Top Memory Quotes
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Lord Acton
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
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
W. G. Sebald
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
Rita Mae Brown
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
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I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.
Yvonne Strahovski 
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The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
Linus Torvalds
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So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Helen Keller
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Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.
Marjorie Holmes
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To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.
Jacky Ickx
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
Edgar Degas
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus
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For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
Ethel Barrymore
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Francis Bacon
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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
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Popular Memory Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldHenry David ThoreauFriedrich NietzscheOscar WildeSamuel JohnsonAlbert EinsteinVictor HugoMarcus Tullius CiceroBenjamin Disraeli PlatoAbraham LincolnFrancis BaconGeorge EliotGeorge SantayanaThomas Fuller
Michel de MontaigneDavid Herbert LawrenceAldous HuxleyRobert Louis StevensonKahlil GibranEmile M. Cioran AeschylusGertrude SteinRobert FrostElbert HubbardOliver Wendell HolmesRichard M. NixonJosh BillingsCharles BaudelairePierre Corneille
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