I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
~By Iggy Pop ~
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
~By Tobias Wolff ~
No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
~By Louis L'Amour ~
Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people.
~By Richard Leakey ~
You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.
~By Franklin P. Jones ~
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
~By Will Durant ~
A good memory is needed after one has lied.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
Memory is more indelible than ink.
~By Anita Loos ~
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
~By Maurice Baring ~
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 ~
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 ~
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
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 ~
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.
~By James Herriot ~
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 ~
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
~By Candice Bergen ~
In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.
~By Edith Stein ~
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
~By Martin Farquhar Tupper ~
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.
~By Adela Florence Nicolson ~
Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
~By Thomas More ~
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 ~
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
~By Muddy Waters ~
After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
~By Bob Woodward ~
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 is like a cat scratching my heart.
~By Marina Oswald ~
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
~By Ingrid Bergman ~
Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.
~By Antoine Rivarol ~
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
~By Thomas Beecham ~
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 industry's memory is quite short, it's true.
~By Diane Lane ~
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
~By Edward Levi ~
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
~By Jessamyn West ~
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 ~
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
~By Rebecca West ~
Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
~By Alfred de Vigny ~
There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.
~By Peter Davison ~
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
A liar should have a good memory.
~By Quintilian ~
Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
~By Bob Dylan ~
His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected.
~By Robert Welch ~
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
~By Augusto Roa Bastos ~
Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.
~By Sandra Cisneros ~
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
Memory is the thing you forget with.
~By Alexander Chase ~
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
~By A. E. Housman ~
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 ~
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.
~By Tad Williams ~
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 ~
An angel has no memory.
~By Terry Southern ~
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
~By Franklin P. Adams ~
And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.
~By William Peter Blatty ~
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time.
~By George Sutherland ~
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
~By Cliff Fadiman ~
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
~By Francis Bacon ~
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.
~By Janet Jackson ~
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
~By Denis Diderot ~
The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.
~By George Savile ~
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
~By Washington Irving ~
Your body has such a memory.
~By Kristanna Loken ~
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.
~By Jonathan Lethem ~
A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.
~By Robert Emmet ~
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
~By Alexander Solzhenitsyn ~
You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.
~By Bernhard Langer ~
Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.
~By Anthony Bourdain ~
It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory.
~By Rafael Palmeiro ~
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
~By Kazuo Ishiguro ~
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
~By Edgar Degas ~
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
~By James M. Barrie ~
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
~By Audrey Hepburn ~
If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
~By A. E. Housman ~
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
~By Grandma Moses ~
Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.
~By John Cameron ~
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 ~
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
~By Doug Larson ~
You have to have a short memory as a closer.
~By Frank Robinson ~
The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
~By Augusto Roa Bastos ~
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
~By Malcom X ~
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
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 ~
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
~By Marcel Proust ~
We can invent only with memory.
~By Alphonse Karr ~
Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.
~By Gene Fowler ~
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
~By Edwin Markham ~
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
~By Aeschylus ~
I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.
~By Edward Everett ~
The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.
~By Mitch Gaylord ~
Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.
~By Richard Schickel ~
That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency.
~By Mary McAleese ~
Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.
~By Pierre Loti ~
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
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.
~By Morris Hite ~
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