“What you remember, it’s real. It doesn’t matter how accurate your memory of something is, it is real to you. What you… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“The Battenberg might be mundane, but the connection to my impending emotional turmoil saved it from the memory recycle bin.” — Keith A. Pearson Copy Share Image
These are the ruins of our memories, which loom in our minds like the Parthenon, even as they are decayed and weathered… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I think that's the greatest gift one can have: point of view. You know? I've come to believe that if you have… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and above all, that of Latin America,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is… — Denis Norden Copy Share Image
People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is an outcome of a recursively comparative memory in which previous self-nonself categorizations are continually related to ongoing present perceptual categorizations… — Edelman Gerald Copy Share Image
“the pairing of opposite physical sensations, emotions, and so on harmonizes the opposite hemispheres of the brain and helps in balancing our… — Julie T. Lusk Copy Share Image
“My next memory is of waking up, it then being dark outside, and my brother and sister fast asleep on the couch.… — Shane Levene Copy Share Image
“To forget the past so easily seems scarcely loyal to oneself. I am so selfishly absorbed in my present self that I… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
So I studied a lot with the balloon, and in learning how to sing with other musicians and keep in time -… — Mandy Harvey Copy Share Image
What is memory but the repository of things doomed to be forgotten, so you must have History. You must have labor to… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“...it seemed to me that the entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I volunteered at a homeless shelter in preparation for 'Being Flynn,' and when I'm walking along the Bowery, that's the first thing… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
One of the negative sides of a really intense arc as a touring band is there are big gaps in your memory… — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
“When your friends are gone and you only can look at pictures, then remeber, that times and people change but that memories… — C.M Copy Share Image
My abiding childhood memory is watching my uncle perform to thousands in Madison Square Garden. He wore a white suit and came… — Little Louie Vega Copy Share Image
“You can never go back to a specific moment. That's why it's important to live in the present and not the past.… — Emily Coussons Copy Share Image
“Memories were your most intimate legacy. But if those memories were compromised in some way, would your continued existence be compromised, too?” — Holly Chamberlin Copy Share Image
“Our memories do not visit us in chronology, and the story we form by joining up the memories involves choices with the… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
Every time you recall a memory, you're basically making another copy of it and, at that same point, it is susceptible to… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“After several hours, he realized he had been so lost in remembering and mourning the past, he had wasted two miles heading… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“They say that the mind cannot remember pain; I say it barely matters, for even if the physical sensation is lost, our… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“Listen. You know what it's like when you're in a room with the light on and then suddenly the light goes out?… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
I wish that I could wake up with amnesia. and forget about the stupid little things. like the way it felt to… — Patience Copy Share Image
“By combining the visual and verbal, we set ourselves up for success when it comes to triggering the formation of long-term memories… — Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic Copy Share Image
“Know why I plant trees?" "No." "I like thinking that they'll be here long after I'm gone. All those fine memories pushing… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forget about… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
With Alzheimer's, recent memory is affected first. At the start, you count the memory loss in days, then hours - then in… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
“A blanket could be twirled in the air, like a new idea in your mind, and then either discarded or folded up… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
“Middle-aged memory [is] an instrument of torture: you reach for the fruit of memory and it vanishes, to appear when you no… — Castle Freeman Jr Copy Share Image
“Separated by so much more than distance and lifestyle, even their memories of a shared childhood have faded from their minds.” — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
“In every evocation of a childhood scene, my stepfather's face is the least detailed, the most out of focus; when I think… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“To be “happy” you must constantly bear in mind the miseries you have escaped. This would be a way for memory to… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image