#memo

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me. ↗

— Bernhard Langer

#first thing #get #happening #know #lose

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#been #christianity #history #know #memory

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third. ↗

— Timothy Leary

#decreased #effects #enhanced #forget #i

I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now. ↗

— Donna Leon

#because #book #books #happens #i

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features. ↗

— Primo Levi

#carved #change #erased #even #extraneous

The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable. ↗

— Barry Levinson

#always #audience #away #certain #certain things

It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#about #also #aspects #beautiful #beautiful city

We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#actually #hearing #interested #lot #memory

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#business #cut #lonely #lonely business #memories

I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do y'all want for lunch, and as we're eating lunch, what do y'all want for dinner? It's always about the next meal. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#always #breakfast #carefully #dinner #eat