#memory

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

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

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#blessed #blessing #enjoy #memory #must

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

#brains #face #figure #grace #hide

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. ↗

— John Berger

#burden #camera #cynical #forget #god

Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#decisions #justice #know #longer #memory

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#does #happens #left #memory #something

believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. I could be shooting heroin with the Princess of Wales, naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still couldn't compare to the time the cops chased us after we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool in eleventh grade. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#experience