Memory Quotes

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.

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.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

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.

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.

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.