Top 100 Good Memory Quotes
#1. , and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometimes be the means of saving us.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#2. My memory is good for some things and not others.
Ann Brashares
#3. Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
Erma Bombeck
#4. A good marriage drags a long tail of memory behind it. A single word or gesture, a tone of voice can conjure up so many remembrances.
William Landay
#5. Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.
John Cameron
#6. Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
Charles Caleb Colton
#7. Memory is that trick by which we see the awful events of the past loom over the good, like mountains over mouse. We don't recall life as it was. Instead, we remember what was different, frightening, or strange, and we turn our lives into the fun-house mirror images of the truth.
Jamie Kain
#8. I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons, the memory of whom has now passed away; but the Bible he was fain to leave subsisting.
Martin Luther
#9. Well, memory can play tricks. Most people, I think, tend to remember the good rather than the bad when someone close to them dies.
Soheir Khashoggi
#10. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#11. There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations, forces us to break the pattern, to see in a new way.
Siri Hustvedt
#12. Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
William James
#13. No matter how good your memory is, you can never recollect the day your heart lost its virginity.
Subhasis Das
#14. She was a bitch,' Carl suddenly heard somebody say in the background, and that apparently refreshed everyone's memory.
yes, thought Carl with satisfaction. It's the good stable arseholes like us who are remembered best.
Jussi Adler-Olsen
#15. It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
Quintilian
#16. So - if the oldest memories could contaminate one another, could prove impossible - what good was memory at al?
Gregory Maguire
#17. It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#18. One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.
Ann Brashares
#19. As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree.
Hugh Everett III
#20. 88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#21. When I had woken up the next morning, I'd stared at my ceiling for a good ten minutes, reliving the dream, committing it to memory ... wishing it was real, wishing I could crawl back inside that dream and disappear
stay there forever.
S.C. Stephens
#22. In Australia and New Zealand, and New Zealand especially, I always find everyone is so nice and friendly. It's one of the few places that I remember visually, like I remember where I stayed and my surroundings - and that's a good sign, because I've got a terrible memory. I'm looking forward to it!
Ellie Goulding
#23. A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard
#24. And all the hurts and scars / Of everyday were healed, and I would sleep / Safe with the good-night memory of stars.
Jane Merchant
#25. Maybe that's why the good Lord gave us these vivid memory capabilities. When stress hits, we can just close our eyes, lean back and relax, and enjoy a game of Tidly-Winks, the sound of a Pete Rose baseball card in the spokes of our bike, or maybe a nice slice of watermelon - with a sprinkle of salt.
Michael Buffalo Smith
#26. Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
Ray Charles
#27. He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorrows, he had had a fair share of joys and these were ever fresh and accessible.
Evelyn Waugh
#28. I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison's 'Moondance.'
Steve Bisley
#29. Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good.
Charles Dickens
#30. Sometimes being a MOM is like a good
ol' country song! You lose your sleep, you lose your hair, you lose your patience, you lose your energy, you lose your memory AND you lose your SANITY! But you DO IT all for LOVE!
Tanya Masse
#31. My memory is not so good so my most memorable show is the last one I played. Songs are written with intention but they only emerge in the moment.
Jason Mraz
#32. Fearing lest it might seem disrespectful to his memory for me to be on good terms with anyone with whom my father had once vowed to castrate.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#33. Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. When you can see your life in retrospect, the romanticism of how good things once were gives way to the reality that positives and negatives comprise every day and every decade. (235)
Victoria Moran
#35. I have a brief memory of his aftershave and a kiss good-bye. I
James Patterson
#37. If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.
John Of The Cross
#38. I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
Aleister Crowley
#39. To me, the lasting impression of any good wine is the thought of its maker. Those whose efforts transformed the fruits of the soil into a finished work of art. Those who pulled from the hectic passage of time an ordered memory. They are immortalized by their wine in my glass.
Dave Chambers
#40. Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau days, imploded years. Like a bad actor, memory always goes for effect, abjuring motivation, consistency, good sense.
James Sallis
#41. (in some cases) ... a good memory is unpardonable
Jane Austen
#42. In every species of fish I've angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn't, much of the thrill of angling would be gone.
Ray Bergman
#43. The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory
Alice Walker
#44. I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory.
Stephenie Meyer
#45. I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.
John Petrucci
#46. You go to grab your moments and squeeze them dry. Enjoy them while you're having them. Then remember and enjoy them all over again in your memory. And try to have more good ones than bad ones - - or at least remember more of the good ones.
Jean Ferris
#47. Sometimes it seems especially difficult to submit to "great tribulation" when we look around and see others seemingly much less obedient who triumph even as we weep. But time is measured only unto man, says Alma (see Alma 40:8), and God has a very good memory.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#48. Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.
Catherine The Great
#50. But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.
Jane Austen
#51. I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good.
Wale
#52. A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.
Joseph Joubert
#53. Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people.
Richard Leakey
#54. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln
#55. They laughed much harder than the memory was funny because it felt good to laugh.
Shannon Hale
#56. I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.
Umberto Eco
#57. [I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.
Elizabeth I
#58. There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
Anthony Hecht
#59. I puked rainbows all over my childhood, and it felt so good.
L.K. Elliott
#60. One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#62. My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#64. I am happy when I am on stage. I like that wave of blue. I like the eardrum splitting sounds of loud screams. I like to be able to breathe along with the members. Each and every stage is a good reminiscence and a happy memory
Leeteuk
#67. A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
Myrtle Reed
#68. I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#69. A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.
Robertson Davies
#70. By having good memories on every place you just visit,
you are building paradise in your own heart and your life.
Toba Beta
#71. A good memory, I'm sure," Zen returned. "But a memory nonetheless.
Kate Angell
#72. It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work ... and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after.
Vincent Van Gogh
#73. The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
Augusto Roa Bastos
#74. I might have been different, I might have been as good as you - wiser - almost stainless. I envy your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory.
Charlotte Bronte
#75. If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#76. Even after everyone had gone home, the house was filled with the good time they'd had, as if it could linger in the air like the voices and music lingered in memory. Mina wrapped the memory up and put it in her heart; there was a quiet gladness, deep like a tree and tall in her
Cynthia Voigt
#77. A liar ought to have a good memory.
Quintilian
#78. I didn't want it to be one good memory that led to a lot of bad ones. I wanted it to stay what it was, one amazing moment, something that was strong and sweet enough to stand on its own. Something I could remember without any pain.
- Kate
Elizabeth Scott
#79. It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.
George Foreman
#80. And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
Black Elk
#81. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Helen Keller
#82. The smell of her hair lingered just out of reach of his memory and left him with a nervous hum resonating throughout his body like a child forced to sit in church while the sun was shining outside on a perfectly good summer's day.
Erik Tomblin
#83. He had acquired all the composed and self-reliant look which is so remarkable in a good non-commissioned officer.
Thomas Hughes
#84. The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#85. Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals of silk until it becomes the only good memory I have of her
the only memory I allowed myself to keep.
Karen White
#86. Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them.
Saint John Chrysostom
#89. Dislike required energy and a good memory for slights; geniality was so much less demanding, and at the end of the day felt better too.
Alexander McCall Smith
#90. Look," she told me. "A good kreda is very hard to find. I invested a lot of time and memory in you. I had no intention of giving all that up, just because you were going to be in a bad mood for a decade or two.
C.S. Friedman
#91. We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we're older. Things change.
Abbi Glines
#92. Even if I know that really it's not a great song, even if it's a naff song but I have a good memory of it, then to me that's a great song.
George Ezra
#93. That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could forget the good and only remember the bad.
Louise Penny
#94. For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.
Eduardo Galeano
#95. Because we had known the good times, I think my brother and I felt the loss more acutely. My father's waning presence, his chronic absence, his disappearance. Now he was just a memory.
Bryan Cranston
#96. Men are born with a great asset of weak memory, especially for the bad moments. It's not the same with women though. Good or bad, they would keep the memories intact like permanent data in ROM.
Mita Jain
#97. Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for?
Pyotr Kropotkin
#98. Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal.
Jim Rohn
#99. It is good here: rustle and snow-crunch ...
Ski tracks on the splendid finery
of the snow; a memory
that long ages ago
we passed here together.
Anna Akhmatova
#100. No one ever forgets a talk they had that lasted through the night.
Marty Rubin
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