Memory Quotes

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How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands -… — Mel Torme
What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty… — Susanna Moodie
I have a poor memory for names; but I seldom remember a face. — W.C. Fields
Children, those who are unmarried should conserve their vital energy by maintaining celibacy. To turn what we gain by this in to ojas (vitality), we… — Mata Amritanandamayi
A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we… — John Ray
Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory,… — Eudora Welty
If I had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true, the box would be empty, except for the memory of… — Jim Croce
Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime. — Ani DiFranco
If drinking don't kill me, her memory will. — George Jones
Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse… — Ferdinand de Saussure
Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of… — Douglas Hofstadter
Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used. — Tony Buzan
Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas… — Socrates
Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily… — Eva Hoffman
My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you,… — Whittaker Chambers
At times the whole sky was ringed in shooting points and puckers of light gathering and falling, pulsing, fading, rhythmical as breathing. All of a… — Louise Erdrich
Is it possible for anyone in Germany, nowadays, to raise his right hand, for whatever the reason, and not be flooded by the memory of… — Walter Abish
I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence. — Penelope Lively
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively
You think you have a memory; but it has you! — John Irving

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