Memory Quotes

I think all writing is done through memory.

I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'

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

I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.

That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency.

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

We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can't unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what's there.

My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express.

Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

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

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

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.

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

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.

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

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.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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.