The past is still visible. The buildings haven’t changed, the layout of the streets hasn’t changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around. – Jonathan Lethem
My first memory of cinema is my mother taking me to see ‘Silkwood,’ which is about a whistleblower at a nuclear power plant. – Joshua Oppenheimer
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. – Michel de Montaigne
Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
No memory is ever alone; it’s at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations. – Louis L’Amour
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. – James Branch Cabell
We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing – who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you’re starting to grow interesting little wings? – Michael Leunig
In my novels, there are twelve ancient ‘memory tools,’ all now lost. Each of the ‘Reincarnationist’ books revolves around a different tool. – M. J. Rose
I have a very specific memory of watching ‘Singing in the Rain,’ and looking at myself in the mirror after watching it and perceiving myself as one of those people that I was just watching on T.V. It was just kind of a knowing that this would be the world that I would enter into. And that’s what I did. – Kat Edmonson
Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring. – Jeffrey Bernard
It took me 14 years to write ‘Crazy Brave’ because I kept changing the form and I also kept running away from the story. I said I don’t really want to write about myself. But it’s about writing about memory. – Joy Harjo
Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things. – Lisel Mueller
Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family’s band as a youngster on stage playing the conga drums. – Jon Batiste
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold. – John Leonard
I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty. – John Burdett
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs. – Leonardo da Vinci
I have an impeccable memory, and I can learn dialogues in any language in 20 minutes, including Telugu and Malayalam. – Katrina Kaif
A 1920s dress I wore on my 21st birthday… literally disintegrated on me. I had the most wild debauched night. And that disintegrated dress sits in my closet – such a great memory. – Liz Goldwyn
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past. – Jean Henri Fabre
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. – John Lancaster Spalding
There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all. – Leonardo da Vinci
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. – Milan Kundera
