Memory Quotes

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

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

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen.

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.

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

I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

As people get older and fall out of the spotlight, people's memory of them changes.

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

For the first time in your conscious memory; for the first time in fact, since your were a baby; a single tear, full and warm, rolled down your right cheek and you fell into a very deep and entirely dreamless slumber.

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

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of 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.

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.

You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.

Saturday night is when my hair would be fixed up and that was my memory.

The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to give it memory value.

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.

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like,'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'

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

I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now.

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

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

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.