#memo

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago. ↗

— James Herriot

#couple #days #even #happened #having

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima. ↗

— John Hersey

#bomb #deterrence #fear #happened #hiroshima

I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#called #did #i #man #marathon

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#language #linked #memory #without

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory. ↗

— Marjorie Holmes

#emotions #entangled #his #man #memory

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#associations #channel #imagination #memories #more

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#dozen #finds #fish #full #memory

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor. ↗

— James Howell

#creditor #debtor #hath #memory #than

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

— Elbert Hubbard

#a good thing #ability #forget #good #good thing

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#imagination #memory #mistress #servant #wife