Memory Quotes

• Sometimes it's a negative because I still have a memory of some of the things I could do... when I still had two arms.

  

  Rick Savage Def Leppard
  • Memory
  • Negative

• Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day remarkable enough in many ways to remain in the memory. In either case, for now, for most people, it is a blank sheet of paper.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Beginning
  • Memory
  • Paper

• It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Memory
  • Imagined

• Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.

  

  John Calvin
  • Prayer
  • Memory
  • Hours

• I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head.

  

  Bono U2
  • Know
  • Memory
  • Melody

• Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.

  

  Susumu Tonegawa
  • Process
  • Memory
  • Recorder

• It was when I was on the set of Dead Poets Society.There was actor,his name was Norman Lloyd. One day he took us all aside and said, "You guys don't even understand what a powerful experience you're having. You don't really understand what a gift this is." We were going, "What does he mean?" It was that really wonderful opportunities aren't to be taken for granted. I often found that it had embedded itself in my memory.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Experience
  • Actors
  • Gift

• Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words will always prevent writers from reading their work as an ordinary reader would.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Work
  • Stories
  • Readers

• You never know when you're making a memory.

  

  Rickie Lee Jones
  • Memory
  • Making

• The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Mind
  • Ideas
  • Memory

• I used to believe having a good memory meant being able to remember everything in perfect detail. Now I believe having a good memory means being able to selectively forget. It's not what I'll remember, it's what I'll forget that matters.

  

  Amber Dermont
  • Forget
  • Memory
  • Matters

• Hindsight is a beautiful thing, mage. The past is for the memory, the present is for the mind.

  

  Ben Galley
  • Mind
  • Present
  • Memory

• Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.

  

  Alexandre Dumas-fils
  • Fate
  • Memory
  • Paradise

• Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

  

  Georges Duhamel
  • Trust
  • Memory
  • Holes

• There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Remember
  • Child
  • Memory

• I was back on track, raring to go and then the insomnia kicked in. When you don't sleep, your faculties are not as sharp as they would normally be. My memory has been affected, I'm not as mentally agile as I would be if I were sleeping properly. I can't work because to act you need to be able to learn your lines and I can't do that at the moment. Insomnia is awful. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

  

  Emily Lloyd
  • Sleep
  • Learn
  • Enemy

• I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Hope
  • Learned
  • Lesson

• It's only a dream Just a memory without anywhere to stay

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Dream
  • Memory

• All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook, all day on lake or river, while he takes his sport, he thinks. All the long evenings in camp, or cottage, or inn, he tells stories of his own life, hears stories of his friend's lives, and if alone calls up the magic of memory.

  

  William Cowper Prime
  • Magic
  • Stories
  • River

• The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Truth
  • Advance
  • Sensation

• There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man -- so far as it is possible for any of us to be wise -- unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that ultimate stage must be preceded.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Wise
  • Regret
  • Stage

• The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."

  

  Errol Morris
  • Photography
  • Mirror
  • Memory

• You see heaven isn't some place that we go to when we die. It's that split second in life where you actually feel alive, and until the end of time, we chase the memory of that, hoping the future holds something better than the past.

  

  Eyedea
  • Heaven
  • Better
  • Hoping

• Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • History
  • Memory
  • Collective

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