I think 90% of my ideas evaporate because I have a terrible memory and because I seem to be committed to not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help… — Alain-Rene Lesage Copy Share Image
My main memory of 'Soft Sounds' was that I was so convinced that 'Psychopomp' was this fluke - I had this real… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“But then you stop nursing and the terrible truth descends: Your good brain is never coming back. You’ve traded vocabulary, lucidity, and… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same… — John Slattery Copy Share Image
“For long after guilty memories fade, the urge for penance lingers: strong and blind as the will to drink rain and grope… — Sean Stewart Copy Share Image
“And with a relentlessness that comes from the world's depths, with a persistence that strikes the keys metaphysically, the scales of a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“It is not surprising that music can incite a broad range of emotions, including passion, serenity, and fear. Most of us can… — Patricia Wolfe Copy Share Image
“This evening, which I have tried to spirit away, is a strange burden to me. While time moves on, while the day… — Henri Alain-Fournier Copy Share Image
“Her father had once told her that water has a memory; that every rock, every stone, every grain of muddy sediment leaves… — Hazel Gaynor Copy Share Image
“Then he remembered his wedding, the old times, the first pregnancy of his wife; he, too, had been very happy the day… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“You carried your infant daughter in one arm, and walked with me, a child six years of age, tired, trudging beside you.… — Parnaz Foroutan Copy Share Image
“It kind of scares me though, to keep wearing it every day like I do. What happens when I run out of… — Keary Taylor Copy Share Image
“Amnesia, which is a loss of memory, is a symptom of many different trauma and/or dissociative disorders, including PTSD, Dissociative Fugue, Dissociative… — Ruth A. Lanius Copy Share Image
“Past events leave traces in the memory like an ax chopping wood. Chips fly; they remain where they fall even after the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People have a tendency of filtering their memories – exaggerate the positives and downplay their weaknesses and faults. Self-preservation will be another… — Alexis Lawrence Copy Share Image
“When our thoughts are stammering in our mind, and memorial failure dumbs down our passion for life, a deep dive in the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Some of my fondest memories are going to camps and seeing the women that I saw on TV, them putting me through… — Kelsey Plum Copy Share Image
I have a vivid memory of loving Keith Hernandez, the first baseman for the '86 Mets. I grew up in Queens, so… — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
Thoughts race, as if, in a mind devoid of memory, each idea has too much space to grow and move, to collide… — S.J. Watson Copy Share Image
I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past:… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It's funny how, as we get older, what become our fondest memories are not necessarily the happiest times of our lives but… — Michael McDonald Copy Share Image
“It is strange, but living is constructing memories. Right now, here in front of the sea, I know that I am creating… — Ernesto Sabato Copy Share Image
“I just wish the memories would fade. I wish the songs wouldn’t bring tears. And, I wish that his name would stop… — Melissa Brown Copy Share Image
The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish.… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Like any black kid on a Sunday, your mom's cleaning the house to music. So that was, like, my very first memory.… — Giveon Copy Share Image
“Harold Hill: You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I… — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
If you don't have to lie, you don't have to remember anything. You can just go. That's really where I'm at. It's… — Asher Roth Copy Share Image
“The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The only thing we got to keep were our memories, and now I was about to take those from him, too. "Close… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“I remember that year as well as he does, though I was really young then and he is really old now. So… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this… — Josh Peck Copy Share Image
I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords… — Earl Hines Copy Share Image
How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life,… — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
