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Memory Quotes

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good Memory Not Good Enough Enough

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The order in the universe seemed miraculous.

Memory Universe Table Excitement Saw

I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory.

Ezra Taft Benson

Women Children Food Memory People

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Life Good Childhood Memory Remember

I've had my nose in a book my whole life. I never thought it would be useful, but it is now. What's really nice is that I don't have a photographic memory, so words get blurred, thoughts get mixed up, and they come out as something new.

Life Words Memory Thoughts Book New

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Beauty Knowledge Memory Ideas Human

Attention to detail - Sherlock certainly has that, and my memory is pretty good - but not as good as his.

Jonny Lee Miller

Good Memory Detail Attention Pretty

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

Life Imagination Memory Possible Our

Mr. Trump's memory is fantastic. I've never come across a situation that Mr. Trump has said something that is not accurate.

Memory Situation Said Never Come

I don't know if it's harder but when you're playing a real person you want to honor their memory - even if they're a criminal or someone that the public loathed. That can be challenging.

Memory Honor Someone You Person

I don't remember the very first animation I saw, but the one that stays deepest in my memory is definitely 'Astro Boy.'

Memory Remember Boy First Deepest

I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.

Home Memory Theatre Game Design

I used to come to the gay pride parades in New York. I've been to a few down in Miami Beach, if memory serves.

Beach New York Memory Pride Miami

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Life Day I Am Memory Husband Know

I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.

Work Good Memory People Worry Back

Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns - and forever believing that such patterns are to be found.

Faith Past Memory Believing Events

The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.

Memory Short True Industry Quite

When someone is looking down, they're saying no. When they're looking up, they're looking to their brain for memory. When they look to the left, they're looking for a lie or something they memorized. When they look to the right, they're feeling sorry - they don't want to answer.

Lie Memory Brain Sorry Saying Look

Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule.

Past Memory Schedule Own Arriving

The 'politics of memory' policy appears to work largely by insinuation.

Work Politics Memory Policy Appears

I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

Good Today Great Memory I Can May

Rhyme is an attempt to reassemble and reaffirm the possibility of paradise. There is a wholeness, a serenity, in sounds coupling to form a memory.

Memory Serenity Paradise Attempt

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

Life Memory My Life Remembrance

We can invent only with memory.

Memory Only Invent

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