Zitat des Tages über Erinnerung / Memory:
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.
When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?
Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory.
I have a very bad memory. I can't remember my own life very well.
If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.
Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.
We have to go back to the memories of 9-11. If that memory doesn't do anything to you as an American, then you're not really that sensitive a human being.
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special.
My earliest memory is seeing Michael Jackson in Melbourne with my sister when I was about ten. I still have this souvenir stick with a glove that would light up and make a peace sign in a bunch of different colors. I'm so happy my mom didn't throw that out.
A liar should have a good memory.
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
No amount of time will weaken our allegiance to avenging those lost in the horrible attacks. America has a sharp memory, a firm resolve, and a commitment to her own.
While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.
I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
I'm ecstatic: meeting Ranbir was like a dream come true for me, and to perform and be praised by him is like an icing on the cake. This memory, I would cherish for my entire life.
'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.
