Memory Quotes
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A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.
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More Memory Quotes
A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my Memory Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.
john milton— 1634 Comus, A Mask, l.204-8.
Some wonder why I have such a feeling of concern over the imposition of the death penalty. I ask those who wonder how would you feel if you defended a man charged with murder, who was as innocent as any hon. member in this House at this very moment, who was convicted; whose appeal was dismissed, who was executed; and six months later the star witness for the Crown admitted that he, himself, had committed the murder and blamed it on the accused? That experience will never be effaced from my Memory.
john diefenbaker— May 1, 1972, House of Commons.
To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a Memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.
walter benjamin— VI
To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than Memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart!
frances burney— The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, vol. 1, p. 1, journal entry, March 27, 1768.
The leaves of Memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— The Fire of Drift-wood, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantations Dissolve the floors of Memory And all its clear relations Its divisions and precisions.
— 1917 Prufrock and Other Observations,'Rhapsody on a Windy Night'.
All water has a perfect Memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
toni morrison— As quoted in Grace Notes (1989) by Rita Dove
For many years I believed that I remembered helping my grandfather drink his whisky toddy when I was six weeks old, but I do not tell about that any more, now; I am grown old, and my Memory is not as active as it used to be. When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it.
mark twain— p. 210. (Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010))
To his teaching we owe it there is such a thing as Irish Nationalism and to the Memory of the deed he nerved his generation to do, to the Memory of ‘98, we owe it that there is any manhood left in Ireland.
patrick pearse— Ibid. (Sourced)
And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. […] Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused Memory, perhaps, of its plaintive “cry”). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals my old and valued friends Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.
oliver sacks— p. 317 (Uncle Tungsten (2001))
In plucking the fruit of Memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.
Constantinus— 1920 The Arrow of Gold, author's note. AD Roman Emperor, who adoptedChristianity c.312 AD. He founded a royal residence at Byzantium (Constantinople), an act of great historical importance.
Of those four winters which I passed in Indo-China opium has left the happiest Memory.
— 1955 The Quiet American, introduction.
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my Memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. 416
— 1933 'The Name and Nature of Poetry', Lecture at Cambridge, 9 May.
A man's Memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.
fawn brodie— No Man Knows My History, ch. 19 (1945)
I hid my love when young till ICouldn't bear the buzzing of a fly;I hid my love to my despiteTill I could not bear to look at light:I dare not gaze upon her faceBut left her Memory in each place;Where eer I saw a wild flower lieI kissed and bade my love good bye.
john clare— "Secret Love"
As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good Memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree.
hugh everett— illustrating the branching of individuals in many worlds each time an observation is performed, in an early draft of his doctoral dissertation (1950s). Accessible at Read original documents of Nova's Parallel worlds documentary of Hugh Everett's work.
To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the Memory's vault and mix in a sad Memory from one's own life.
albert finney— As quoted in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988)
Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough Memory, thinking of an economical way to make the movements look right was like solving a puzzle, and I had a lot of fun.
shigeru miyamoto— Source: [2]
Originally, I wanted a machine that would cost $100. My idea was to spend nothing on the console technology so all the money could be spent on improving the interface and software. If we hadn't used NAND flash Memory [to store data such as games and photos] and other pricey parts, we might have succeeded.
shigeru miyamoto— Source: November 16, 2006 Business Week interview
You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of Memory. That social order and control, structure of governance, social cohesion in states or organizations larger than face-to- face society depends on the nature of the technology of Memory--both how it works and what it remembers... In short, what societies value is what they memorize, and how they memorize it, and who has access to its memorized form determines the structure of power that the society represents and acts from.
eben moglen— Talk titled "Freedom Business" @ The O'Reilly Media MySQL Conference, 2007-04-25 [5]
Each minute bursts in the burning room,The great globe reels in the solar fire,Spinning the trivial and unique away.(How all things flash! How all things flare!)What am I now that I was then?May Memory restore again and againThe smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fire in which we burn.
delmore schwartz— "Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day" in In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (1938); this poem has also been printed under the title "For Rhoda" Full text online
Thanks to my Memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some of my colleagues in other fields that I was interested in things outside mathematics. This lead quickly to very pleasant relationships.
stanislaw ulam— Chapter 7, The University of Wisconsin, p. 125
Die Hard represents the class of modern action pictures and the standard by which they must be judged. Few films falling into the "mindless entertainment" genre have as much going for them as this movie. Not only is it a thrill-a-minute ride, but it has one of the best film villains in recent Memory, a hero everyone can relate to, dialogue that crackles with wit, and a lot of very impressive pyrotechnics.
james berardinelli— Review of Die Hard (1988)
She was a form of life and light That seen, became a part of sight, And rose, where'er I turn'd mine eye, The morning-star of Memory! Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Alla given, To lift from earth our low desire.
lord byron— Line 1127 (The Giaour (1813))
They do not ill, being lords of ours, to slay Me; nay, they could not spare: but thee to slay, To spill thy strong young life for truth to me, In all men's eyes would mark them monstrous:;: thou Must live, and serve my slayers, and serving them Sustain my Memory by the proof if God Shall give thee grace to prove it that thy name, Thy father's name and mine, in true men's ears Rings truth, and means not treason.
algernon charles swinburne— Faliero, Act V. Sc. 3.
The Memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
linus torvalds— Source: quoted by Alan Cox here
It is notorious that the Memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.
thomas de quincey— Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1821, pt. I.
I have the most ill-regulated Memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done.
— Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night, 1936.
