Memory Quotes

Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.

To be a liar, you’ve got to have a great memory, and I don’t have a memory.

The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me.

Growing up in Poland, I didn’t have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don’t have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.