Memory Quotes

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

My work has typically been about finding a means to express memory and commemoration for loss and grief.

I'm taking memory power boost tablets to help me every day and doing the puzzles to help me stay focused.

If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.

I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.

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

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

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

I have a great memory.

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

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

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

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

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.

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

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.

Observation is an old man's memory.