Mnemonist Quotes & Sayings

No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours. — Jimmy Page

When we are feeling at a loss in a poem, metaphor comes to the rescue. Metaphor is instructive, tactical, and interactive; it succeeds when its audience sees it as both strange and true. We need metaphor to make the error that allows us to reach beyond ourselves. — Ann Townsend

With true love until life begins. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Prodigies began to waken somewhere southwest of his twelfth rib, and he himself- still mirroring the Lady Amalthea- began to shine. — Peter S. Beagle

I don't let myself get upset about the little nitpicky things anymore. — Eric Shanteau

Luria's Mind of a Mnemonist. — Oliver Sacks

I just love doing different things, which is what being a working author is like. — David Hewson

The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist. — Marcus Buckingham

The Mind of a Mnemonist — Temple Grandin

Then, when the stars came out, Ma took out her fiddle. We all quieted down while she tuned the strings, and I got the funniest feeling. I felt as if I was looking at everyone from far away in space, or maybe even in time. They all looked so beautiful sitting in the darkness of the woods under the stars. Their faces were pink and warm and happy in the firelight. I felt perfectly happy and perfectly sad all at the same time, and tears came into my eyes. — Kristin Kladstrup

In the end, everything is found to be wanting. — Frank Lentricchia

Surely he would call me, wouldn't she? She would know how panicked...how desperate I would be. She's not vindictive like that, is she? — Paula Hawkins

What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity. — Joshua Foer