
- Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.
- I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think of as explicit…
More Memories Quotes
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights… — Neil Armstrong
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared. — Paul Auster
- I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury… — Emilie Autumn
- All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits… — Diane Ackerman
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. — Lord Acton
- There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. — Erykah Badu