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. Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
William James
#3. It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
Quintilian
#4. One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.
Ann Brashares
#5. 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
#6. Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
Ray Charles
#7. 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
#8. (in some cases) ... a good memory is unpardonable
Jane Austen
#9. The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory
Alice Walker
#10. 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
#11. Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.
Catherine The Great
#13. But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.
Jane Austen
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#19. A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
Myrtle Reed
#20. 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
#21. A good memory, I'm sure," Zen returned. "But a memory nonetheless.
Kate Angell
#22. The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
Augusto Roa Bastos
#23. If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#24. A liar ought to have a good memory.
Quintilian
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#29. 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
#30. We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we're older. Things change.
Abbi Glines
#31. 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
#32. A good memory is needed once we have lied.
[Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]
Pierre Corneille
#33. ( ... ) always regretted that good memory often prevents us from thinking for ourselves.
Frank Harris
#34. Good memory skill is the offspring of good focus. If you find yourself becoming a little forgetful, it is probably not because there is something wrong with your brain. Rather, it is simply because your mind is too cluttered to allow things to stick.
Ilchi Lee
#35. I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.
Mary Karr
#36. I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic. I also just have a good feeling for how words are made and formed in English and the etymologies that give you prefixes and suffixes.
Michael Chabon
#37. A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
Mark Twain
#38. It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
Michel De Montaigne
#39. About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.
David Rakoff
#40. Learning to read music in Braille & play by ear helped me develop a [very] good memory.
Ray Charles
#41. You're going to face a choice in November. This is a choice between the policies that got us into this
mess in the first place and the policies that got us out of this mess - and what the other side
is counting on is people not having a good memory.
Barack Obama
#42. A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.
Michael Leunig
#43. I've been so lucky and blessed because words and stuff come so easy to me. I have a good memory.
Kaley Cuoco
#45. Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.
Sarah Dessen
#46. 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.
Kevin Love
#47. I have a very good memory for scripts. I can watch a show I like once, then remember about 90% of the script. But ask me who was in it, and I wouldn't have a clue.
Marcus Brigstocke
#48. ...your name will remain forever in the memory of people. However, it will not be a good memory. Your name will become a household name in all languages, and it will only cause bad associations in humans.
Viktor Shel
#49. I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter that aspect.
Elia Suleiman
#50. Evoke one good memory for each bad one from now on.
David Richo
#51. A good memory is one of the most precious assets of spiritual living.
Max Anders
#52. I always tell the truth, so I don't need a good memory to remember what I said") - in
Robert A. Caro
#53. I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what I read.
Junot Diaz
#54. The mammalian brain evolved exquisite place memory because that was essential for survival. This is why squirrels have such a good memory for where they buried their nuts.
Daniel Levitin
#55. A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#56. Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them
Charles Caleb Colton
#57. I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory.
Brian Jacques
#58. Having a good memory for numbers isn't actually a failing, you know." "It is when it's weird. Are you sure you're gay? I'm beginning to think you're mathmosexual.
J.L. Merrow
#60. If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory
Judy Sheindlin
#61. I used to believe having a good memory meant being able to remember everything in perfect detail. Now I believe having a good memory means being able to selectively forget. It's not what I'll remember, Jason," he said. "It's what I'll forget that matters.
Amber Dermont
#62. I've always been able to recount things and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that.
Carol Burnett
#63. If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
Mark Twain
#64. Memory relates to ethics as well as to spirituality (the distinction between ethics and spirituality is a Western one and does more harm than good). Memory places obligations upon you. The Israelites were to remember their experience of servitude in Egypt, and treat their servants accordingly.
John E. Goldingay
#65. You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.
Sandra Dallas
#67. Aye, Captain. I have a good memory. Except for the amnesia.
Elaine Corvidae
#70. I've actually got quite a good memory. I've good recall. It's often things which other people might not notice.
Ronald Frame
#71. I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a really good memory.
Robbie Robertson
#72. Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#73. I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.
Cesar Romero
#74. The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
Tryon Edwards
#75. I'm not a liar. I just have a good memory for things that never happened.
J.T. Bock
#76. A liar should have a good memory. - Quintilian, Institutions Oratoriae, iv. 2, 91
Jodi Picoult
#77. I have a good memory for certain things. And a very short memory for painful things - that's my favorite Martha Stewart quote, by the way.
Reese Witherspoon
#78. You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.
Franklin P. Jones
#79. Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match. Some players feel that winning is everything and that losing is a disaster. Not me. I want the spectators to take home a good memory ...
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
#81. Ironically, when I was playing in my first band, I would deliberately not write down any lyrics. I have a really good memory and I would just keep them in my head.
Craig Finn
#82. The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.
George Savile
#83. A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
Irvin S. Cobb
#84. You're an actor, you want to do a scene in class. But one of the things I've always had is I've always had a really good memory. So I would go and watch a movie and then I would see a scene in the movie and I go, hey I'd like to do that in class this Wednesday.
Quentin Tarantino
#85. TO GROW OUR MIND- We must learn new things. We must CARE for more things. We must TEACH more things. We must SHARE more things. We must RETAIN more things. To grow our mind - We don't need education, We need a good memory.
Lorenzo Victory
#86. Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,
frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.
Jonathan Swift
#87. From early youth I endeavored to read books in the right way and I was fortunate in having a good memory and intelligence to assist me.
Adolf Hitler
#88. A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.
Christopher Hitchens
#90. Drinking wine is easy: tilt glass and swallow. Really tasting wine is more of a challenge. You need the proper tools and environment, the ability to concentrate, a good memory and a vivid imagination.
Marvin Shanken
#91. For me, time does not seem to pass; rather, it surrounds me. Thus I do not feel removed from memories, nor do they lose their intensity. I have keen recollections not because I have a good memory - I simply retrieve them from the ether. When memories have no velocity, they are very much at hand.
Peter Ruperte Lighte
#92. It's funny what memory does, isn't it? My favorite holiday tradition might not have happened more than once or twice. But because it is such a good memory, so encapsulating of everything I love about the holidays, in my mind it happened every year. Without fail.
Molly O'Keefe
#93. My memory is good for some things and not others.
Ann Brashares
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
