Quotes About Memory

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.

In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn't fancy a literate society. He felt that people would lose the capacity to think for themselves, simply adopting the perspective of a handy written opinion, and that they would cease to remember what could be written down.

I have a card catalogue in my brain of every lyric of every sappy love song ever written.

I was worried that one day, 40 years from now, I would look back and wouldn't be able to remember the details of my life, so I've written them all down.

Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.

I have a very, very good memory, and I always remember the people who have done right by me and the people who have done wrong by me.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'

'Lucky Man' I wrote when I was twelve years old. I wrote it when I first was given a guitar by my mother. I only knew four chords, but I used them all to write that song. And it just stayed with me, stayed in my head. I didn't even write it on a piece of paper. I remembered it.

I made a movie when I was 15 years old with all my friends. This is when IMDb was a little more lax with its proceedings, so it's listed as one of my projects. I was 15 years old; it's a terrible movie. I wrote 50 percent of it because I wanted to kiss this one girl, and I wrote a kissing scene for it.

I can't remember anything I ever wrote.

I have been forgetting things for years - at least since I was in my 30s. I know this because I wrote something about it at the time; I have proof. Of course I can't remember exactly where I wrote about it or when, but I could probably hunt it up if I had to.

Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

There aren't many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called 'Horned Pigeon.' He had been on the run and hadn't eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable.

I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but... I wrote the song about her on the way back home.

As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south.

When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged and continued. I even wanted to write my memoirs at the age of ten. At twelve I wrote poetry, mostly about friendship - 'Ode to Friendship.' Then my class wanted to make a film, and one little boy suggested that I write the script.

I remember very little about writing the first series of 'Hitchhiker's.' It's almost as if someone else wrote it.

I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there.

I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.