Marcel Proust Quotes
Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.Marcel Proust
Quotes to Explore
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Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.
Yo-Yo Ma -
Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
Wayne Grady -
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 -
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
Lactantius -
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 -
Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
Jack Huston
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The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.
Dana Snyder -
I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.
Vernon L. Smith -
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
P. D. James -
No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
Imogen Cunningham -
To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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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 -
Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
Harold Feinstein -
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 -
A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
Irvin S. Cobb -
I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice.
K. Flay -
I hate having my photograph taken.
E. L. James
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There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think... I use to feel when I walked out of my apartment on the way to school or anywhere that I was walking out on stage.
Dabney Coleman -
Going out is the typical thing when you turn 18, but it's not really much fun when you have a recognisable face.
Maisie Williams -
One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time was South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Team America is a work of genius to me.
Josh Gad -
The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.
Millicent Fawcett -
How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no resources whatsoever gets rich is simple. The British colonial government turned Hong Kong into an economic miracle by doing nothing.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
Marcel Proust