Quotes About Memory

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.

If there's one thing that we're very good at as humans, it's remembering the bad stuff. For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

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?

I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.

Liars need to have good memories.

I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a dream.

We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.

I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.

I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory.

There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them.

I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.

A good liar must have a good memory.

The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.

Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.

Evoke one good memory for each bad one from now on.

I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie

I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days.