Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.

The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

You have a different audience. Your personal energy is different because some days you're energized, some nights you might be tired so that affects your memory and your emotion.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

The situation has provided a cue; this cue has given the expert access to information stored in memory, and the information provides the answer. Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.

If food did not exist it would be well-nigh impossible to get certain types off the phone, as one would be unable to say, 'Look, I've got to run but let's have dinner sometime soon.'

Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel.... Food = everything you can imagine.

There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time itself-can it be linear when all these snatches of other presents exist at once in your mind? A very elusive and tricky concept, time.

I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.

Our memories are independent of our wills.

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

If you can smell garlic, everything is all right.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.