My favorite song is Whitney Houston’s ‘I Will Always Love You’ because my brother used to sing it to me as loud as he could. Annoying then, favorite memory now. – Shelley Hennig
When a nanotech company matures and becomes a real business, it becomes something else. It becomes a biotech company or a cleantech company or a memory chip company. Nanotechnology has fueled the core innovations in electronics and energy. – Steve Jurvetson
For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, ‘Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind.’ Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often? – Tony Buzan
Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever. – Will Self
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. – Will Durant
However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence. – Samuel R. Delany
If I get too old to write, or short-term memory loss – that was the one Philip Roth was worried about – if I got to that point, that would be terrible, because everything about my life has been streaming toward writing and having something to say. That would make me feel as though I were in an iron maiden of some kind. – Thomas McGuane
Whether you’re a quarterback and you just threw a pick, or you’re a corner and you just got beat for a touchdown, you’ve got to have a short-term memory, shake it off and play the next play. – Steve Mariucci
As authors evolve and try to trace the precedents that have shaped their work, it sometimes becomes a matter of identifying the shadowy figure in the back row of the mental photograph, or of grabbing at the tail of a memory that’s just slipping out the window into thin air. – Virginia Euwer Wolff
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third. – Timothy Leary
Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 – he’s got a long memory – they said no and Bill Gates said yes. – Walter Isaacson
I’m taking memory power boost tablets to help me every day and doing the puzzles to help me stay focused. – Terry Bradshaw
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. – Walter Benjamin
To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something you cannot possibly escape: your psychological make-up is such that you are inclined to look back over your shoulder. – W. G. Sebald
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. – Thomas Fuller
The second time is the one we remember, where memory begins. Putting the moments in order is only half the story. What matters is the weight of the moments as they accumulate. – Stacey D’Erasmo
If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives? – Taylor Caldwell
I do not want to be misunderstood that you need a dose of persecution in order, really, to have a sense of your identity. Otherwise, you know, there would be no American Jews. Even if you’re not strictly, fiercely Orthodox, you commit yourselves to a community of memory. – Simon Schama
Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule. – Steve Erickson
All of Wes Anderson’s films are confections, memoirs created in cinematic snow globes, with the subtext that memory is the most extraordinary confection of all. – Steve Erickson
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary. – Sarah Churchwell
Our study showed that the false memory and the genuine memory are based on very similar, almost identical, brain mechanisms. It is difficult for the false memory bearer to distinguish between them. – Susumu Tonegawa
I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brother. – Sheridan Smith