Retentive Quotes

#1. 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

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

Joseph A. Schumpeter

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

Elbert Hubbard

#4. Serge's attention-deficit disorder was the first of many hyphens. Obsessive-compulsive, manic-depressive, anal-retentive, paranoid-schizophrenic. He was believed to be the only self-inflicted case of shaken-baby syndrome.

Tim Dorsey

#5. That's fucking gay. Everything is gay.

Unknown Author 204

#6. 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

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

Harvey MacKay

#8. If our current barbaric world spirals into greater corruption and brutality, our descendants may become so cruel and so morally perverse that they cross time to watch us suffer, bearing orgasmic witness to the bloodbaths from which their sick civilization grew.

Dean Koontz

#9. unequivocal anal-retentive clutter buster

Katherine Bayless

#10. The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them.

Gautama Buddha

#11. Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room
before you save the world. Then save the world.

Ron Padgett

#12. Call me anal retentive, but I like nothing more than trying to solve life's problems with a good spreadsheet.

Stephanie Blackmoore

#13. Yes, anally retentive men are my forte!

Geoffrey Rush

#14. Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.

William Penn

#15. Every poet - every storyteller - requires motivation.

Andrew Pyper

#16. There are those who act," he said. "And those who are acted upon. I'm not ever going to leave you in a position again where you have no choice.

John D. Brown

#17. Well, that brings us to the point: There is only one way to protect ourselves from the deadly diseases that stalk the human family. It is abstinence before marriage, then marriage and mutual fidelity for life to an uninfected partner.

James C. Dobson

#18. Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.

Joseph Brodsky

#19. As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.

Meg Rosoff

#20. You are indestructible .J
For some reason I felt light-headed when I finished writing and looked up at her, like I'd stood up too fast or the oxygen had left my brain. Oh pulled her arm back, looked thoughtfully at the words, and replied, It's upside down, but I like it. You done good, Jacob.

Patrick Carman

#21. 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

#22. The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.

Walter Savage Landor

#23. With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.

John Bright

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

#25. I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.

Rene Auberjonois

#26. Her student loans were voracious and demanded monthly feedings,

Dave Eggers

#27. It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau

#28. There's a lot of hand-wringing going on about the death of journalism and particularly the death of investigative journalism. What I see is that there is more need than ever to have experienced information processors - people who can look through this mass of data.

Heather Brooke

#29. I know it hurts," she said. "So make it worth the pain.

Victoria Schwab

#30. His desires are set upon the whole human family, not upon a select few. He is not predisposed to just the fast learners, the naturally inclined, or the morally gifted.

Terryl L. Givens

#31. I'm anal retentive. I'm a workaholic. I have insomnia. And I'm a control freak. That's why I'm not married. Who could stand me?

Madonna