I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
Aleister Crowley
GoodMemoryUnderstandBeingDid
Memory is revisionist, you know. 'The Houston Kid' was based on true things that happened. But I know - from writing a memoir that I've been working on for awhile - that reconstructing memory is revisionism.
Rodney Crowell
MemoryWritingYouKnowTrueKid
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.
Kurt Cobain
GoodTimeMemorySelf-RespectAlong
As an actor, you can't play a flashback; you can't play someone's memory. You just have to play each circumstance as if it was real and understand that person's point of view.
O. T. Fagbenle
MemoryViewSomeoneYouPersonPlay
Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films, and I want to see whether '3 Idiots' will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country... Hopefully, we'll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films.
Boman Irani
GreatMemoryCountryKnowMovies
Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.
Will Self
MemoryYouInformationLoseThree
My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop for Larry King's TV show. There's an 'I-want-to-do-all-things-at-once' kind of theme to it.
Ronan Farrow
MemoryKingWorldFamousLightsMap
After 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.
Kim Edwards
DaughterMyselfMemorySpaceWorld
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar Wilde
LiveHopeMemoryOnlyBillsPaying
A day will come when other Israelis will be launched into space in the service of science and progress. For them and for us, Ilan Ramon will always be a source of inspiration as Israel's space pioneer, and his memory will be engraved in our hearts forever.
Ariel Sharon
ScienceServiceDayProgressMemory
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
Tennessee Williams
MusicMemoryEverythingHappenSeems
I have a memory of my mother kneeling in front of a cabinet in our home, tenderly cradling her wedding china. We never used the plates; she died in her 40s without ever letting herself enjoy these gorgeous pieces. I told myself that I would use my precious items.
Roma Downey
MotherHomeMyselfMemoryWedding
I have a photographic memory.
Kevin Kwan
MemoryPhotographic
My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.
Natasha Trethewey
HistoryI AmMemoryPeopleLanguage
The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.
Antony Beevor
WarMemoryWorldDangerousOver
At 11, I went to Misha's school for two summers. So when I wasn't in that school, I was taking classes at David Howard or Robert Denver's studios - kind of legendary places - and there was one summer where Alexander Godunov sort of took me under his wing; the memory's a little murky, but I felt as if I was his project for those weeks.
Sascha Radetsky
SchoolMemoryMeSummerKindPlaces
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
Rupert Sheldrake
NaturePastNew YorkMemoryLiving
Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.
Junot Diaz
FamilyMemoryFeelYouGoAnything
I might have created the phrase 'memory tools', but people have always found talismans to help them meditate into a state of hypnosis where they can access their past lives.
M. J. Rose
PastMemoryPeopleToolsHelpWhere
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
Anthony Hecht
GoodPoetryMemoryLibraryKnowWho
No man surely has so short a memory as the American.
Rebecca Harding Davis
ManMemoryAmericanShortSurely
That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency.
Mary McAleese
TimePastMemorySharingLivingOut
Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.
Janet Fitch
MemoryLandscapeDimensionAny
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
Lactantius
AdversityAgeOld AgeMemoryYouth
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