My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'
Gayle King
FamilyFriendTimeWordsMemory
People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how many pirouettes I did. They don't remember me for that. They remember me and any other dancer because something touched them inside. It's an indelible memory on the heart and in the mind.
Judith Jamison
HeartMemoryPeopleMindMeLegs
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
Grandma Moses
TodayHopeHistoryDayPastMemory
Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
Dana Goodyear
MemoryRealityHelpCookiesFirst
When the enemies' land force is once conquered and expelled from the continent, our Marine will rise as if by enchantment and become, within the memory of persons now living, the wonder and envy of the world.
John Paul Jones
MemoryWorldEnvyWonderNowLiving
Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you just described the thing you remember most about it? Doubtful. Narrative is a necessary cement, but it disappears from memory.
Peter Greenaway
MemoryFamousRememberYouSayTry
I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life.
Israel Horovitz
LifeMemoryWorking-ClassResponse
What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity.
Joshua Foer
GreatCreativityMemoryMindFly
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George Santayana
ChildrenExperienceMemoryParents
In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.
Edith Stein
GodMemoryLovingEmbraceImage
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
John Leonard
PainMemoryMindMovingNightSmall
Any tragic memory I have I also think is really funny. On any given day, I can think about how horrible something is and also how ridiculous and over-the-top it is.
Perfume Genius
FunnyDayMemoryThinkI CanHow
We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest.
Frank Luntz
MemoryRestWantHearingOnlyHear
Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.
MemoryNeverDialogueTakeNotes
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
Franklin Pierce Adams
GoodMemoryGood Old DaysBadMore
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
Edgar Degas
ImaginationMemoryBetterCopyNow
Most of what we know about human life we know from asking people to remember the past, and as we know, hindsight is anything but 20/20. We forget vast amounts of what happens to us in life, and sometimes memory is downright creative.
Robert J. Waldinger
LifePastCreativeMemoryPeople
Great actors are people who just meld into the part without calling attention to the fact that they are so-and-so doing this part. They may never become huge stars, but will always, in memory, stay respected actors.
Shekhar Kapur
StarsGreatMemoryPeopleDoing
There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.
Francesco Guicciardini
MemoryNothingFleetingBenefits
One of my random skills is I have a very strong memory for dialogue and moments, and I don't know why.
Jay Chandrasekhar
MemoryRandomStrongMomentsKnow
Long-term memory involves enduring changes that result from the growth of new synaptic connections.
Eric Kandel
GrowthMemoryConnectionsResultNew
I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
Earl Hines
MemoryMindThinkLongPlayRight
It's not that we simply get old, and memory starts to go, and sleep starts to deteriorate. But those two things actually are significantly interrelated.
Matthew Walker
SleepMemoryGoOldTwoThings
I was ecstatic when we won - to host the Olympics is one of the biggest opportunities in living memory. It will help change the lives of young people and transform east London.
Sebastian Coe
ChangeMemoryPeopleOpportunities
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