We reserve the term ‘genius’ for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In the Middle Ages, the term ‘genius’ was reserved for people with the best memories. That is telling. – Joshua Foer
A typical biography relying upon individuals’ notorious memories and the anecdotes they’ve invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered ‘nonfiction.’ – Joyce Carol Oates
I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape. – James Vincent McMorrow
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories. – Jesse Jackson
My earliest memories of holidays are from when I was about eight. We lived in Pennsylvania, and every year we’d visit Miami. – Jay Parini
I grew up with the ‘Star Wars’ movies since before I have many memories. We had them on VHS back in the day, so they were part of the fabric of growing up in my family. – Ian Doescher
When we’re awake, cortisol can fragment memories – one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas. – Jeffrey Kluger
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books. – Jerry Saltz
One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting – not well; I am a terrible shot – quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River. – Jon Meacham
Everyone has a different impression of what they are eating; not everyone tastes the same things, and definitely, not everyone has the same food memories. – Johnny Iuzzini
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. – Angela Carter
This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories. – Bonnie Blair
So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it’s gratifying to have something you have done linger in people’s memories. – John Williams
Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing – and now to something very close to parody. – John Podhoretz
Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun. – Bobby Orr
Growing up in Poland, I didn’t have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don’t have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad. – Abel Korzeniowski
While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence. – Jidenna
A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice. – Jane Smiley
Lost in Space brings back a lot of memories for people, and I think that any time you’re involved in something that has such a long-lasting appeal, you feel very blessed by that. – Angela Cartwright
As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories. – Joshua Foer
I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the ’60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories. – Connie Stevens
I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we’d have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads. – Ahmet Zappa
My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage. – Janine di Giovanni
On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes. – A. N. Wilson
I’m so lucky because I get to have all of these memories. I can have all of those pictures and different sorts of films and stuff. Some people have only one photo, and I’m really glad that I have all of that. – Bindi Irwin
I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming – the intensity of the first person experience, LAN and Internet play, game mods, and so on. – John Carmack
Memory is not pure. Memories told are not pure memories; memories told are stories. The storyteller will change them. I’ve always been interested in that. – Alice McDermott