Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dona Stephens

We bought this house in '73 and all their childhood memories are tied up with this house. They really wanted me to restore it and that's what I'm going to do. I'm hoping it doesn't happen again. If it does, I'll rebuild again, because this is my home.

Houssaye Houssaye

Always have old memories, and young hopes.

William Shakespeare

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain

William Shakespeare

What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

William Shakespeare

I'll note you in my book of memory.

William Shakespeare

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

Alan Cooper

Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true. Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me. My computer's memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.

Alan Cooper

Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, To scenes by memory's silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung From one united heart.

Alan Bennett

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Sandra Witelson

We're going to need to be careful if, in the future, we use MRI brain scans as a measure of ability in any selection process.

J. M. Roberts

What we're most worried about is brain recovery. Anybody who suffers anoxic brain injury -- inadequate oxygen to the brain -- can develop a longtime disability.

Joe Farren

What about the young parents whose baby sitter is trying to call them, or the brain surgeon who needs notification of emergency surgery. These calls need to get through.

Carol Mann

What happens is that women tend to panic when they're losing it. Whereas, generally speaking, men, rather than panic, go to another place: resignation. At a U.S. Open, panic is worse. Your brain floods, everything slips away, and there is nothing you can do.

Dr. McKinlay

We found that on I.Q. and other aspects of brain function, as well as kidney function, the group that received the mercury-based amalgam was exactly the same as those that received a composite.

Helen Christensen

We found that, on average, men aged 64 years have smaller brains than men aged 60. However, despite this shrinkage, cognitive functions -- like memory, attention and speed of processing -- are unaffected.

Ernie Irvan

We can do a lot more in our everyday lives to prevent brain injuries. I'd like to see everyone here, when they buy that next car, make sure it has side airbags. And make sure kids under 15 always wear a helmet for bike riding, skateboarding, rollerblading. We could save a life a day just by doing that.

James Logan

Years ago, how do you think they made the atomic bomb? ... By having people with the brains to do it.

David Madden

We feel that results of our tests represent an important first step understanding the complex relationships between aging, brain structure and cognitive performance. The brain can be very plastic in how it re-directs pathways and functions in response to circumstances.

Elliot Diringer

We've asked the OPEC nations to keep an open mind about increased oil production, and we continue to believe an increase is good for both producing and consuming nations.

Ellen MacArthur

When I was out there I was never ever alone, there was always a team of people behind me, in mind if not in body.

Dee Bradley Baker

When I was a child, I thought I was going to be a paleontologist because I loved dinosaurs. I loved monster movies and sci-fi, and then 'Star Wars' came out, and I was completely out of my mind with that, with 'Close Encounters,' and then I thought maybe I was going to go into special effects makeup, which I thought was awesome.

Tyrone Marshall

We're more aware of each other now. Guys are looking out for each other. We're doing more things together. That definitely relieves some of the stress and heartache that we've been having over the past couple of weeks. Being able to come out here and play soccer is a step in the right direction. Doug is still in our minds and our hearts.

Mike Keating

We're mindful that looting is a possibility and we have the resources if we need to deal with it.

Mayco Villafana

We're going to take into consideration the inspection cycles, but keep in mind poles don't deteriorate overnight.

Marshall Acuff

We're going to get to a point where the market is going to stabilize. Keep in mind that really what's going on is that we're taking excess out of the market, and we're doing it in a relatively orderly fashion. In the long term, I think this is very healthy for the overall market. I would call it a period of rebalancing.

Katie Aselton

As an actor, you're lucky if you get a month before a project starts. There are times when you get a day before a project starts. So to be able to really sit and inhabit that mind and the story is really beneficial, and it really helps for me to be able to then compartmentalize as we're shooting and detach and go somewhere else.

George Osborne

What this country needs is a Chancellor with his mind on the job not on inheriting the Prime Minister's crown.