Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
Tobias Wolff
FunnyMemoryControlProblemYou
I have a very distinct memory of 'ExciteBike' and making my own courses. I had an obsession with that game.
AJ Lee
MemoryGameMy OwnObsessionOwn
When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory as if I had thought of it myself. It was a clear sign that I wanted to be involved in writing, even if it was just pretend at that point.
Jonathan Dee
FatherMyselfMemoryWritingBook
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
Elie Wiesel
FutureCultureMemorySocietyWould
I read academic books on courtesan culture at the turn-of-the century in Shanghai such as Gail Hershatter's 'The Gender of Memory'. The diaries were mostly in the form of letters from courtesans to a lover who had disappeared or taken their savings.
Amy Tan
CultureMemoryGenderLettersBooks
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
Timothy Leary
MemoryForgetThreeSideLong-Term
Studies of social games, puzzle games, and brain-training games have shown they have little effect on the brain despite often being marketed as improving memory and reaction speeds.
Daphne Bavelier
MemoryBrainPuzzleGamesReaction
I have a memory problem. My family and friends call me Lady Ghajini.
Divyanka Tripathi
FamilyMemoryMeFriendsProblem
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
David Halberstam
TruthMemoryWantThanAboutLess
I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison's 'Moondance.'
Steve Bisley
GoodTimeLightMemoryRemember
You never know when you're making a memory.
Rickie Lee Jones
MemoryYouKnowNeverMaking
We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.
Daniel Kahneman
MemoryStoryOutTellExperiences
All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.
Derek Walcott
ImaginationEffortMemoryFogMind
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
BestMemoryPeopleResilienceDesire
When a nanotech company matures and becomes a real business, it becomes something else. It becomes a biotech company or a cleantech company or a memory chip company. Nanotechnology has fueled the core innovations in electronics and energy.
Steve Jurvetson
BusinessMemoryEnergyCompanyReal
Today, we live in a time of threats like few others in recent memory. During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices. We must resist that temptation. No one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country.
Nikki Haley
WorkLoveLiveTodayTimeMemory
It was quite difficult to find a place to do what we wanted, namely to study the neurological basis of behaviour and especially learning and memory, which we were particularly interested in.
Edvard Moser
LearningMemoryFindPlaceDifficult
A fragrance that matches the personality of the man or woman who wears it is an integral part of the memory that you have of him or her. It goes without saying that it's a formidable weapon of seduction.
Dree Hemingway
PersonalityWomanManMemorySaying
About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.
David Rakoff
GoodMemoryMeAlwaysGood Memory
Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.
Stephen Tobolowsky
MemoryBrainForwardMeaningYou
Celebrate your child's achievement, then rotate it when the next mini-masterpiece comes along. Then chuck the old picture. Don't worry that you're throwing away a memory. Your children will remember your praise more than they will remember the picture with macaroni and glitter glued on it.
Niecy Nash
ChildrenAchievementMemoryChild
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Benjamin Disraeli
FaithGreatArtQualityManMemory
I have a terrible memory.
Dorothy Allison
MemoryTerrible
My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer.
Dave Morris
HomeMemoryLibraryFirstHammer
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