Quotes About Memory

Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film.

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

As the plane lands in Glasgow airport, passengers are reminded to set their watch back, 25 years.

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

My father only hit me once, but he used a Volvo.

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

People always ask me, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi.

There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.

My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe.

So I met the bloke who invented crosswords today. I can't remember his name, it's P something T something R.

Humor does depend on surprise, and the things that people remember as the funniest things in the world, you look at later and you go, "What? What was that all about?"

I was going up to the bathroom and a woman asked me: "Have you a good memory for faces?" I asked why and she said: "Because there isn't a mirror up there."

I get my sense of humor from my parents. That's why they don't have one anymore.

I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.

When I left home, my mum said "Don't forget to write", I thought, "That's unlikely"... It's a basic skill isn't it.

Four years ago... no, it was yesterday.

That's why when I send a postcard I quiz people. "Hey, did you get that postcard?" "Yeah, yeah yeah." "Well what'd I say?" "Uh, you were havin-" "I was in jail"

Nostalgia: How long's that been around?

I want to make sure I remember what real ugly is. I might want to tell my grandchildren someday.

Ah, Proph." Tom paused. "You did have a nightmare last night.""And here I thought maybe I dreamed it, " Prophet muttered sarcastically.