Quotes About A Good Memory

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

William James

#7. 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

#8. It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

Quintilian

#9. 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

#10. One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.

Ann Brashares

#11. 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

#12. 88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Elbert Hubbard

#16. 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

#17. Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

Ray Charles

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#23. I have a brief memory of his aftershave and a kiss good-bye. I

James Patterson

#24. A memory is never as good as a moment.

A.J. Compton

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. (in some cases) ... a good memory is unpardonable

Jane Austen

#29. The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory

Alice Walker

#30. I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory.

Stephenie Meyer

#31. I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.

John Petrucci

#32. 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

#33. Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.

Catherine The Great

#34. I'm happy with the Byrds as a good memory.

Roger McGuinn

#35. But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.

Jane Austen

#36. I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good.

Wale

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Abraham Lincoln

#40. 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

#41. [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

#42. 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

#43. One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#44. One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

Pierre Corneille

#45. a fresh start can be as alluring as a good memory.

Jessica Hawkins

#46. 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

#47. A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.

Myrtle Reed

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. A good memory, I'm sure," Zen returned. "But a memory nonetheless.

Kate Angell

#51. 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

#52. The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#53. 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

#54. A liar ought to have a good memory.

Quintilian

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. He had acquired all the composed and self-reliant look which is so remarkable in a good non-commissioned officer.

Thomas Hughes

#60. 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

#61. It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

Pierre Corneille

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we're older. Things change.

Abbi Glines

#65. 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

#66. For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.

Eduardo Galeano

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. No one ever forgets a talk they had that lasted through the night.

Marty Rubin

#73. A good memory is needed once we have lied.
[Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]

Pierre Corneille

#74. Was it a good --" The air was heavy with unspoken knowledge. Sam twisted and the obscene word shot out of him. "-- dance?"
Memory of the dance that none of them bad attended shook all four boys convulsively.
"We left early.

William Golding

#75. Good threat," the woman chuckled. "Here's mine: you've got about twenty minutes to hightail it over to Venetian before your brother becomes a memory wrote in pink mist. Toodles.

Daniel Younger

#76. He didn't care what she said - happiness was a lot more than good health and a poor memory. Happiness was this. It was her, and him, and that moment. Fuck Albert Schweitzer. He could kiss his ass. Happiness wasreal.

J.M. Darhower

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. It's realizing that a great dream is not as good as a great memory. The dream can be had by anyone. The memory - must be made.

Eric Thomas

#80. I hid my love when young till I
Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly;
I hid my life to my despite
Till I could not bear to look at light:
I dare not gaze upon her face
But left her memory in each place;
Where'er I saw a wild flower lie
I kissed and bade my love good-bye.

John Clare

#81. A life rooted deeply lives and grows in memory.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#82. the Christian view that this is a good world that has gone wrong, but still retains the memory of what it ought to have been.

C.S. Lewis

#83. 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

#84. A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Mark Twain

#85. 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

#86. I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become.

Khaled Hosseini

#87. 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

#88. Learning to read music in Braille & play by ear helped me develop a [very] good memory.

Ray Charles

#89. 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

#90. 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

#91. What is it like to wear another person's skin?"
"I don't have a good answer for that," I said. "It hurts."
"Can you remember their stories? Can you feel the love that they felt?

Andrew Davidson

#92. I've been so lucky and blessed because words and stuff come so easy to me. I have a good memory.

Kaley Cuoco

#93. The memory of that day in the dump made him a little sentimental for his father - they had had some good times together, and Buddy had made a decent meal in the end. Really, what else could you ask from a parent?

Joe Hill

#94. It is difficult to uproot fully grown plants; they become diseased and often perish. In Russia now they practise winter transplanting: a tree is dug up while it is in a dormant condition. In spring it comes back to life in a new place. A good method, especially as a tree has no memory.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#95. The memory of the dead is indeed a good remorse. (Le souvenir des morts - Est bien un bon remords)

Charles De Leusse

#96. The four movies I can remember seeing as a kid were 'The Elephant Man,' 'The Magnificent Seven,' 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' and 'Mad Max!' Two of those are westerns. So the western genre is emblazoned on my memory from childhood, and those are two great movies.

Casey Affleck

#97. A good memory is needed after one has lied.

Pierre Corneille

#98. Life is nothing but a memory. People who dwell on the bad ones aren't going to have a whole lot of good ones coming up.

John Daly

#99. You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.

Heston Blumenthal

#100. Biting my lip, I trace the cigarette-butt scars along Jeb's bared torso. I've often wished he could replace all those bad memories with the good ones we've made together since. But now, more than ever, I realize how important every memory is, bad or good, because they shape who we become.

A.G. Howard