If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
H. L. MenckenI spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
Dan QuayleThe two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Samuel JohnsonMany a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Friedrich NietzscheSeeing Pax get extra-nervous about which shirt he is going to wear when he meets Aung San Suu Kyi, I get very moved. He rightfully doesn’t get nervous going to a movie premiere; he gets nervous going to meet her.
Angelina JolieI wasn’t a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn’t written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.
Madeleine AlbrightMy mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.
John KennedyEvery man’s memory is his private literature.
Aldous HuxleyI get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.
Kurt CobainHow we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid.
Frank OceanYesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
Khalil GibranMemory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.
Albert EinsteinThe difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Salvador DaliI have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.
Tom BradyAfter the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.
Stephen KingThe Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ‚cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.
Bill GatesA political event was that I met Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary. He is a young, intelligent guy, very sure of himself and extraordinarily audacious; I think we hit it off well.
Che GuevaraPeople see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.
John KennedyThe sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
George EliotIt is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar WildeMy recollection is – and I’d have to confirm this – but I don’t recall paying any money to go to law school.
Joe BidenSometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
Alice MunroWhen I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Mark TwainNobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
Benjamin DisraeliHoward Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.
Alice WalkerJohn Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
Noam ChomskyMan is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
AristotleI have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.
Henry KissingerYou tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.
Pope FrancisYesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.
Bob DylanThe pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Charles DickensAlas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Henry David ThoreauThere are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.
Leonardo da VinciBut being on location and shooting, whether its in Puerto Rico or Atlanta, it always reminds me of how really cool my job can be. Interacting with the fans is one of the best parts of it.
Dwayne JohnsonNo memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
Robert FrostNo man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham LincolnMemory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
Alice MunroGeologists have a saying – rocks remember.
Neil ArmstrongIf I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
Abraham LincolnI had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker – yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.
Jane GoodallHold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘
Maya AngelouMy favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut – he’s my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don’t really remember what we talked about.
Steven WrightThe meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl JungI have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
Alice MunroI only see clearly what I remember.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWhen I’m on stage, it’s really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It’s funny how different it looks and how it’s happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I’m going to get a bagel.
Steven WrightI’ve got a terrible memory; it’s probably because I’m always concentrating on what I’m doing now.
Vivienne WestwoodThe happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel JohnsonI never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
Marcus Tullius CiceroOur dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George EliotI didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.
Jane GoodallI do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.
Terry PratchettBilly Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.
Jimmy CarterKindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
William Makepeace ThackerayThe nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
Galileo GalileiLife is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee WilliamsI know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.
Dwayne JohnsonI think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.
Haruki MurakamiI have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.
Bill GatesNothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
Virginia Woolf