Quotes About Memory

I ken who you are! You're Strathfearn's granddaughter. Julie Stuart, is it? Och, aye, Lady Julia! Well then, Lady Julia, tell me -- who don't you deserve a glass of water?

The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.

But even while Lily was his wife, Amos thought of Ath-mun - now only a faint frail part of memory but still dear. He hoped that in making one black woman free he had made Ath-mun free if she was in need of freedom.

Working memory is the type of memory that allows us to both hold information in mind and work on it as needed.

consumo ligero o moderado de alcohol parece reducir el riesgo de Alzheimer.

Though he was only twenty-six, he felt that he had watched the decay and dissolution of a hundred years. Nothing of the past remained untouched. Not the old buildings,

It was as pleasant as a dream of some idyllic past that had never truly been, but was nice to think of all the same.

The past is so far away, but it flickers, then cleaves the night. The bones of the past splinter between our teeth. This is our life, love. Why did I think it would be anything less than too much of everything?

At his funeral, a supervisor of his home told me he'd made a request of his housemates. Whenever they looked up at a plane, would they remember him? And instead of saying the dumb thing people say when someone dies, about wishing their soul would rest in peace, he wanted everyone to think of him and say, like a solemn prayer, "May his soul have kick-ass adventures, flying and flying and flying.

Chickens have a twenty-minute memory. We primates cope through booze and denial. Dial up more of that denial part, you'll last longer.

The hours after her discovery blur in his mind, though certain moments stand out sharp as splinters beneath his skin.

A man with no memory is interesting, while a man with sad memories can't be buried fast enough.

Sometimes my lack of memory (or, to put a positive spin on it, my surplus of forgetfulness) worries me, especially since it's not limited to my early childhood.

No one but a fool would try to erase the past. The only hope was to guard against it.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

No one knew how old she was, but she vaguely remembered waving to President Coolidge. She still had all of her marbles, though every one of them was a bit odd and rolled asymmetrically.

It was a deep green felt that held one thousand slips of paper, numbered 001 to 999.

For bighorns, topography is memory, enhanced by acute vision. They can anticipate the land's every contour--when to leap, where to climb, when to turn, which footholds will support their muscular bodies. To survive, this is what the band would have to do: make this perfect match of flesh to earth.

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

In real life sweet moments are short and dulled by time.

Then how about one kiss?' he said with a sexy grin. 'Something to remember me by?' 'I'll give you something to remember me by,' I said. The back of my head.' I pushed past him and escaped through the door to freedom.

I'll give you something to remember ME by... The back of my head!

Flash drives such as the one pictured in Fig.1.6 use flash memory packaged in small plastic cases about three inches long that can be plugged into any of a computer's USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports. Unlike hard drives and optical drives that must spin their disks for access to data, flash drives have no moving parts and all data transfer is by electronic signal only. In flash memory, bits are represented as electrons trapped in microscopic chambers of silicon dioxide.