#memory

My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic. ↗

— Jane Horrocks

#acting #baby #called #dad #earliest

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. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#act #am #because #bristles #ceases

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

You never know when you're making a memory. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#making #memory #never #you

It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#hard #hard time #i #love #memory

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before. ↗

— Steven Wright

#humor #memory #humor

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before. ↗

— John Green

#loss #memory #remember

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#forgetting #happiness #memory #happy