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Memory Quotes
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life. He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. You get a letter from her agency embracing you into the family that says, 'It is our goal now to help you achieve your dream of being a songwriter, in John's memory.' I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food. Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart. A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever. For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment. Memory is the library of the mind. Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory. We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely. You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something. An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. Liars need good memories. Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
Observation is an old man's memory. I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be. Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem. His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing. No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch. Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can. One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself. No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard. I've a grand memory for forgetting. The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. The true art of memory is the art of attention. A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety. I learned everything from that show, so it's just a wonderful memory to me. A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show... I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing! We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.
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