Memory Quotes

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

An angel has no memory.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.

I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

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

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.

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

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

America is stronger than ever. We will forever remember those we lost on September 11, 2001. In honoring their memory, we will remain true to our commitment to freedom and democracy.

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

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.

My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.