Memory Quotes

It is trying to imagine, remember the story, read it, put it down, and then write sort of an outline without the book in front of you with some hope that what you like about it will be filtered and distilled out through your memory and then that will be similar to what other people like about it.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

My childhood memories reside somewhere in my subconscious part of my brain.

One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.

My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.

By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn’t need pen or paper – my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.