Good Memories Quotes - Page 7

• I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.

  Grace Kelly

  Memories, Regret, Looking Back

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.

  Connie Stevens

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Country, Memories, World

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• So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

  John Mason Brown

  Memories, Today, Tomorrow

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• The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.

  David Antin

  Memories, Anxiety, Greek

  "A Conversation with David Antin". Book by David Antin, Charles Bernstein, 2002.

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• In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.

  Mireille Mathieu

  Memories, Triumph, Singers

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• To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

  Albert Finney

  Memories, Character, Theatre

  "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James B. Simpson, 1988.

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• Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Memories, Book, Writing

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.160

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• If you help them (the crew) create good memories, they'll forget all the bad stuff

  Geoff Dyer

  Memories, Stuff, Helping

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• Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.

  Jonathan Swift

  Memories, Two, Needs

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• A good memory is needed once we have lied.
  [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]

  Pierre Corneille

  Memories, Lying, Lied

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• If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory

  Judy Sheindlin

  Memories, Telling The Truth, Ifs

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• Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals of silk until it becomes the only good memory I have of her -- the only memory I allowed myself to keep.

  Karen White

  Strong, Memories, Hair

  Karen White (2008). “The Memory of Water”, p.11, Penguin

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• You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

  Sandra Dallas

  Memories, People, Storytelling

  Sandra Dallas (2010). “Prayers for Sale”, p.28, Macmillan

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• I didn't want it to be one good memory that led to a lot of bad ones. I wanted it to stay what it was, one amazing moment, something that was strong and sweet enough to stand on its own. Something I could remember without any pain. - Kate

  Elizabeth Scott

  Sweet, Strong, Pain

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• May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.

  Stephen King

  Pain, Memories, May

  Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• This tug-of-war often obscures what's also happening between us. I am your mother, the first mile of your road. Me and all my obvious and hidden limitations. That means that in addition to possibly wrecking you, I have the chance to give to you what was given to me: a decent childhood, more good memories than bad, some values, a sense of tribe, a run at happiness. You can't imagine how seriously I take that - even as I fail you. Mothering you is the first thing of consequence that I have ever done.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Mother, Running, Memories

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• If we knew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories." Fire corrected him, in a whisper. "The good memories.

  Kristin Cashore

  Memories, Fire, Harder

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.103, Penguin

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• Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

  William James

  Memories, Philosophy, Educational

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.161, Courier Corporation

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• A liar ought to have a good memory.

  Quintilian

  Memories, Liars, Army

  Quintilian (1873). “Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory: Or, Education of an Orator”, p.292

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• I always think clothing is like a scrapbook: you remember all the good memories and the past times.

  Cynthia Rowley

  Memories, Thinking, Past

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Memories, Years, House

  "Interview: Jeffrey Eugenides on writing in C major". Interview with Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 29, 2011.

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• The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

  Wendell Pierce

  Sports, Loyalty, Memories

  "Wendell Pierce Goes to Market". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2012.

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• I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.

  Cesar Romero

  Memories, Remember, Should

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• I think one of the finest gifts I can give my friends in the holiday season is to pause with a long enough quality to actually SEE them. My calm, unhurried presence communicates this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you. I remember our times of together and am contributing right now to another quality memory. I value you and honor and take the time, right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Christmas, Memories, Holiday

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