Quotes of: I-remember Keyword

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his ...

Education of a Wandering Man

She brought a chair into the room and placed it alongside the top of his bed. Then she held his hand as he drifted off to sleep. It was so small in her own hand, and it felt warm and dry. She pressed his hand gently, and his fingers returned the pres...

Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers

The important thing for the remembering author is not what he experienced, but the weaving of his memory, the Penelope work of recollection. Or should one call it, rather, the Penelope work of forgetting? ... And is not his work of spontaneous recoll...

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the...

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it but they couldn’t. They could fight the first Marne again but not this. This took religion and years of plenty and tremendous sureties a...

Tender Is the Night

Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate a stack of reading material—much of it unrelated to their day-to-day focus at Microsoft—and then th...

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

Magnus remembered a town in Peru whose Quechua name meant “quiet place.” He recalled even more vividly being obscenely drunk and unhappy over his heartbreak of that time, and the maudlin thoughts that had recurred to him over the years, like an u...

What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything

Remember!--It is Christianity to do good always--even to those who do evil to us. It is Christianity to love our neighbours as ourself, and to do to all men as we would have them do to us. It is Christianity to be gentle, merciful and forgiving, and ...

Charles Dickens

So rest and relax and grow stronger, Let go and let God share your load, Your work is not finished or ended, You’ve just come to “a bend in the road”. “When you ask God for a gift, be thankful if He sends, not diamonds, pearls or riches, but ...

Helen Steiner Rice

Natalie: Tell me about her again. Leonard Shelby: Why? Natalie: Because you like to remember her. Leonard Shelby: She was beautiful. To me, she was perfect. Natalie: No, don't just recite the words. Close your eyes... and remember her. Leonard Shelby...

Memento

Am I making myself clear, Orrin? I don't regret how I've lived these past few years. I move where I will. I set no appointments. I guard no borders. What landbound king has the freedom of a ship's captain? The Sea of Brass provides. When I need haste...

Red Seas Under Red Skies

Scarlet, before you go through this, I want to remind you of September 7th, 1988. It was the first time that I saw you. You were reading Less Than Zero, and you were wearing a Guns 'n' Roses t-shirt. I'd never seen anything so perfect. I remember thi...

Love

And finally, always remember that the other person started it.

Drinking and Tweeting and Other Brandi Blunders

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

A Discovery of Witches

There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost.

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

Remember, it’s the pace that kills, never the distance.

The Ghost Runner: The Tragedy of the Man They Couldn't Stop

Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.

Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"

After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?

The Bonesetter's Daughter

Remember the phrase - 'Act your age, not your shoe size?' That didn't apply to me, as they were the same until the age of 12 when my feet stopped growing.

Judy Gold

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

Vaclav Havel

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

B. C. Forbes