Brassaï Quotes
Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.
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My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.
Walead Beshty
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Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.
Ulrich Beck
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Wendell Berry
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
Wayne Rooney
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
Lactantius
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My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.
Padma Lakshmi
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How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging me to delve into my memory to find its match point.
Rachel Nichols
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I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.
Floyd Skloot
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
P. D. James
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If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
Taylor Caldwell
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I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.
J. Michael Straczynski
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I accomplished something big and that's a memory I will never forget.
Gabby Douglas
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My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale.
Candace Camp
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Studies by many labs have already started to identify specific circuits of neurons involved in normal cognitive function like memory and learning, as well as disease processes such as Parkinson's disease, depression, and autism.
Feng Zhang
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A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
Irvin S. Cobb
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Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.
Linda Ronstadt
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But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth for our future. God reminds us of the past to protect us from a very shallow security in the present.
Oswald Chambers
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For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills.
Mari Evans
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The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
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I think the Harry Potter movies are proof that audiences love that stuff. They love the idea of magical objects and they like learning the rules of those objects and what they do.
Scott Derrickson
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It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
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Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best thing that could have happened because he just wouldn't settle for less. It had to be right, and it had to be good.
Dean Dillon
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Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.
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