“Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it's hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination.” HardNamesMemoriesRecordsImagineCastsReputationErasAccomplishmentSatGovernorsModestAlaskaBallotsPalinNominationsReviveGopHeavyweightsShort Memory Author:Ron Fournier
“As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree.” DoeParentLinesMemoriesImagineProgressTreeIntelligentAnalogiesGood MemoriesSplittingAmoebaLife Line Author:Hugh Everett III
“Adaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what pages fall out. It is trying to imagine, remember the story, read it, put it down, and then write sort of an outline without the book in front of you with some hope that what you like about it will be filtered and distilled out through your memory and then that will be similar to what other people like about it.” PeopleWritingTryingBookStoriesRememberFallProcessMemoriesImagineSeeingFrontsWallPagesDown AndVersionsThrowingAdaptationOur MemoriesOutlines Author:Akiva Goldsman
“Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland. Far from it. ... No, what I mean is that Scotland's beauties, though undeniable, are obvious ones, easy to carry in the heart, easy even to describe to the benighted members of less fortunate races. Lakes, islands and mountains, heather and rowan, broad straths and narrow glens - these are jewels easily worn in the memory.” HeartMeanCountryRunningEasyBornMemoriesPerfectRaceImagineMountainMembersObviousFortunateIslandsLakesBroadsImagine ThatWornScotlandJewelsExileScotsLess FortunateHeathers Book:A pocketful of pebbles Source: A pocketful of pebbles
“When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and sees himself in the face of the boy. He imagines what the boy sees when he looks at him and finds himself becoming his own father. Inexplicably, he is moved by this. It is not just the sight of the boy that moves him, not even the thought of standing inside his father, but what he sees in the boy of his own vanished past. It is a nostalgia for his own life that he feels, perhaps, a memory of his own boyhood as a son to his father.” FeelsWritingLooksPastFacesMovingDiesFatherMemoriesBoysImagineSonBecomingStandingSightMovedNostalgiaBoyhood Book:The Invention of Solitude Source: The Invention of Solitude
“Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.” UsePastMemoriesImagine Author:Daniel Schacter
“To see something marvelous with your own eyes-that's wonderful enough. But when two of you see it, two of you together, holding hands, holding each other close, knowing that you'll both have that memory for the rest of your lives, but that each of you will only ever hold only have an incomplete half of it, and that it won't ever really exist as a whole until you're together, talking or thinking about that moment ...that's worth more than one plus one. It's worth four, or eight, or some number so large we can't even imagine it.” ThinkingTwoEnoughWholeMomentsHandsEyeTogetherMemoriesNumbersHalfTalkingKnowingFourImagineWonderfulEightThat MomentPlusMarvelousRest Of Your LifeIncompleteHolding HandsHand Holding Author:Alastair Reynolds
“I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use my memory of settings, events and people. I weave history into my stories, but my narratives are made up.” PeopleWayWritingMadeStoriesUseMemoriesFictionImagineEventsReaderSettingSettingsNarrativeBoredNon Fiction Author:Sefi Atta
“The old gods and their magics did not dwindle away into murky memories of brownies and little fairies more at home in a Disney cartoon; rather, they changed. The coming of Christ and Christians actually freed them. They were no longer bound to people's expectations but could now become anything that they could imagine themselves to be. They are still here, walking among us. We just don't recognize them anymore.” PeopleLittlesStillsHomeChristianChristMemoriesImagineMagicChangedWalkingExpectationsBoundsFairyCartoonBrowniesDisney Cartoon Book:Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks
“I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold - you cannot imagine a whole novel before you write it; there are limits to human memory and imagination. Lots of things come to your mind as you write a book, but again, I make a plan, chapter, know the plot.” KnowsWritingMindHumansBookWholeCoursesImaginationMemoriesNovelImaginePlansLimitsPlotChapters Author:Orhan Pamuk
“I have a house that I bought 55 years ago. It's warm in the winter; it's cool in the summer. It has everything I wanted, plus it has all kinds of good memories. Like my kids, I have good thoughts about that. I can't imagine living any better.” YearsKindI CanKidsWantedHouseMemoriesImagineSummerYears AgoWinterWarmAll KindsPlusGood ThoughtsGood Memories Author:Warren Buffett