Memory Hole Quotes

#1. None of us had ever encountered, or even imagined, such a power of amnesia, the possibility of a pit into which everything, every experience, every event, would fathomlessly drop, a bottomless memory-hole that would engulf the whole world.

Oliver Sacks

#2. Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the perpetrators, and for allowing the terrible facts to be sunk deep in the memory hole. All of this is of great significance, as it has been in the past.

Noam Chomsky

#3. We have a nasty habit of flushing down the memory hole "the people who lost." Or demonizing them. Going back in time and painting Snidely Whiplash mustaches on their luckless countenances.

Bill Kauffman

#4. When the doctors showed me an X-ray of my brain, they pointed to a black hole on the upper left side and told me that all memory from that spot was dead. I thought to myself that I hoped that's where I kept 'The Orange Blossom Special.'

Johnny Gimble

#5. I couldn't master this kind of apathy, no matter how hard I tried. I was built to care - to notice, to overanalyze, to try - in a way that felt inalterable.

Emery Lord

#6. All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

James Lane Allen

#7. I could help you," I said. "Counseling, drugs, a religious advisor, a girlfriend.

Janet Evanovich

#8. Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we've got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: Inside joke. (still LOL-ing) Piper: Whatever.

Rick Riordan

#9. What cannot be made simple cannot be made clear and what is not clear will not get done.

Stephen Bungay

#10. My heart was beating so hard that for a second I thought I might pass out. It was like revisiting the hole where you'd once been held in solitary confinement: a force field of muscle-memory-stored pain and toxic energy so palpable I was afraid that if I stayed any longer it might suck me back in.

Heather King

#11. I'd always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

Charlaine Harris

#12. We had generals who were admirals and admirals who wanted to be generals. Generals acting as admirals are bad enough, but it was the admirals who wanted to be generals who imperiled victory among the coral islands.

Holland Smith

#13. How comes it that our memories are good enough to retain even the minutest details of what has befallen us, but not to recollect how many times we have recounted to the same person?

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#14. It may not seem like much - a few kisses in the dark - but it was enough to burn a hole like an ulcer in my heart.

Jean Kwok

#15. He'd done this hundreds of times: done a job, been drugged with a narcotic that erased his short term memory, and dumped in a seedy hole in the wall locale, where when he climbed out, he would have to figure out where he was, find a payphone, and call in for his next job.

Jennifer Arnett

#16. A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.

Jane Stanton Hitchcock

#17. A narrative thread gives people permission to think about other things whilst being carried by its flow. It does not mean that one has to compromise one's vision, or question formal concerns. It's just being more subtle and clever by having one accessible thread.

Sally Potter

#18. Each misstep leads to the next correct step.

Brad Pitt

#19. I like a spirituality with a God that knows how to drive a car, that knows how to take his girl to the dance club, dance all night, have a little drink, kiss the kid when they come back in and go to sleep. God doesn't need a chauffeur
he needs to drive himself.

Jeff Buckley

#20. I think the world is much better off without Saddam Hussein than with him.

Rudy Giuliani

#21. I don't remember her. But she feels special. There's this hole in my heart every time I draw her; you know, a sick sort of feeling. Like she's someone I lost.

C. Robert Cargill

#22. Lyme disease, psittacosis, Q fever: These three differ wildly in their particulars but share two traits in common. They are all zoonotic and they are all bacterial. They stand as reminders that not every bad, stubborn, new bug is a virus.

David Quammen

#23. They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

David Rockefeller

#24. Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.

Jonathan Safran Foer