Quotes About Memory

How many State of the Union addresses do people remember? They don't resonate that way.

Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have a unique ability of taking in a lot of information and remembering relevant bits. So, memory and mental stamina are the key attributes.

My brother died when he was 19, so a part of me indulges and thinks that some part of him that made him uniquely him is out there, on another plane. So inventing the fictional afterlife in 'Sing, Unburied, Sing' was a way of making that wish real.

I was never the kind to throw parties for my birthday. I remember how embarrassed I used to be when they'd make me cut a cake on the sets, and the unit would sing 'Happy Birthday.'

Like many American millennials, an 8th grade field trip first brought me into contact with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.

If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped.

I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of occasion. And in 1983, after graduating from college, I returned to spend two years at Cambridge University.

This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman.

Even a writer like me, who, in 'The Firebird,' is telling the story of people who've been dead for nearly three centuries, needs to take care. Those people may not be around any longer to tell me what actually happened, but neither are they able to defend themselves against unjust portrayals.

History can just be so unkind as time passes.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.

People don't believe they've experienced the event unless they've taken a photograph.

Men forget everything; women remember everything.

And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.

Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?

Like most women, I remember my first drink in tender minutiae.

Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?

Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality.