Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.
Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.
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.
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.
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.
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.
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
Don't cry, you will have good memories from now on.
All bad memories erased! Now you can make new ones-good memories.
It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.
Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?
Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.
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