Famous quotes containing the words memory and/or alloy:
“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)