Memory Quotes

Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.

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

Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.

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

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.

A liar should have a good memory.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.

I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.

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

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

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

My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties.

I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive.

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.