Top 1200 Good Memory Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

As you may know, my motto is: "All memory is fiction." It could just as easily be: "All fiction is memory." Unpacked, these two statements defy the ease of logic, but offer some really important truths about narrative art, at the very least, and about memory. So I would say that all art is personal.

So many people that we met had some sort of connection to the [Olympics] games. Some story about how they volunteered there, or some sort of memory of it. It still is in the cultural memory and identity of these cities as much as it is in the physical and architectural memory. It's where these two things overlap, I think, that we're trying to explore with the photos.

A story is ultimately a memory. It's important when you're telling a story to think about why this memory is a memory. You don't remember everything in life; you just remember certain things - so, why this one?

I'm happy with the Byrds as a good memory.

Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. It's also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friend-even a friend whose name it never knew.

A good liar must have a good memory.

Short term memory is not good.

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.

Yesterday is but a memory, Tomorrow an uncharted course, So live today so it will be a memory without remorse.

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

Memory depends mainly upon myth. Some even occurs in our minds, in actuality or in fantasy; we form it in memory, molding it like clay day after day - and soon we have made out of that event a myth. We then keep the myth in memory as a guide to future similar situations.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

I have a good flavor memory.

A liar ought to have a good memory.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

Living in the present moment requires discretion toward memory. Without memory we'd have amnesia. What good would there be in that? Offer discretion and discernment for our past with a broad spectrum of forgiveness. As for our present moment, delight. And dedication to remain fully present to all the possibility.

We no longer see the evolution of the nervous system, but that of a certain individual. The role of the memory is very important but... not as important as we believe. Most of the important things that we do don't depend on memory. To hear, to see, to touch, to feel happiness and pain; these are functions which are independent of memory; it is an a priori thing. Thus, for me, what memory does is to modify that a priori thing, and this it does in a very profound way.

Bill Clinton's favorite memory is Hillary leaning down and putting contact paper in the drawers, in the chest of drawers in Chelsea's dorm room at Stanford. Favorite memory. Favorite memory! Out everything, favorite memory. Now, I would love to hear somebody in the media ask Hillary what contact paper is.

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

My memory is not that good anymore.

My memory's not too good.

Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.

Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.

My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

A great cologne can really attract a partner. Women particularly respond to smell, and they also have a good sense of memory in terms of men. I think it's very important for a man to wear a good fragrance.

Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.

Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.

When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined. Over the years, as the memory of Sophie Mol ... slowly faded, the Loss of Sophie Mol grew robust and alive. It was always there. Like a fruit in season. Every season. As permanent as a government job.

Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology.

Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them.

Memory is strange. Scientifically, it is not a mechanical means of repeating something. I can think a thousand times about when I broke my leg at the age of ten, but it is never the same thing which comes to mind when I think about it. My memory of this event has never been, in reality, anything except the memory of my last memory of that event. This is why I use the image of a palimpsest - something written over something partially erased - that is what memory is for me. It's not a film you play back in exactly the same way. It's like theater, with characters who appear from time to time.

I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another sense. I do consider memory that which allows us to think that time flows.

The memory of a good deed lives.

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.

Remembered memory is much more powerful than actually having your own memory.

I have a pretty good memory.

Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

A liar should have a good memory.

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.

Pain does not create a long-lasting memory, but the memory of luxury exerts itself for ever.

One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.

If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory into long term memory.

Sometimes I wanted to take a memory - one perfect memory - curl up in it, and go to sleep.