Best memories & vivid Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Stills Self Bigs Remember Memories Wind Reader Findings Our Family Theme Vivid Incidents Our Memories Saga Self Contained

Book:Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past

Source: Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past

“Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.”

Literature Memories Vivid Patches

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid.”

Long Feelings Memories Remains Related Dependent Persist Vivid Repression Suppression

Author:Alexander Lowen

“Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that I catch my breath in wonder before the vignette disappears, sinking like a pebble into the quicksand of regret and recrimination.”

Mind Memories Wonder Regret Breaths Surface Disappear Vivid Here And There Sinking Of My Mind Pebbles Firefly Quicksand Vignettes

Author:Susan Kay

“Every vivid memory holds some essential truth about your vision of the world”

World Memories Vision Essentials Vivid Vivid Memories

Book:The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft

Source: The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft

“Drinking wine is easy: tilt glass and swallow. Really tasting wine is more of a challenge. You need the proper tools and environment, the ability to concentrate, a good memory and a vivid imagination.”

Needs Easy Imagination Challenges Memories Ability Environment Tools Wine Drinking Glasses Vivid Good Memories Tasting Drinking Wine Tilt Vivid Imagination

Author:Marvin Shanken

“Memories began swarming in, vivid and impatient, like a litter of little mice.”

Littles Memories Mice Vivid Impatient

Book:Piaf: a biography

Source: Piaf: a biography

“I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.”

Children Memories Walking Tape Vivid Cassettes Vivid Memories Cassette Tapes

Author:James Vincent McMorrow

“Africa has a genious for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and to some foretaste of apocalypse. Nowhere is day more vivid or night darker. Nowhere are forests more luxuriant. Nowhere is there a continent more miserable”

Ends Seems Night Memories Extremes Connected Forests Miserable Continents Apocalypse Vivid Eden

Author:Lance Morrow

“A song playing comprises a very specific and vivid set of memory cues. Because the multiple-trace memory models assume that context is encoded along with memory traces, the music that you have listened to at various times of your life is cross-coded with the events of those times. That is, the music is linked to events of the time, and those events are linked to the music.”

Life Is Song Memories Events Music Is Models Crosses Assuming Various Multiple Linked Vivid Time Of Your Life

Book:This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

Source: This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

“My most vivid memories of those times weren't the actual nuts and bolts, but just pleasant times sitting with Jack [Kirby] in his studio, going over the pages and looking out the window at my kids playing in his swimming pool .”

Kids Memories Pages Sitting Window Studios Pleasant Swimming Nuts Pool Vivid Bolts Swimming Pool Kids Playing Nuts And Bolts Vivid Memories

Author:Mike Royer

“Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it's like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn't exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day's work and always brings a smile to your face.”

Love Long Two Helping Seems Faces Young Memories Clear Childhood Laughter Phones Brilliant Your Children Colour Daily Life Your Face Vivid Brighter Phone Calls Reggae Long Day

Author:Bob Marley

“I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.”

Firsts Stills Memories Saws Elements Tables Excitement Vivid Periodic Table Vivid Memories

Author:Joe Murray

“It's a funny thing - the reality is I have no feelings about school. It's long gone. Funnily enough, the bad memories - of which I don't have any left to be honest, I can just remember a sense of tedium - have faded. And teachers that I liked have remained quite vivid. There are three or four left.”

Long I Can Enough Feelings Reality School Remember Three Left Memories Gone Teacher Four Honest Being Honest Vivid Funny Things Faded Tedium Bad Memories

Author:Colin Firth

“We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs forever, but in the august light of abiding memories.”

Light Memories Forever Streams Vivid Abiding August

Book:Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

“What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.”

Memories Perceive Anticipation Vivid Fringe

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“Making all of those words work together is difficult. It took a lot of cleaning up, a lot of rewriting scenes in order to make them more vivid. I used everything - every oddity I've ever seen on the side of the road, every interesting memory I could make relevant.”

Together Used Order Difficult Sides Memories Interesting Scene Working Together Relevant Cleaning Very Interesting Vivid Rewriting Cleaning Up Oddities

Author:Mary J. Miller

“I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity.”

People Memories Catholic Neighborhood March Chicago Vivid Polish Ethnicity Parish Vivid Memories Lithuanians

Author:Sara Paretsky

“The first scene I ever appeared in, it was the first scene I ever shot [during my] first day on set. I walk up to my mom with a plastic bag over my head and she says that her clothes better not be on the floor, not that a plastic bag is not a safety hazard or anything. I think it's a really cute scene and also just a very vivid memory.”

Thinking Firsts Memories Walks Mom Scene Clothes Shots Safety My Mom Cute Bags Plastic Vivid Hazards Plastic Bags Really Cute Vivid Memories

Author:Kiernan Shipka

“I have very vivid memories of being a young child. My mother would create dinner as for us, and when she would bake, she would leave some dough for me. I would roll the dough into little sticks while she was cooking the apple tart of whatever. I was looking through the window of the oven and flipping the light, and then my bread would come out, and it was inedible, of course.”

Children Littles Light Young Mother Courses Memories Window Cooking Sticks Dinner Bread Apples Vivid Young Children Ovens Dough Tarts Vivid Memories

Author:Eric Ripert

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