#memo

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#bear #burden #faculties #failing #hard

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#artist #every #every man #great #her

The way I look at it, they're all part of my musical diary, and I can listen to any one of them and it will bring up memories of what was going on at that time. ↗

— John Mayall

#bring #diary #going #i #i can

I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event. ↗

— Martina McBride

#cooking #creating #creativity #event #i

My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even. ↗

— Martina McBride

#artists #band #conway #country #country music

When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know? ↗

— Bode Miller

#get #hard #head #kind #know

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable. ↗

— Rick Moody

#i #make #makes #memorable #more

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be. ↗

— Rick Moody

#doing #exactly #great #happened #i

My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert. ↗

— Rick Moody

#earliest #earliest memories #family #grandfather #had

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#free verse #memorable #much #poem #poetry