Memory Quotes

• Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction.

  

  Amishi Jha
  • Information
  • Memory
  • Manipulate

• You will find that your taste buds have a memory of about 3 weeks.

  

  Neal Barnard
  • Memory
  • Taste
  • Buds

• I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Time
  • Bad
  • I Feel Like

• And if we never slept together or otherwise 'realized' our relationship, I would leave Spain with this gorgeous possibility intact, and in my memory could always ponder the relationship I might have had in the flattering light of the subjunctive.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Relationship
  • Flattering
  • Spain

• He held her face in his hands, and stared into her eyes, and said that she was his for only a while anyway, and that it wasn’t his going to Cranwell that would split them up. “You’re destined for greater things, Susannah Hammond. I see it in you. You’re so clever, so bright. So beautiful. So special. I’m not any of those things. Except when I’m flying, maybe. Down here, I’m ordinary. I’m going to be just a memory for you. A sweet one, I hope. Happy. But just a part of your past. I might be good enough for now, but I’m not good enough forever. Not for you.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Forever
  • Hands
  • I Hope

• I remember us being so excited that we even had the opportunity to go in the studio and do another record and have a second chance at it, that’s my most fond memory.

  

  Terry Ellis En Vogue
  • Memory
  • Record
  • Studio

• The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were only a thin slice among contiguous impressions which formed our life at that time; the memory of a certain image is but regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Space
  • Convenience
  • Avenues

• I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Up
  • Joy
  • Gold

• I know this music from memory, not from the music.

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • Music
  • Memory

• That's what this play really is about, ... It's about love and how we live on in memory.

  

  Arthur Laurents
  • Live
  • Love
  • Play

• As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

  

  Norman Wisdom
  • Remember
  • Memory
  • Older

• On 'Hairless Toys,' I've tried to create an ambiguous character to go with an ambiguous record. She's anything but rock n' roll - she's so not rock n' roll that, in a twisted way, she's kind of radical. She's like someone from my memory, almost like my mother, and she's lost in some space-time between the 1960s and the late '80s.

  

  Róisín Murphy
  • Mother
  • Space
  • Record

• In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Memory
  • Differences
  • Effaced

• There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.

  

  Cassandra Wilson
  • House
  • Train
  • Whistle

• You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Education
  • Childhood
  • Memory

• They would think she was savoring the taste (blueberries, cinnamon, cream-excellent), but she was actually savoring the whole morning, trying to catch it, pin it down, keep it safe before all those precious moments became yet another memory.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Trying
  • She
  • Morning

• Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Young
  • Memory
  • Monger

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

  

  Kiersten White
  • Memory

• Each, in its own way, was unforgettable. It would be difficult to - Rome! By all means, Rome. I will cherish my visit here in memory as long as I live.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Difficult
  • Memory
  • Rome

• It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Different
  • Single
  • Present

• Blessed be the memory of him who gave the world this immortal game.

  

  Alfred George Gardiner
  • Game
  • Memory
  • Immortal

• Common integration is only the memory of differentiation... The different artifices by which integration is effected, are changes, not from the known to the unknown, but from forms in which memory does not serve us to those in which it does.

  

  Augustus De Morgan
  • Memory
  • Integration
  • Differentiation

• Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music, so I wanted to create soundscapes that are evocative of places that only exist in your head - that's where the fun, psychedelic stuff happens anyway.

  

  Alan Palomo
  • Memory
  • Create
  • Head

• Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Never
  • Renew
  • Glean

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