August Quote by William Faulkner Download Open image “Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]” — William Faulkner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare August Believe Knowing Light Memories Memory Remember
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall… — Tan Twan Eng Copy Share Image
“Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. Knows remembers believes a corridor in a big long garbled… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
My first memory is of the brightness of light — light all around. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably occurs. Details… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves. — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“The river itself is not a hundred yards across, and pa and Vernon and Vardaman and Dewey Dell are the only things in sight… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Luster returned, wearing a stiff new straw hat with a colored band and carrying a cloth cap. The hat seemed to isolate Luster's skull,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil, — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“What modren ideas?” pap said. “I didn’t know there was but one idea about work—until it is done, it ain’t done, and when it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“It was only as he put his hand on the door that he became aware of complete silence beyond it, a silence which he… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle East, the… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71. — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
I had the advantage, that I know Swedish. So I had the Swedish book and I had a lot of English translations, and German… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation. — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
It [August 10th 1792] was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive. — William Doyle Copy Share Image
How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet. — Andre Holland Copy Share Image