A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“You can shut out the memories and keep going, but you'll have to live with a heart that's healed wrong.” — Bethany Kaczmarek Copy Share Image
Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory. — Damon Galgut Copy Share Image
“Because we are linked by blood and blood is memory without language.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
But memory is an autumn leaf that murmurs a while in the wind and then is heard no more. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
One of my random skills is I have a very strong memory for dialogue and moments, and I don't know why. — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
Of the women in my childhood, I retain above all the memory of their perfumes, perfumes that lingered - filling the lift… — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
“I gaze upon the sky and see What I want myself to be; A person who was here and gone, And whose… — Omar Kiam Copy Share Image
“I suppose that having lost true love once, I never wanted to replace it with a lukewarm approximation that would only serve… — Paola Kaufmann Copy Share Image
I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be memorized for everyone. I want to stay real,endless and inchangeable for my parents, kids and their descendants.” — Alexander Zalan Copy Share Image
If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't… — Wayne Rooney Copy Share Image
PICTURES are great. They keep memories longer, fresher and so alive that one could feel almost everything it's saying by just one… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
“All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Britain, along with the U.S.A., is war weary, and after the travesty of Iraq and Afghanistan, has grave misgivings in any future… — Paul Conroy Copy Share Image
“... we absolutely mustn't forget it. We mustn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“At the kitchen table she examined the glass of ice. Each cube was rounded by room temperature, dissolving in its own remains,… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook,… — William Cowper Prime Copy Share Image
“Someday she’d remember, she swore. Someday she’d know his name. Someday she’d know hers. And someday, she’d know why: why he haunted… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
“A lifetime of memories does not provide empirical proof of the value of living. No one memory has a quantifiable value to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Stored in everyone's memory are past experiences of terror. By reminding you of those feelings, fear is trying to protect you from… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
