Quotes About Memorization

Sydney and I made so many pictures together we were becoming Abbott and Costello, so we broke up. You know Greenstreet was a comedian before he played 'The Maltese Falcon' and in that picture his dialogue consisted of seven pages in a row which he memorized weeks ahead.

The ministerial students were the worst—they were maybe one-third to one-half of each class, and this was their trade school. They came to learn the right words, all the proper formulae ... which they wrote down and memorized from the lectures of their profs.

Life had made the plot over and over again, to the extent that I knew it by heart.

I kept on going over and over the list in my head. I memorized it the same way I had memorized the list of ten things about my mama. I memorized it so if I didn't find him, I would have some part

The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart.

All his faults observ'd,Set in a notebook, learn'd, and conn'd by rote.

The cold is a mnemonic device.

Poetry became his favorite genre; he memorized poetic lyrics and recited them often. For him, poetry organized and crystalized experience as no other type of language did.

Memorizing and regurgitating are not science. Real science is a constant investigation of the unknown.

Write down important formulas, facts, definitions, and/or keywords in the margin first so you won't worry about

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

I watched the proceedings from across the room while Cleopatra babbled at me. She was pretty drunk. Finally, I got what she was burbling: "Wild Party." You know, the thing in verse about a party that's quite a ball itself. She must have spent a lot of lonely nights memorizing that one.

You're going to die in your best friend's arms. And you play along because it's funny, because it's written down, you've memorized it, it's all you know. I say the phrases that keep it all going, and everybody plays along.

Imagine this: You're pulling the car over. Somebody's waiting. You're going to die in your best friend's arms. And you play along because it's funny, because it's written down, you've memorized it, it's all you know. I say the phrases that keep it all going, and everybody plays along. Imagine: Someone's pulling a gun, and you're jumping into the middle of it. You didn't think you'd feel this way.

You're a solid person, Sage. You're easy on the eyes, if a little skinny, and your ability to memorize useless information is going to totally hook in some guy.

It is a pity that many Christians have the TV schedule better memorized than a single chapter for God's precious Word.

Repetition is the father of learning, I repeat, repetition is the father of learning.

Repetition is the father of learning.

I hate learning lines, so the fight stuff's always my favorite.

I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Lines are very difficult to learn.

I managed to memorize half of "The Eve of St. Agnes," and would mutter stanzas to myself when I was bored, alone, or at aerobics class.

In literature, too, it is not great achievement to memorize what you have read while not formulating an opinion of your own.