Memory Quotes · Page 247

Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

— Diane Ackerman

I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.

— John Petrucci

“She was in that flagging mood when to go on living seems only to load more unmeaning moments on to your memory.”

— Elizabeth Bowen

Basketball was my thing I was always able to use to forget everything.

— Jahlil Okafor

You can't learn anything new, until you are open enough to forget everything you think you know

— James Victore

“But let us persevere in what we have resolved, before we forget.”

— Samuel Beckett

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

— Jean Paul

“Two tips for best memory; first, make a note; second one, I forgot.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

The memories that I have are mostly at our old ranch, out in Agoura. We used to go out there every Saturday.…

— Patti Davis

“Marshall wished he knew what to call her, wished he could memorialize her somehow. There was dignity in eulogies, in little ribbons…

— Aaron Dries

“Forgetting is like a great alchemy free of secrets, limpid, transforming everything to the present. In the end it makes our lives…

— César Aira

My favorite memory is, as a freshman, going to Carolina and beating them. Going over there and winning on their court. I…

— Grant Hill

“That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd…

— John Green

By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all…

— Anonymous

Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

I have really fond memories of growing up in Chicago, and I always love going back. I still have a lot of…

— Kaskade

You have to be reminded of a basic fact: intelligence belongs to the watching consciousness; memory belongs to the mind. Memory is…

— Rajneesh

All of us who grew up reading comics love the memory of sitting under an apple tree with a comic book in…

— Mark Waid

Computers are good at swift, accurate computation and at storing great masses of information. The brain, on the other hand, is notas…

— Jeremy Campbell

Every song brings back memories, like I remember where I wrote all these songs. 'Universal Heartbeat' was my apartment in New York…

— Juliana Hatfield

I'm interested in how memory and power come together in evil. These are obsessions of mine that appear throughout, like the theme…

— Jaume Cabre

“We deliberately forget because forgetting is a blessing. On both an emotional level and a spiritual level, forgetting is a natural part…

— Tim Challies

Yes, and the body has a memory. The physical carriage hauls more than its weight. The body is the threshold across which…

— Claudia Rankine

“Aristotle was convinced that a trained memory helped the development of logical thought processes.”

— Janet M. Tavakoli

“Forgiveness happens in the beat of a heart, forgetting takes a lifetime.”

— Jewel E. Ann

It's hard to let go when the memories keep pulling you back.

— Shy Boyfriend

“I don't remember anything about that summer because I existed in a lonely fog of memories, longing, and rejection.”

— Emily P. Freeman

When you do a movie, you don't know when it's going to come out. In a year, you forget about it.

— Judy Greer

A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.

— Jimmy Savile

“He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.”

— Donald Miller

I couldn't tell you my first memory of playing baseball because I just did it before I knew anything.

— Chris Sale

I have a collection of SuperSoakers. I have managed to keep most of them.

— Lonnie Johnson

“What is living? Forging memories. What is dying? Forgetting them. I never die.”

— Kaine Andrews

I have a million small memories that will sustain me through life.

— James Packer

“Memories are souvenirs of happiness and invisible scars... for a lifetime.”

— Sarvesh Murthi .D.D

As the day Snow comes I open a new white page for making memories.

— Mahdi Jawadi

My memory is not even what most peoples is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

— Warren Zevon

Trying to forget someone who hurt you so much is like trying to remember someone you never met.

— Levita Charin

We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste.

— Simon Blackburn