Mnemonic Quotes

#1. But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.

Quentin Tarantino

#2. The genres of the fantastic and the grotesque are far more interesting to me than most mnemonic fiction.

Ellen Datlow

#3. I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.

Iggy Azalea

#4. Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.

Lord Chesterfield

#5. That can cause an electrolyte disturbance: hypercalcemia. Stones, bones, moans, groans, thrones, and psychiatric overtones. That's the mnemonic, Natasha said, and repeated psychiatric overtones to herself. p.307

Anthony Marra

#6. I wondered how those traits translated during sex. Was he secretly soft and gentle or rough and controlling? Hot damn.

Anonymous

#7. I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.

Flannery O'Connor

#8. Here's a mnemonic device that might be useful. LEO the lion says GER LEO: you Lose Electrons in Oxidation GER: you Gain Electrons in Reduction

Princeton Review

#9. We're an information economy. They teach you that in school. What they don't tell you is that it's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. Fragments that can be retrieved, amplified ...

William Gibson

#10. Zen is a very fast path to enlightenment, fast in comparison to some other paths, not fast for the person who practices it. There is no sense of speed.

Frederick Lenz

#11. As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Sandra Boynton

#12. The low E is at the top, the second string is A, then it's D, G, B, and the last one is high E." A mnemonic device he once heard came to mind and, plucking the strings, he said, "Eddie Ate Dynamite ... Good Bye Eddie,.

Rachel Harris

#13. An American soldier, Saddam in his sights, has a picture of a naked, buxom woman on his dashboard, an obvious affront to Muslim sensibilities.

Margo Kingston

#14. What will the world be quite overturned when you die?

Epictetus

#15. To my mind this is what shamanic training must really be, is mnemonic training. If you want to bring the stuff back you have to train yourself to bring it back.

Terence McKenna

#16. I never forget," Myrnin said in a choked whisper. "Certainly not with your nails in my throat. They're quite an excellent mnemonic device.

Rachel Caine

#17. Poe's drunkenness was a mnemonic device, a deliberate method of work, drastic and fatal, no doubt, but suited to his passionate nature. Poe taught himself to drink, just as a careful man of letters makes a deliberate practice of filling his notebooks with notes.

Charles Baudelaire

#18. Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

Peter Davison

#19. Emotion is the best mnemonic device.

Alice Fulton

#20. Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

Felix Dennis

#21. Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory. And some poems are themselves mnemonics, that is to say, the whole purpose of the poem is to enable us to remember some information.

James Fenton

#22. If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Edgar Allan Poe

#23. There is a strong link between synesthesia and photographic memory (technically called eidetic memory) or at least heightened memory (hypermnesis). Many synesthetes used their synesthesia as a mnemonic aid.

Richard E. Cytowic

#24. Our art is called 'Feruchemy,' and it grants the ability to store certain physical attributes inside bits of metal.

Brandon Sanderson