Memories Quotes

Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

...Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have and stop begrudging the ones you never got to make.

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.

I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.

The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.

The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on.

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory.

Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight.

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills

The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

Common integration is only the memory of differentiation.

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.

People without memory are putty.

Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.

As much as I have films and all that sort of stuff, a lot of my memories are to do with relationships and love.

In this world of memories, there's no need for strangers. -Kenshin to Kaoru

Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.

Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.

The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.

If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it.

I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.

The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives.

I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.

A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.

One day these will just be memories that I haveso I try to enjoy it as much as possible

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge.

Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.

The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence.

The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.