Details Quote by Graham Greene Download Open image “We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.” — Graham Greene ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Details Remember Stories
I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it. — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder if our memories are a myth. We think we remember, but we are remembering the story and not the actual event? — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
All our stories are part invention - the way we've decided to make sense of what has happened. — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
However, for story reasons, we needed to represent them in certain ways. One of the things that sort of blew me away that I… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it… — S.J. Watson Copy Share Image
Very few stories embody a human truth so definitively that we cannot think of the truth without remembering the story and cannot imagine how… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Sometimes we can't let go of memories, because they are constant reminders of a great story that we never expected to end. — Joffrey Lagura Copy Share Image
“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should have felt… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
The exact details of how you practice value investing will vary investor to investor, but the fundamental principle of scouring the world, looking for… — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
The first track is the end of a string. At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a hint about itself… — Tom Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you wake up… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs. — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories… — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share Image
The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting… — Zhang Ziyi Copy Share Image
