Clear Memory Quotes

#1. I must have been very young, but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall ... with wax crayons.

Robert Ingpen

#2. I'm not a superstitious person, but when I wake up from this dream, this painfully clear memory of John, I have the most horrible feeling in my chest.
I would rather die than see them hurt you.
And I have a sudden fear that somehow, some way, what he said in the dream will come true.

Marie Lu

#3. One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I'd have done even worse if they'd been on a laptop screen.

Gail Collins

#4. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. - STEVEN WRIGHT

Darynda Jones

#5. She closed her eyes, and Daniel could practically see the memory washing over her face. 'It was such a lovely night,' she whispered. 'Midsummer, and so very clear. You could have counted the stars forever.

Julia Quinn

#6. All of it burning. Every memory he ever made. Above Fort National, the dawn becomes deeply, murderously clear. The Milky Way a fading river. He looks across to the fires. He thinks: The universe is full of fuel.

Anthony Doerr

#7. Sony is a clear leader in the digital camera and camcorder categories. As Sony continues to develop next-generation video and still image capture technologies, the demand for high speed, large capacity, small form factor memory cards will grow as well.

Bill Vaughan

#8. His memory is perfectly clear

and serves no good, no purpose
at all. He has seen things before

(the fly in the bottle,
the indeterminate will).

Santa Muerte, Saint Death,
we pray to you to swallow our breath.

Michael Palmer

#9. When comparing human memory and computer memory it is clear that the human version has two distinct disadvantages. Firstly, as indeed I have experienced myself, due to aging, human memory can exhibit very poor short term recall.

Kevin Warwick

#10. But she was funny sometimes, and never boring. God, it would almost be worth it to see her face when she realized that I had saved her ass again.
Actually it was quite a nice ass, come to think of it. In fact, my memory of the ass and its owner seemed to be remarkably clear.

Ilona Andrews

#11. Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.

Harold Brodkey

#12. Are you sure you weren't adopted?"
"Mom would like to think so, but it was a natural birth, so her memory's real clear.

Jana Deleon

#13. My memory of that day is like television itself, sharp and clear but unreliable.

Wally Lamb

#14. Regrets never sit well, with those that never forget.

Anthony Liccione

#15. He had a clear, lyrical voice and his songs remained in her ears long after the music had ended.

Hiroko Sherwin

#16. Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.

Thomas Carlyle

#17. To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something you cannot possibly escape: your psychological make-up is such that you are inclined to look back over your shoulder.

W.G. Sebald

#18. Your clear conscience is due to a poor memory.

R. Newman

#19. Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.

Sherwood Smith

#20. A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color

William Bolitho

#21. I come to Jerusalem. There, the sky is blue and memory becomes clear.

Menachem Begin

#22. The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

Oscar Wilde

#23. It was clear that he didn't remember me from one day to the next. The note clipped to his sleeve simply informed him that it was not our first meeting, but it could not bring back the memory of the time we had spent together.

Yoko Ogawa

#24. A man's memory might have only a hundred clear days in it and he has lived thousands. Can't do much about that. We have our store of days and we spend them like forgetful drunkards.

Sebastian Barry

#25. If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

Oscar Wilde

#26. When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory as if I had thought of it myself. It was a clear sign that I wanted to be involved in writing, even if it was just pretend at that point.

Jonathan Dee

#27. A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Doug Larson

#28. We become aware, with amazement, that we have forgotten nothing, every memory evoked rises in front of us painfully clear.

Primo Levi

#29. Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and brightly coloured like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope.

D.E. Stevenson

#30. The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

W.G. Sebald

#31. I'm just lucky. I do have very clear memories of childhood. I find that many people don't, but I'm just very fortunate that I have that kind of memory.

Beverly Cleary

#32. The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.

Max Muller

#33. a clear conscience is usually a sign of bad memory.

Ashwin Sanghi

#34. If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

Pope Francis

#35. How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept.

William Cowper

#36. A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.

Mark Twain

#37. A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.

Joan D. Vinge