A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arra….

Reading Bicycling beyond the Divide was the best vacation I took all year-in a year I traveled to Mexico, France, and Italy. Even if you have never r….

I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world. I was drunk with it, with the scent of her. I'd got too close. The smel….

Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has ….

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jeru….

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life..

Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the perpetrat….

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart..

Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness bef….

Those rosy memories we all share are actually memories from our favorite TV shows. We've confused our own childhoods with episodes of "Ozzie and Harr….

History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory..

Most of our oldest memories are the product of repeated rehearsal and reconstruction..

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions,….

Memoir is a unique opportunity to revisit yourself. I don't mean by memory. I mean in the revision process. You don't just write a chapter and that's….

Memories are meant to fade, Lenny. They're designed that way for a reason..

All memory is fiction..

Sometimes I'm inspired by a certain part of my life - I'm thinking about a place and I'll mix the colors from memory..

I like Quentin Tarantino, especially the early films, but I'm a big fan of Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges... you know, people were writing great di….

I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve to remind us ….

Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for anoth….