Faulty Memory Quotes

#1. Songs are built by whimsy, faulty memory, and free association.

Sting

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

Joan D. Vinge

#3. I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.

Terry Gross

#4. Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty human memory can be.

Alice Dreger

#5. Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

Garry Winogrand

#6. Had something to say? At any rate. We left our rooms pretty much

Donna Tartt

#7. There is simply too much injustice in the world. And too much remembering (of ancient grievances: Serbs, Irish) embitters. To make peace is to forget. To reconcile, it is necessary that memory be faulty and limited.

Susan Sontag

#8. Things are never as bad as they seem.

Harper Lee

#9. Many cultures accept the faulty nature of memory. They know even the photograph only gets it halfway right. They believe there is only one way to bring the dead back to life, story.

Jon Chopan

#10. We are characters - spoken and shaped down to the rhythms of the electrons in our toe fungus. But we are also active. We have been shaped in the Shaper's image.

N.D. Wilson

#11. I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

Donald Trump

#12. Memory seems as faulty, as misunderstood and misguided, as every other thought or spasm that passes through us.

Amy Bloom

#13. The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you're lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you're alive.

Ann Patchett

#14. I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

Dwight D. Eisenhower