My good sense bitch-slapped my estrogen and told her to get a grip.
Bad things happen to good people: The Jesus Christ Syndrome, I labeled it.
And the pomegranates,/ like memories, are bittersweet/ as we huddle together,/ remembering just how good/ life used to be
I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.
Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory
I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.
My memories of Australian cricket are it was an environment of good fun.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Memory works in different ways for everybody. Different capacities, different directions, too. Sometimes memory helps you think, sometimes it impedes. Doesn’t mean it’s good or bad. Probably means it’s no big deal.
We have seen that there are two misconceptions involved in the myth that memory is a thing. One is that memory is a (a tangible structure rather than an abstract process) and the other is that memory is thing (one memory rather than many memories).
Most of the times, we feel more enjoyment from just recalling good memories of the past rather from those moments we lived,not because we did not have a good time but because realization has come late.
This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.
The one thing I need to leave behind is good memories.
Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and forgery, perplexity and urgency, revelation and darkness.
One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.
Most of my food memories are of my Nan cooking Sunday dinners - roasts of meat with lots of vegetables. I suppose I cook what's comforting and dishes that make me feel good.
I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.
All our good and bad memories—they were like our B-side diaries. They were like those songs on old dusty punk albums that no one listened to anymore.
Never blame anyone in life. The good people give you happiness. The worst people give you a lesson. The best people give you memories.
Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau days, imploded years. Like a bad actor, memory always goes for effect, abjuring motivation, consis...
Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.
