Daniel Schacter Quotes

Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.

Daniel Schacter

• Future
• Past
• Memories

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • Place
  • Special

• Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Fashion
  • Unique
  • Leveler

• If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Unique
  • Innovation

• Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Life
  • War
  • Hope

• I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • World
  • Remember
  • Thought

• We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.

  

  Val Guest
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Up
  • Wife
  • End

• I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Elected
  • First Lady

• 'They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's a lie of the Left, and we're not going to take it anymore.' 5

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Church

• It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so. Retaining the male has not even the dubious purpose of reproduction.

  

  Valerie Solanas
  • Purpose

• I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Done
  • Evil

• Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my good-only they were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Sacrifice

• By becoming aware of the dignity of the mind, we realize the true ground of the dignity of man and therewith the goodness of the world, whither we understand it as created or uncreated, which is the home of man because it is the home of the human mind.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • World
  • Mind
  • Home

• My work is anti-natureThe four-story mountainYou will not think form, space, line, contourJust a suggestion of nature gives weightlight and heavylight like a featheryou get light enough and you levitate

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Light

• I have actually been very fortunate that I've met a lot of really wonderful straight men in my life - and a lot of really wonderful gay men in my life.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Life
  • Men
  • Gay

• As much as I hate auditioning - it's so hard and awkward - it's way better to walk out of that room and win a role because of what you did.

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Hate

• I really gravitate toward having all different styles in my closet because I feel like I always want to dress to fit my mood or where I am going. I do love Jason Wu; he is also a really good friend of mine, and I love what he is doing for Hugo Boss these days.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Good
  • Different
  • Friend

• Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

  

  Doc Watson
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Intimacy

• Now, today is the day we honor, of course, the Presidents, ranging from George Washington, who couldn't tell a lie, to George Bush, who couldn't tell the truth, to Bill Clinton, who couldn't tell the difference.

  

  Jay Leno
  • Truth
  • Today
  • Honor

• For some directors, I'm the actor from hell.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Actor
  • Hell
  • Directors

• I'm not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I'm very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I'm not that private, so it's not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life.

  

  John Corbett
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Now after arrest, within three months, the consular services will have to be made available.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Services
  • Arrest

• In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Future
  • Society
  • Question

• Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.

  

  Daniel Schacter
  • Future
  • Past
  • Memories