Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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.
~By Floyd Abrams ~
The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. They've changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory.
~By Spencer Abraham ~
You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.
~By Kay Boyle ~
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
~By Ingrid Bergman ~
People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.
~By Curtis Sittenfeld ~
Both organizations are growing rapidly due in part to answering the urgent need in the community for services and programs to help with the day-to-day struggles that come with memory disorders.
~By Leeza Gibbons ~
Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
~By Gilbert Parker ~
But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
~By James M. Barrie ~
I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.
~By Charlie Kaufman ~
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
~By Charles R. Swindoll ~
It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered.
~By Denis Norden ~
And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.
~By Andrew Lloyd Webber ~
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
~By Louis Armstrong ~
My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.
~By Jane Horrocks ~
I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
~By Ken Kesey ~
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
~By Aeschylus ~
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
~By Lewis Carroll ~
My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.
~By Griffin Dunne ~
A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.
~By Paul Davies ~
I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.
~By Flavius Josephus ~
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.
~By Jacky Ickx ~
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
~By Rebecca West ~
Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.
~By Tom Glazer ~
The last four years have not diluted the memory or weakened the resolve of our citizens. Four years later, our hearts still hurt for the families whose loved ones were murdered that day.
~By John Doolittle ~
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
~By Franklin P. Adams ~
Every man's memory is his private literature.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
~By Joyce Carol Oates ~
If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
~By Richard Russo ~
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
~By Milan Kundera ~
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?
~By Kevin J. Anderson ~
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
~By Augusto Roa Bastos ~
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.
~By Gene Fowler ~
This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.
~By Clarissa Pinkola Estes ~
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
~By Brent Scowcroft ~
A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.
~By Henry Chadwick ~
My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.
~By Warren Zevon ~
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.
~By Frank Luntz ~
She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.
~By Frank Deford ~
Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
~By James Branch Cabell ~
We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
~By Frank McCourt ~
Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.
~By Anthony Bourdain ~
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.
~By Leo Szilard ~
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
~By John Henry Newman ~
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.
~By Henri Cartier-Bresson ~
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.
~By Jon Wynne-Tyson ~
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
~By Alexander Solzhenitsyn ~
The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.
~By Max Muller ~
I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.
~By Wesley Clark ~
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
~By Edwin Markham ~
If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
~By A. E. Housman ~
A good memory is needed after one has lied.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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.
~By Anna Akhmatova ~
No man surely has so short a memory as the American.
~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
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.
~By David Leavitt ~
How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen.
~By Mel Torme ~
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.
~By Steven Bochco ~
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
~By Helen Keller ~
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.
~By Alice Munro ~
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
~By Lionel Hampton ~
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
~By Tobias Wolff ~
Memory is the thing you forget with.
~By Alexander Chase ~
Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
~By Bob Dylan ~
It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.
~By Bob Kane ~
It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.
~By Robert Creeley ~
The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
~By Penelope Lively ~
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.
~By Joshua Reynolds ~
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
~By Anthony Hecht ~
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?
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Observation is an old man's memory.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
~By Nathaniel Parker Willis ~
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
~By George Santayana ~
I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.
~By Judy Collins ~
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
~By Lewis B. Smedes ~
We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them.
~By Arto Lindsay ~
I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.
~By Clara Schumann ~
I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
~By Studs Terkel ~
You never know when you're making a memory.
~By Rickie Lee Jones ~
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
~By James Martineau ~
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.
~By Marcel Proust ~
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