It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs. – Gustave Flaubert
The forties are the time when you begin to take notice of certain aches and pains. Your body and brain behave in inexplicable ways: Less hair on your head, more in your ears and nostrils. More memories in the bank, less synaptic firepower with which to access them. Gravity has started to show its inexorable pull. – Hampton Sides
I have a terrible memory of my own past. I can barely remember my childhood. I have few memories from college and law school – though once I got married, I got the advantage of being able to consult my husband’s memory. – Gretchen Rubin
My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda. – Hamish Bowles
The Holy Ghost brings back memories of what God has taught us. And one of the ways God teaches us is with his blessings; and so, if we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God’s kindnesses to our remembrance. – Henry B. Eyring
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory. – Haruki Murakami
There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you’re still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being. – Helen Fisher
I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn’t at all clear in the beginning. – Gordon Moore
For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed. – Henry Rollins
My job is to listen and to ask questions and to be respectful and win the trust of my subjects so that I can work my way into their memories and their point of view. – Hector Tobar
I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal. – Hedy Lamarr
Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife. – Greg Graffin
I’m always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance. – Gretchen Rubin
All evidence indicates that the neuron does not reset. The synapses do not reset. They are always different. They’re changing every millisecond. Your brain today is very, very different from what it was when you were 10 years old, and yet you may have profound memories from when you were 10. – Henry Markram
The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it’s almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly. – Henry Rollins
I’m one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories. – Hilary Mantel
Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every conceivable recording need. – Graydon Carter
You shouldn’t wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories. – Heidi Klum
I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I’ve got lots of photos of the hook and ladder coming out of the house. And I like food, so I tend to photograph wonderfully presented food all the time. To me those are very pleasant memories. – Gordon Bell
One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good. – Gretchen Rubin
The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future. – Henepola Gunaratana
More than specific memories of achievements, for me I remember the feeling you get when you were just at your very best – when you felt like you were floating across the court and could put the ball wherever you wanted. – Guy Forget
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express. – George A. Smith
Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it’s over. It’s over. – Jeff Buckley
Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed. – J. G. Ballard
Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events. – Joshua Foer
I grew up in New York City, and I’ve got wonderful memories of the Fourth of July fireworks. – Jimmy Smits