Memory Quotes

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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I'd have done… — Gail Collins
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most… — Joseph Conrad
I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and… — Billy Corgan
A good memory is needed after one has lied. — Pierre Corneille
The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your… — Bill Cosby
I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me. — Noel Coward
It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as… — Leonardo da Vinci
I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory. — Sloane Crosley
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner. — Aleister Crowley
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the… — George William Curtis
I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's… — Louis C. K.
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs. — Leonardo da Vinci
I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that… — Roald Dahl
I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as… — Claire Danes
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory.… — Edgar Degas
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. — John Dewey
Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative… — Junot Diaz
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. — Denis Diderot
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently… — Denis Diderot

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