Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
William Gibson

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
Andre Maurois

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
Iggy Pop

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
Joan Didion

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.
Richard Burton

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
Edward Gibbon

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
Andre Breton

I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.
Jim Jarmusch

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
William Morris

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.
Norman Wisdom

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
David Herbert Lawrence

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

You have to have a short memory as a closer.
Frank Robinson

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
Annie Dillard

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.
Tracey Emin

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.
Franklin P. Jones

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
Franklin P. Jones

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
Muddy Waters

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
Francois Rabelais