It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
~ Oscar Wilde
Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
~ Carl Paladino
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
~ Khalil Gibran
Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.
~ Gary Ryan Blair
I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams.
~ Lois Lowry
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
~ André Breton
Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.
~ Joshua Foer
The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.
~ Julian Assange
My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.
~ Haruki Murakami
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
~ Adela Florence Nicolson
Language is memory and metaphor.
~ Storm Jameson
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.
~ Jamais Cascio
I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.
~ Buzz Aldrin
People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.
~ Eric Schmidt
I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.
~ Louis C. K.
Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.
~ Rick Perlstein
Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
~ Dana Goodyear
We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
~ Frank Mccourt
The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.
~ Paul Engle
May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.
~ Alastair Campbell
Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.
~ Christina Perri
My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young.
~ Mark Helprin
My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop for Larry King's TV show. There's an 'I-want-to-do-all-things-at-once' kind of theme to it.
~ Ronan Farrow
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
~ Jessamyn West
People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.
~ Henry Cantwell Wallace
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
~ Arthur M. Schlesinger
My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and throwing it out the window and her running downstairs to go after it. I have no memory before that. I was 4. My father had a lot of girlfriends and my mother had a lot of boyfriends.
~ Mike Nichols
A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.
~ Jacqueline Bisset
I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters.
~ Kurt Eichenwald
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
~ Ray Charles
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
~ Charlotte Brontë
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
~ André Gide
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
~ Leonardo Da Vinci
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
~ Lewis Carroll
We must address, individually and collectively, moral and ethical issues raised by cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence and biotechnology, which will enable significant life extension, designer babies, and memory extraction.
~ Klaus Schwab
