Memory Quote by Oliver Sacks

What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene…

— Joshua Foer

Always remember a little thing can change everything.

— Anonymous

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.

— Elaine Dundy

My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.

— Mark Teixeira

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

My first Olympics memory was watching Haile Gebrselassie in Sydney 2000. His sprint finish to defend his title really moved me.

— Mo Farah

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from…

— John Irving

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

— Herb Caen

“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not…

— Albert Camus

I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing…

— Phoebe Stone

Once upon a time. Ah forget it.

— Anonymous

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

— Tobias Wolff