Memory Quotes

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

I have a great memory.

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.