Top 100 Quotes About A Good Memory
#1. Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
William James
#2. One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.
Ann Brashares
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. (in some cases) ... a good memory is unpardonable
Jane Austen
#6. The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory
Alice Walker
#7. Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.
Catherine The Great
#9. But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.
Jane Austen
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
Myrtle Reed
#16. 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
#17. A good memory, I'm sure," Zen returned. "But a memory nonetheless.
Kate Angell
#18. The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
Augusto Roa Bastos
#19. A liar ought to have a good memory.
Quintilian
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. A good memory is needed once we have lied.
[Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]
Pierre Corneille
#24. 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
#25. A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
Mark Twain
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. I've been so lucky and blessed because words and stuff come so easy to me. I have a good memory.
Kaley Cuoco
#31. 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
#32. ...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
#33. 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
#34. A good memory is one of the most precious assets of spiritual living.
Max Anders
#35. I always tell the truth, so I don't need a good memory to remember what I said") - in
Robert A. Caro
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#41. If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory
Judy Sheindlin
#42. 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
#43. If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
Mark Twain
#44. 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
#46. Aye, Captain. I have a good memory. Except for the amnesia.
Elaine Corvidae
#49. I've actually got quite a good memory. I've good recall. It's often things which other people might not notice.
Ronald Frame
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. I'm not a liar. I just have a good memory for things that never happened.
J.T. Bock
#53. A liar should have a good memory. - Quintilian, Institutions Oratoriae, iv. 2, 91
Jodi Picoult
#54. 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
#55. You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.
Franklin P. Jones
#56. 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
#58. The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.
George Savile
#59. A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
Irvin S. Cobb
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.
Christopher Hitchens
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
Quintilian
#74. 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
#75. 88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard
#79. 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
#80. Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
Ray Charles
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#85. I have a brief memory of his aftershave and a kiss good-bye. I
James Patterson
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory.
Stephenie Meyer
#91. I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.
John Petrucci
#92. 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
#93. I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good.
Wale
#94. 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
#95. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln
#96. [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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
