“It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.” MemoriesLaysBurdenTrustworthyNotorious Book:Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)
“Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember; others lay criticism asleep by a charm. Especially women use words that are not words,--as steps in a dance are not steps,--but reproduce the genius of that they speak of; as the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely, whilst the church chimes in the distance bring the church and its serious memories before us.” ThinkingMenUseRememberSpeakSoundChurchMemoriesStepsSeriousGeniusApproachArgumentCriticismHorseLaysDistanceCharmBellsDisputesPrecisionTalkersChimes Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.” ReadingMemoriesLaysSentencesSeatsLengthQuotationsHerbsPluckMusingsPruning Author:Elizabeth I
“a daughter's love for a kind father ... is mixed with the careless happiness of childhood, which can never come again. Into the father's grave the daughter, sometimes a gray-haired woman, lays away forever the little pet names and memories which to all the rest of the world are but foolishness.” WorldKindLittlesSometimesFatherNamesMemoriesForeverChildhoodDaughterLaysGravesPetGrayFoolishnessCarelessPet Names Book:Anne: A Novel Source: Anne: A Novel
“Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood” LongMemoriesBloodShadowLaysLandscapeGrandmotherImmenseInteriorsMy GrandmotherLong LifeRainyContinental Book:The Way to Rainy Mountain Source: The Way to Rainy Mountain
“By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.” ThinkingNeedsFirstsSongMemoriesRecordsPaperLaysAlbumsPensTape Author:Jay-Z