Memory is more indelible than ink.
Anita Loos

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
Ray Charles

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
Linus Torvalds

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.
James Herriot

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.
Sandra Cisneros

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.
Giacomo Casanova

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
Giacomo Casanova

I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
Studs Terkel

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
Denis Diderot

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
Denis Diderot

When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.
Floyd Abrams

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.
Warren Zevon

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
Anna Akhmatova

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