Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
RelationshipMemoryMeWaveTide
It looks like the writer is telling you a story. What the writer is actually doing, however, is using words to evoke a series of micromemories from your own experience that inmix, join, and connect in your mind in an order the writer controls, so that, in effect, you have a sustained memory of something that never happened to you.
Samuel R. Delany
ExperienceWordsMemoryMindStory
There's no question that our children's attention and memory is changing when they are reading too long, too much, too early on digital screens.
Maryanne Wolf
ChildrenMemoryReadingAttention
I think 90% of my ideas evaporate because I have a terrible memory and because I seem to be committed to not scribble anything down. As soon as I write it down, my mind rejects it.
Junot Diaz
MemoryMindIdeasThinkDownWrite
In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
M. J. Rose
MemoryToolsLostNowToolAncient
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
Augusto Roa Bastos
WordsMemoryBehindYourHappens
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
Rebecca West
LifePowerMemoryPersonalOver
We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory.
Mary McAleese
MemoryCountryVibrantHumbling
You don't have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory.
Janet Jackson
PainMemoryYouHoldOnto
As singers, we're always taught to sing forward and place everything in the front of our resonating chambers. Donna Summer always sang in that space and had it naturally. Her muscle memory, the way she was built - she was a natural singer.
LaChanze
MemorySpaceForwardPlaceSummer
My memory's pretty much gone.
Jim McMahon
MemoryPrettyGoneMuch
Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.
Aubrey de Vere
MemoryFeetWeedsNakedWidow
Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
Randy Newman
GodMemoryThank GodLanePotholes
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
Miguel de Unamuno
MemoryUnderstandingAuthorityRather
The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.'
James Fenton
TodayPoetryMemoryFreeVoiceYou
My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
Karl Ove Knausgard
MemoryPeopleMeRememberLetters
Sure I do a lot of jokes about Anne Frank. But when you do those jokes, it makes people remember what happened to her. That process of bringing her story back doesn't have to be a serious one. What I say is all nonsense, but it helps to keep her memory alive.
Joan Rivers
MemoryPeopleStoryProcessRemember
I'm more verbal and not as private as I was as a kid. I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you're working with, how the other actor works.
Alia Shawkat
JobMemoryPeopleYouActorKid
The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.
Paul Engle
MotherMemoryBedChristmasHand
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
Michel de Montaigne
MemoryUnderstandingLaborLeave
It was one of the great pleasures of my life to donate the entire sum of the Nobel Prize, in memory of my sister Ruth Blobel, to the restoration of Dresden.
Gunter Blobel
LifeGreatMemorySisterMy Life
The funniest memory that I can recall about my school days has to be one incident that involved unfinished homework for numerous days. I didn't do any of my homework for days and days at a stretch, and kept stalling my teacher that I was extremely unwell and was under heavy medication.
Karan Patel
TeacherSchoolMemoryHomeworkI Can
My earliest vivid memory would be my Nigerian mother. She would wrap me on her back. I remember being on her back a lot. It felt like a ride, like I was riding a dinosaur; going everywhere and seeing everything.
John Boyega
MotherRideMemoryMeRememberBack
Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
Alfred de Vigny
GoodMemoryEvilFactsServeUse
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