Quotes About Memory

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

I am terrible with people's names.

Everybody forgets names and faces, and it's just inconsiderate to expect someone who isn't your boss or your sister-in-law to know exactly who you are.

I wish I could remember people's names. I'm supposed to remember so many.

When I was shooting in Pollachi, I had tried out a lot of local food, most of them I don't remember the names of.

I have a terrible memory. I never remember names or faces. It's incredibly embarrassing.

I went into 'Bigg Boss' because I wanted to experience what it was like. It was more disorienting than I had bargained for. I began to forget the names of people in my life. It got scary.

Memory doesn't come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space.

Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

For 'Frost/Nixon,' I had eight people who were present at those interviews - they were all in the room - and when I interviewed each of them, they had a totally different narrative of events, to the degree where you thought, 'Were you all really in the same room?'

We're all building our narratives in our heads.

Right now I'm trying to do a fragrance called Natalie. She's very, very much alive for us.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

I am not naturally inclined to history or geography - maybe that's why I like to sing about it, because it helps me remember.

Chips from Taiwan provide 37 percent of the world's new computing power each year. Two Korean companies produce 44 percent of the world's memory chips. The Dutch company ASML builds 100 percent of the world's extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, without which cutting-edge chips are simply impossible to make. OPEC's 40 percent share of world oil production looks unimpressive by comparison.

dynamic (due to the repeated charging) random access memory, or DRAM.

Intel decided to focus on memory chips, where mass production would produce economies of scale.

Know thyself' was Socrates' challenge, a challenge both to personal memory and to honesty.

This book is dedicated to Thomas Coleman, a retired longshoreman, who died in his attic at 2214 St. Roch Avenue in New Orleans' 8th Ward on or about August 29, 2005. He had a can of juice and a bedspread at his side when the waters rose. There were more than a thousand like him.

What is past is not dead; it is not even past. We cut ourselves off from it; we pretend to be strangers.

Einmal, Mutter, in einer anderen Zeit, habe ich mit meinen beiden Händen zum Abschied deinen Kopf umspannt, seine Form ist als Abdruck in meinen Handflächen geblieben, auch Hände haben ein Gedächtnis.

Strange as it was, he understood there was grace and strength in this pain; a reminder of what should never be forgotten.

Over a million people. So fast. Gone, just like that.