Memory Quotes

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I used to believe having a good memory meant being able to remember everything in perfect detail. Now I believe having a good memory means… — Amber Dermont
For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career.Â As soon as I… — Andre Kertesz
Perfume is a story in odors, sometimes a poetry of memory — Jean-Claude Ellena
There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory. — Pat Conroy
My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying a… — David Suzuki
Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words. — Audrey Niffenegger
I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the… — John Henry Carver
On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and… — Immanuel Velikovsky
My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a… — Immanuel Velikovsky
Memory is the place where our vanished days secretly gather. ... The past seems to be gone and absent. Yet the grooves in the mind… — John O'Donohue
Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting… — Bodhidharma
Breathing affects your respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, gastrointestinal, muscular, and psychic systems, and also has a general affect on your sleep, memory, ability to concentrate, and… — Donna Farhi
You are not your body; you are not your brain, not even your mind. You are Spirit. All you have to do is reawaken to… — Brian Weiss
Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure. — Tobsha Learner
The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now… — Frederick Lenz
Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the lyrics I wrote… — Ryan Adams
I have a very strong visual memory of the first time I made him laugh. That was remarkable. I was like, "Oh, God, I just… — Harry Shearer
Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to just speak with.… — Alec Soth
I'm thinking about anything and everything. I'm making stuff up in my head, I'm using sense memory. Sometimes when it doesn't come and you've got… — Vera Farmiga

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