Quotes About Memory

Bitcoin is probably the most portable money in the history of the world. I can download any amount onto a thumb drive and walk across any border without any problems. Or, I could commit to memory a line of code that I can then input into the network and save or spend Bitcoins.

I remember going for a drink of water, and one old bloke shouts, 'Hey you, young lad! Your grandad is under that grass!' I just turned around to him, gave him the thumbs up and said: 'Nae problem!'

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Sometimes we talk about memory as though it's firm and fixed, but of course, memory is highly fluid and subjective and thus highly subject to manipulation.

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

When I perform on stage, you have to remember my performance or buy another ticket to the party! In television and film, you can see it over and over again.

I would say the first concert I ever went to is my earliest memory. I was four and already obsessed with Michael Jackson. We were living in Munich at the time. My mom, being the best person ever, somehow managed to get us two tickets to the '97 Michael Jackson History World Tour.

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

It's so long since I've had sex I've forgotten who ties up who.

Memory is this one attempt to not be erased by time. And I think that ties back to what I learned watching my grandmother lose her memories is, you know, we are all facing erasure eventually.

We are all a tiger with feelings. An elephant who never forgets. We are tiger, panther, monkey - we are all of these things, all of the life rhythms.

My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.

I remember going to The Open in 1998 aged seven and snatching a picture of Tiger walking past.

Elemental Memory and Atomic Memory together constitute

When you live by the memory of a single book, you are religious. When you live by the memory of several books, you are intellectual. When you live by the memory of several generations of people, you become a truly compassionate human being. But if you live beyond the memory of generations of people, you become a mystic.

Educational psychologist Jerome Bruner of New York University cites studies that show that people only remember 10% of what they hear, 30% of what they read, but about 80% of what they see and do.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

it talks to your corpse with gentle words.

Those days of despair, inflation, and worry about a sick child are irresistibly connected in my memory with the sight of Ketchup.

To write the essay is to be haunted by our own lies. No story is the whole story. Everything we know is shadowed by what we've missed, forgotten, or been afraid to see.

sed plerique mortales postrema meminêre

I wish I could unpick the stitches of time that have become all tangled and twisted together.

All these questions and many more besides only occurred to me much, much later when there was no one left to ask.