Memory Quotes

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

I think all writing is done through memory.

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that result if episodes are narrated through the haze of memory.

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

You don't have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory.

I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory.

Language is memory and metaphor.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.

Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.

We can invent only with memory.

I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.

My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.

The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.

I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs.

I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

A liar should have a good memory.

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.

For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

I've never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure there's enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures.

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.

I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization and using an actual recreation, affective memory, if you want to call it, of pain.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

White Americans have a short memory.

I have a terrible memory.

Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

When my father was assassinated, I decided that I would not compete with his memory, but the priority would be to achieve his dream.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

I don't profess to be an expert on anything, or have the memory for who ran in 1952. I am an informed American citizen, that's my position.

People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.