Scott Turow Quotes

I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.

I have this coat that I got in a nefarious deal years ago. It's a Johnny Carson coat, and I've had it remade three times. It's mine all the time. Carson was a real man, and I thought, 'Coats for real men by real men? I'm in.'

I've got tapes that I'm so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. I've got a ton of those things at home. He kept those like fine diamonds, I mean he kept them, you know, in a box and was very, very careful of them, you know.

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw anything out.

I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.

I have two paintings that used to belong to my grandmother, who lived in Chicago. When I was young, I used to sleep over at her house. They came to me when she passed away. I remember looking at them when I was a girl, and now, every time I see them, I feel good.

The only thing I got of my granddaddy's is a necktie.

Sometimes a single item can wrap up, in a nutshell, who a person is. In my grandparents' home, a clear plastic container was enthroned on top of the mahogany bar for at least a decade. Painted on the lid in pink, yellow and light blue was 'Have a Nosh With Mort & Ethel'.

I keep mementos from everything I've done.

Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives there until you die? Just those little things.

We take things to remind us of home. I think my favourite is a stuffed dog that was homemade from a picture of my little Jack Russell terrier.

I've kept all of my shirts that wore in the World Cup games, and I'll be giving them to my family to keep.

I was really inspired by keeping alive these things of my childhood.

My grandmother knitted me a crochet top when I was 15. I still fit into it and will never give it away.

For my 50th birthday, my cousin Helmut gave me the most profound, beautiful, and striking present. He made books out of my dad's slide photographs, which were stored and forgotten. Looking at those books made me cry.

I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.

Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape.

Nothing recalls the past like music.

Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.

If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.

I like to add personal touches to my decorating style, including photographs and nostalgic items that remind me of family and home.

Memories are perhaps the best gifts of all.