Retentive Memory Quotes

#1. Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

Harvey MacKay

#2. I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Elbert Hubbard

#4. I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.

Ed Asner

#5. What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#6. people to ourselves rather than Jesus, and then wonder why power has left the pulpit and why the deep theological treasures of some of the old hymns have degenerated into songs that exalt us above the glory of our Creator. Despite our pretensions, our pride grows

Matt Boswell

#7. It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it.

John Rhys-Davies

#8. Just as we would not traditionally assume that someone is literate if they can read but not write, we should not assume that someone possesses media literacy if they can consume but not express themselves

Henry Jenkins

#9. It is not until you learn to look at yourself, through the truth of who you are, that you can look at someone else.

Vironika Tugaleva

#10. Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?

Talib Kweli

#11. So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

Rich Mullins

#12. I would order a dozen bats and there were times they'd come back with handles at each end.

Bob Uecker

#13. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!

Jane Austen

#14. I just don't like killing creatures.

Clint Eastwood

#15. All the big pop acts that I've been into over the years - whether it's ABBA or Prince - managed to combine amazing melodies and honest human emotion. But coming out of the super-super-commerical pop industry in the 90s, maybe people forgot about the fact that pop music can do both of those things.

Robyn

#16. Before one accepts spirituality, astrology is very powerful, like a lion. Then when one enters into a deeper spiritual life, astrology becomes a tiny household cat.

Sri Chinmoy

#17. Don't be afraid anymore. Not of anyone. Not of anything. Nothing. Ever again. Listen to me: not ever again.

Marguerite Duras

#18. Living in the age of AIDS is one thing. Dying in it is another.

Gabrielle Carteris

#19. There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

Nikola Tesla

#20. Nothing is so retentive as a nation's memory.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#21. Children leave ... and parents stay behind. Still, some things are deeper than time and distance. And your father will always be your father ... And he will always leave a light on for you.

Fred Savage

#22. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.

Christopher Hitchens