Memory Quotes · Page 195

I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.

— Alfred Hitchcock

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

— P. G. Wodehouse

Sadness is always the legacy of the past; regrets are pains of the memory

— Anonymous

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

— William Faulkner

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.

— John Berger

A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.

— Alfred de Musset

I really learn from something that really inspires me and it becomes something that I remember.

— Alexander Wang

I will never play in England again, but I still actually look back with fond memories at some moments.

— Diego Forlan

Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a…

— Joshua Foer

I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try…

— Michael Chabon

My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the…

— David Miliband

“For the human memory is short, and even when we write it in stone we quickly forget and the stones crumble and…

— Stant Litore

“If you want to be able to recall everything and anything in detail, then you need to be strong enough to feel…

— Toba Beta

The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that…

— H. Rider Haggard

I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of…

— Xenophon

“You used to get so excited about music and novels. It was as if the world had suddenly transformed. I liked you…

— Genki Kawamura

“All these years, whenever I thought of him, I'd think either of B. or of our last days in Rome, the whole…

— André Aciman

When you bounce your eyes away from a sexual image, immediately pull from your memory a pure image. Maybe a wedding picture,…

— Steve Arterburn

“Someone once told me that your life begins at your earliest memory. If that is true, then my life began only a…

— John Lee

“Such a "match," even if identified, would only allow me the illusion of communication and you the illusion of understanding. I could…

— Monique Truong

“The autumn leaves remind me of my own faded memories. The leaves hold their own precious stories, which drift about in the…

— Susan L. Marshall

Franschhoek Valley was, in recent memory, a simple place with some notable vineyards and two or three streets of Victorian cottages and…

— Justin Cartwright

“In exact parallel to regressing people so they supposedly retrieve forgotten memories of ‘past lives’, Frankel notes that therapists can as readily…

— Carl Sagan

“It’s a cool morning, raining out, and you’re a thirty-eight-year-old woman who can’t remember a thing about her life. A strange amnesia,…

— Hope Nicholson

Women have to remember what's good for them is not good for every woman.

— Katya Zamolodchikova

The best childhoom memory is that when u fall asleep on cough and the next morning u wake up in ur beed

— LS

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

— George Savile

I don't believe in false memories, like I don't believe in false songs.

— John Lydon

“Being able to forget something or someone is being true to yourself”

— Mari Mar P. Manuel

“When you least expect to recall something, a memory can pop up like an uninvited guest on your doorstep.”

— Lesley Kagen

“There’s a poem about onions,” she said. “It’s about how memory is like an onion—it makes you cry.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

Be careful of your actions. You never know when youre creating a memory.

— Anonymous

“The past is a hotel. You can visit any time; enjoy the view. But you can't live there. The cost is to…

— B.J. Neblett

“Her memory like a skipping record, bumping continually up against the scratch.”

— Kristen Roupenian

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

— Michel de Montaigne

My worst habit? Overthinking. Creating the worse scenarios in my mind and replaying bad memories.

— Anonymous

Everything is in our cellular level. My mom's is definitely in my cellular memory.

— Natasha Gregson Wagner

“They say to forget it and just let it go But that gets me confused ‘Cause the past is all I know”

— Elaine Allen

“One of the oddest things in life I think is the things one remembers.”

— Agatha Christie

I use a lot of sense memory and, well, I can't really avoid getting into character.

— Alexandra Daddario