“Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world.” ThinkingWorldYearsLooksWantedMemoriesWalksLove YouPromiseForgottenPleasantTallNew YearVowSweetestGrudgeNew Years EveSay I Love YouHappy New YearBest YearNew Year's ResolutionsNew Year New BeginningHappy New Year EveNew Year WishesOld YearNew Years Eve LoveSmile MorePleasant Memories Author:Ann Landers
“Thank God I never hooked on anything. I never had a monkey on my back. I just wanted to self-medicate, to numb myself through liquor. It's how I dealt with life, reality, stress, change, sadness, memories. The list goes on. I was really trying to feel nothing.” FeelsTryingSelfRealityWantedMemoriesSadnessGoes OnDrugStressAlcoholListsThank GodMonkeysLiquorNumbHooked Author:Johnny Depp
“I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.” YearsFirstsWantedMemoriesEnglandBritishAustraliaVery HappyHappy Memories Author:Naomi Watts
“I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.” HardWantedJobsThreeProcessMemoriesMinesCherishThree ThingsCherish The Memories Author:Lance Armstrong
“I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory. If we are not remembered, we are more than dead, for it is as if we had never lived” IfsWantedMemoriesGoes OnRemembered Author:Karen Maitland
“My earliest memories about music are connected with going to church and listening to organ music. I am not from a musical family, actually, and I remember my first musical fascination to be for organ music. I wanted to become an organist and not a pianist.” FirstsWantedRememberChurchMemoriesListeningMusicalConnectedOrgansFascinationPianistGoing To Church Author:Rafal Blechacz
“In time, after a dozen years of centering their lives around the games boys play with one another, the boys' bodies change and that changes everything else. But the memories are not erased of that safest time in the lives of men, when their prime concern was playing games with guys who just wanted to be their friendly competitors. Life never again gets so simple.” MenYearsPlayBodyWantedGuyGamesMemoriesSimpleBoysConcernFriendlyPrimeDozenCompetitorsPlaying GamesCenteringBody Change Author:Frank Pittman
“Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.” UseTruthWantedMemoriesFormalFastidious Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could.” StillsWantedMemoriesPerspectiveMemoirSubjectiveFactual Author:Cheryl Strayed
“I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.” AgeWantedYoungMemoriesTakenReaderBecomingLibraryLocalsLogicalYoung AgeLibrarianBooksellers Author:Michael Scott
“I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.” WantedMemoriesFilesGood Memories Author:Ken Thompson
“I always think back to my childhood and I have a distinct memory of me not having any idea who I wanted to be. The funny thing is that I feel the same way now. So much time has passed and I haven't a definitive sense of self.” ThinkingWayFeelsIdeasSelfWantedMemoriesChildhoodHavensFunny ThingsSense Of Self Author:Pamela Anderson
“What happened after 9/11 - and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not - was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons....The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldHeartHas BeensWarReasonWantedUsedFightingNationsMemoriesIssuesHappenedEventsHeroHorrorShould HaveShameOccasionsFakeJustifyCashShould Have BeenShamefulAtrocitiesUnifyingWrong ReasonsWedgesRudy Author:Paul Krugman
“One of the best memories of my life is contemplating that first finished drawing and realizing I had cracked the code, that I could make drawings like this whenever I wanted.” FirstsWantedLife IsRealizingMemoriesFinishedDrawingCodeContemplatingCrackedBest Memories Author:Jim Woodring
“When she (my mother) passed away, I kind of understood the commitment that she made to make sure that I could stay in skating. And I wanted to live up to whatever I could. Not so much win everything, but just to be the best that I could possibly be, to honor her memory and everything she went through to make sure that I was given the opportunities to be the best that I can be. Not to be a world champion or an Olympic gold medalist, but to be the best that I could be. And that was the most important thing that ever happened in my career.” WorldKindMadeI CanImportantWantedMotherOpportunityWinningGivenMemoriesCareersHappenedHonorUnderstoodCommitmentGoldImportant ThingsChampionBeing The BestSkatingPassed AwayWorld ChampionsMother Passed Away Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.” CountryStatesWholeWantedRememberLostMemoriesForgetUnitedUnited StatesYesterdayAlzheimerAlzheimer's Author:Studs Terkel
“I think I wanted to be a storyteller because I had a very active dream life. My life was boring, and I dreamed about a life bigger than my own. I've always just been that person, from my earliest memories at age 2.” ThinkingPersonsDreamAgeWantedMemoriesMy OwnBiggerBoringActiveStoryteller Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol
“For all that Tron wanted to be, it ultimately had to be a fun ride for the audience and I was going to be one of the comic characters, and he was really on top of that. He was having such a good time doing it. That's my memory of it. I'd love to work with him again. I think he's great.” ThinkingCharacterWantedFunMemoriesAudienceComicGood Times Author:James Frain
“I do have very deep, fond memories of my family in Mexico City, but I also remember feeling funny for not speaking English - I was basically an immigrant. But I picked up the language fast and soon I knew that I wanted to be a writer.” FeelingsWantedRememberLanguageMemoriesCitiesMy FamilyImmigrantsMexicoVery DeepMexico CityFond Memories Author:Louis C. K.
“Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.” HardWantedMemoriesCopies Author:Jim Goldberg
“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
“I wanted to capture time through how food and I were getting along at any given moment. That necessitated writing some dark stuff, some sad stuff, and a lot of painful memories, because my life has often been dark, sad, and painful. I didn't want to sugarcoat anything.” WantWritingMomentsWantedGivenStuffMemoriesDarkPainfulCapturePainful MemoriesGetting Along Author:Kate Christensen
“I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter that aspect.” ThinkingWantedMemoriesWrittenAspectGood Memories Author:Elia Suleiman
“I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer's leather briefcase, would be comics from the store.” WritingBookHomeWould BeWantedWaitingMemoriesDadStoresLawyerComicComing HomeComic BookLeatherBriefcases Author:Arvind Ethan David
“Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music, so I wanted to create soundscapes that are evocative of places that only exist in your head - that's where the fun, psychedelic stuff happens anyway.” HappensWantedFunStuffMemoriesInstrumentsPsychedelicStuff Happens Author:Alan Palomo
“I have more eating memories than cooking memories and many memories of being in the kitchen - I was always attracted to the kitchen - but nobody ever wanted me to touch anything.” WantedMemoriesEatingCookingKitchen Author:Eric Ripert
“I'm sure, out of the context here of Stanley Levison's relationship with the Jewish liberal forces, that had made contributions. I remember one such contribution before they moved from Montgomery. An associate in the real estate business with Stanley had lost a son in the war, and she wanted to do something in memory of him. So, she made available certain monies to be used by the emerging leadership there in Montgomery. I'm sure other individuals did.” MadeWarRealWantedRememberUsedCertainIndividualLostForceMemoriesSonMovedAvailableContributionEstatesAssociatesEmergingStanleyMontgomery Author:Ella Baker
“I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew up, and it was the city of my childhood memories.” StoriesWantedMemoriesCitiesChildhoodGrewGrew UpLos AngelesChildhood Memories Author:Curtis Hanson
“I needed to enhance the outward threat to Rachel.In the book [Girl on the Train], her inner threat is so strong; the fear of herself and her inability to remember and the false memories. In the film [Girl on the Train]I wanted to increase the exterior threat. So that's why Allison's part was bigger and was an important part of the climax of the film.” ImportantBookWantedRememberFilmGirlStrongMemoriesNeededBiggerIncreaseTrainThreatInabilityExteriorClimaxAllison Author:Erin Cressida Wilson
“I've spoken about this completely independent of this movie prior to ever being attached to this film that as a kid the first movie that I remember seeing that resonated with me was the Wizard of Oz. I think just visually the color, the spectrum of it and how fantastical it was and how much you wanted to live in that world, for a nine-year old was so magical and so grand so I have the greatest, fondest memories of it.” ThinkingWorldYearsFirstsKidsWantedRememberFilmMemoriesSeeingColorIndependentNineWizardsSpectrumNine Years Author:Mila Kunis