Nayantara Sahgal Quotes
For societies are built as much on what people choose to forget as what they remember.
Nayantara Sahgal
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan Poe
Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading.
Patrick deWitt
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
A. A. Milne
No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
Queen Elizabeth II
I'll often get obsessed with something for about three days, and I'll be utterly into it, and I'll read every single thing about it possible. And then three days later, I'll just forget about it, and I'll be onto something else.
Ed Gamble
Turkey is fine, but if I don't have the sides, forget about it. And cornbread stuffing is at the center of my plate. I will have about six sides and then a little bit of turkey and gravy.
Carla Hall
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
Samuel Butler
Whenever I come to Delhi, I forget about eating right and watching my weight.
Madhur Bhandarkar
Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.
Carl Orff
This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.
Olivia Colman
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
Saint Basil
'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget.
Ira Sachs
Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories.
Joshua Foer
When an old man and a young man work together, it can make an ugly sight or a pretty one, depending on who's in charge. If the young man's in charge or won't let the old man take over, the young man's brute strength becomes destructive and inefficient, and the old man's intelligence, out of frustration, grows cruel and inefficient. Sometimes the old man forgets that he is old and tries to compete with the young man's strength, and then it's a sad sight. Or the young man forgets that he is young and argues with the old man about how to do the work, and that's a sad sight, too.
Russell Banks
And I love what I do and I love skating.
Nancy Kerrigan
I feel like they are starting from scratch again, 10 steps backwards.
J. M. Roberts
For societies are built as much on what people choose to forget as what they remember.
Nayantara Sahgal
