Stories And Memories Quotes

Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone. — John Slattery

People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner. — Judith Lewis Herman

Anything can be a weapon in imaginative hands. — Jane Prowse

Perfume is a story in odors, sometimes a poetry of memory — Jean-Claude Ellena

Maybe stories and memories are destined to be incomplete... — Lisa See

Empowered Women 101: You are either creating drama or creating memories together. The choice is yours. — Shannon L. Alder

We understand the world by how we retrieve memories, re-order information into stories to justify how we feel. — Stephen Elliott

She started telling Lyda stories, odd nameless placeless stories, about the man and the woman, myths or memories, perhaps from her own childhood. — Julianna Baggott

Take me back into the time when I lost track of time! — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

There is always some distortion in the re-telling of any story. — Marty Rubin

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places. — Isabel Allende

As your trusted Indian scout, it is important for me to warn you that you are now on perilously thin ice — Craig Johnson

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed. — Marvin Olasky

If i were to lose my memories, I would rely on music. There is so much of my story embedded in each. — Jason Mraz

All I had to do was open a book - to see the stories bleeding from page to page. To see the memories etched onto paper. — Tahereh Mafi

And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories. — Paulo Coelho

I believe that we can access stories, and voices from those around us, more easily often than from our own imperfect memories. — Tom Barbash

Even if you're in charge of the grand story there's still memory. The other stories do not go away. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

I'm not perfect, but I'm the truth. — Ron Killings

Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions. — Patrick Stump

The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism. — Albert Schweitzer

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history. — Anthony Doerr

Someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories. I'm a collector of shavings. — Sasa Stanisic

At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left. — Chuck Palahniuk

Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves. — Melissa De La Cruz

Stories, after all, are merely memories given a certain tangibility with words, and it only takes a few words to subsume a memory completely. — Chris Bohjalian

(Don) Sutton
lost thirteen games in a row without winning a ballgame. — Ralph Kiner

Stories are where memories go when they are forgotten. — Steven Moffat

Dip your hands into life, scoop up memories, dreams, questions and ideas and weave them into stories. — Naomi Kinsman

Careful with what you know and what you experience. Sometimes, closed mouth with memories is better than opened mouth with stories. — Karolyn James

Lost luggage is just an opportunity to start afresh. — Chris Evans

Had I known only tells us the regretful stories of yesterday better — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

This [June's] account poignantly illustrates many of the multi- faceted, complex, and contradictory processes contained in participants' stories. — Norma Jean Profitt