Memory Quotes

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.

I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!

The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. They've changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory.

When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

His name, Buzz, fits. He can buzz along at 40 miles an hour when his genetic memory moves him.

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest.

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.

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