#memory

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#called #dictionary #great #made #memory

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

#bit #died #entitled #families #ground

Put your memories on the shelf. Then, when your hippocampus is floating in a jar, admit you never really knew anybody. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #memory #funny

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#alliance #appear #branches #close #different

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#forgotten #hot #i #just #know

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#comes #emotional #had #having #impact

The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life. ↗

— Sophie Kinsella

#perseverance #sophie-kinsella #life

My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#first #grilling #life #memory #our

I think all writing is done through memory. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#i #i think #memory #think #through

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#autobiography #bad #except #his #memory