Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
~By Gilbert Parker ~
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 ~
We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory.
~By Mary McAleese ~
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 ~
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.
~By Rupert Sheldrake ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every man's memory is his private literature.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
~By Noel Coward ~
On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers.
~By Immanuel Velikovsky ~
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
We can invent only with memory.
~By Alphonse Karr ~
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
~By Anatole France ~
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 ~
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.
~By Alice Meynell ~
You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.
~By Bernhard Langer ~
The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.
~By Marina Oswald ~
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
~By Denis Diderot ~
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.
~By Jorge Luis Borges ~
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.
~By John Henry Carver ~
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
~By Studs Terkel ~
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
~By Robert Frost ~
Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.
~By Gregg Easterbrook ~
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 ~
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
~By James M. Barrie ~
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
~By E. Joseph Cossman ~
I've never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure there's enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures.
~By Carrie Underwood ~
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
~By John Irving ~
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
~By Lord Acton ~
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
~By Lionel Hampton ~
Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.
~By Jeffrey Bernard ~
What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.
~By John Hersey ~
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
~By John Henry Newman ~
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
~By William Faulkner ~
A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
~By Rebecca West ~
A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.
~By Henry Chadwick ~
It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory.
~By Rafael Palmeiro ~
Your body has such a memory.
~By Kristanna Loken ~
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 ~
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
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 ~
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
~By Francis Bacon ~
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 ~
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.
~By Cassandra Wilson ~
We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.
~By Henri Cartier-Bresson ~
I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
~By Muddy Waters ~
They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.
~By Jack Kilby ~
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 ~
I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.
~By Yvonne Strahovski ~
The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.
~By Michel Patini ~
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 ~
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
~By Miguel de Unamuno ~
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.
~By John Leonard ~
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 ~
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
~By William Gibson ~
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 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 ~
We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.
~By Kenneth Scott Latourette ~
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
~By William Morris ~
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.
~By Kay Boyle ~
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 ~
One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
~By Frank Moore Colby ~
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
~By Franklin P. Adams ~
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
~By William Godwin ~
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.
~By Shmuel Y. Agnon ~
Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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 ~
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
~By Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~
A good memory is needed after one has lied.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
America is stronger than ever. We will forever remember those we lost on September 11, 2001. In honoring their memory, we will remain true to our commitment to freedom and democracy.
~By Evan Bayh ~
Saturday night is when my hair would be fixed up and that was my memory.
~By Jenifer Lewis ~
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 ~
Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
~By Carl Paladino ~
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
~By George Herbert ~
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
~By Ethel Barrymore ~
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 ~
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
~By Andre Breton ~
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.
~By Richard Burton ~
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 ~
She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.
~By Frank Deford ~
I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
~By Ken Kesey ~
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
~By Denis Diderot ~
Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.
~By Gene Fowler ~
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
~By Martin Farquhar Tupper ~
The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
~By Charles R. Swindoll ~
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
~By John Dewey ~
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.
~By Krzysztof Kieslowski ~
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.
~By Don Bluth ~
Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.
~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~
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