Quotes on Memory

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

Author: Spencer Abraham

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

Author: Franklin Adams

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.

Author: Shmuel Agnon

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.

Author: Anna Akhmatova

Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?

Author: Kevin Anderson

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

Author: Francis Bacon

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

Author: Augusto Bastos

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.

Author: Jacqueline Bisset

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Author: Edward Bono

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Author: Jorge Borges

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Author: James Cabell

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

Author: Taylor Caldwell

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Author: Lewis Carroll

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Author: Marcus Cicero

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Author: Marcus Cicero

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Author: Marcus Cicero

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

Author: Pierre Corneille

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

Author: E. Cossman

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

Author: Roald Dahl

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

Author: Georges Duhamel

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

Author: Bob Dylan

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

Author: Tracey Emin

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

Author: William Faulkner

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!

Author: Morton Feldman

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

Author: F. Fitzgerald

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

Author: Thomas Fuller

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

Author: Alma Guillermoprieto

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

Author: Joe Henderson

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

Author: James Herriot

I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

Author: Earl Hines

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.

Author: Morris Hite

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

Author: James Howell

I think all writing is done through memory.

Author: Guillermo Infante

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.

Author: Janet Jackson

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Author: Samuel Johnson

You never know when you're making a memory.

Author: Rickie Jones

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

Author: Justin Kaplan

We can invent only with memory.

Author: Alphonse Karr

I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

Author: Charlie Kaufman

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

Author: Ken Kesey

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.

Author: Anselm Kiefer

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

Author: Jack Kilby

The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.

Author: Diane Lane

The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.

Author: Jonathan Lethem

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

Author: Al Lewis

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

Author: Penelope Lively

Memory is more indelible than ink.

Author: Anita Loos

Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.

Author: James MacArthur

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Author: Toni Morrison

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.

Author: Alice Munro

I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.

Author: Adela Nicolson

States. Of course, I'm speaking only from memory.

Author: Edgar Nye

A liar should have a good memory.

Author: Quintilian

You have to have a short memory as a closer.

Author: Frank Robinson

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.

Author: Cesar Romero

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

Author: Ferdinand Saussure

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

Author: George Savile

I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.

Author: Vernon Smith

An angel has no memory.

Author: Terry Southern

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

Author: Robert Stevenson

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.

Author: J. Straczynski

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.

Author: J. Straczynski

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

Author: Wislawa Szymborska

I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.

Author: Amy Tan

I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.

Author: Ken Thompson

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.

Author: Lee Trevino

I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization and using an actual recreation, affective memory, if you want to call it, of pain.

Author: Ray Walston

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Author: Elie Wiesel

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Author: Oscar Wilde

There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.

Author: Cassandra Wilson

Time flies, but memories last forever, woven together like a tapestry of our experiences.

Author: Maya Angelou

Time flies by, but memories last forever.

Author: Emily Parker

You never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

Author: Ellen Hopkins

Flowers may wither, but their beauty and fragrance linger on in our memories.

Author: Bella Fields

Life is a collection of memories woven together by the threads of time.

Author: Katherine Reed

Life is a journey full of unexpected detours, embrace the adventure and cherish the memories.

Author: Sophia Rodriguez

Lost time is never found again, but the memories we create in that time stay with us forever.

Author: Samantha Jones

The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory.

Author: Maya Angelou

Life is a collection of moments, each one a brushstroke on the canvas of our memory.

Author: Sophia Martinez

Life is a collection of moments, sewn together by the threads of memory.

Author: Samantha Scott

Life is a book, and each chapter holds the memories that shape our story.

Author: Samantha Clarke

Chase the adventure of today before it becomes the memory of tomorrow.

Author: Sierra Wade

We do not remember days, we remember moments that leave footprints on our hearts.

Author: Sarah Jones

Memories are the heart's way of holding on to the moments that have shaped us.

Author: Alex Campbell

Write what should not be forgotten.

Author: Isabel Allende

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Author: Steven Wright

We take photos as a return ticket to a moment that is otherwise gone.

Author: Katie Thurmes

A clear conscience is a sure sign of a bad memory.

Author: Mark Twain

In the end, we don't remember the days, we remember the moments.

Author: Cesare Pavese

Life is like a wink from an eye; it feels brief, little do we know, the memories last much longer than the moments.

Author: Alex Turner

Adventure may not always be fun, but mistakes make for the best memories!

Author: Taylor Jenkins

Adventure may lead us astray, but the memories we make along the way guide us home.

Author: Leo Martinez

Sometimes the best adventures are just taking a stroll with a friend remembering who your favorite imaginary adventure buddy was.

Author: Emily Morrison