Memory Quotes

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.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

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.

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.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.

They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.

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.

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