The Abuses Of Memory Quotes & Sayings

They always say that Albert Einstein was a genius. Then how come when anyone ever calls you that, it's an insult? 'You don't know where you parked the car? Good job, Einstein.' I don't think we're honoring that man properly by using his name in vain in parking lots. — Brian Regan

Be superior to pleasure. — Cleobulus

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

As you say," Tyrion grinned. "If I were Volantene, and free, and had the blood, you'd have my vote for triarch, my lady."
"I am no lady," the widow replied, "just Vogarro's whore. You want to be gone from here before the tigers come. Should you reach your queen, give her a message from the slaves of Old Volantis." She touched the faded scar upon her wrinkled cheek, where her tears had been cut away. "Tell her we are waiting. Tell her to come soon. — George R R Martin

Isn't Halle Berry the most beautiful woman? I have a film I'd like to be in her with. I mean, I'd like to be with her in — Ewan McGregor

We read scripture in order to be refreshed in our memory and understanding of the story within which we ourselves are actors, to be reminded where it has come from and where it is going to, and hence what our own part within it ought to be. — N. T. Wright

Life cannot withstand death, but memory is gaining in its struggle against nothingness. — Tzvetan Todorov

Women made the best beekeepers 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. — Sue Monk Kidd

You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not. — Doris Roberts

If goodness is its own reward, shouldn't we get a little something for being naughty? — Lauren Bacall

SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies. — Diana Wynne Jones

A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise. — Pope Francis

By contrast, training and goal-setting programs had a far greater impact on productivity than did anything involving payment.32 — Alfie Kohn

My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been clearly and consistently defined in the literature on art. This line is not a straight one; it has the strangest and most fascinating twists and curves, and includes such artists as Edvard Munch, Ernest Josephson, Hill , Hansen Jacobsen, Johannes Holbek, Jens Lund, and Emile Nolde. Not all of them equally well known. — Asger Jorn

I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn't exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do. — Dick York

For every good art critic there may be ten great artists. — Clement Greenberg