For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of 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.
That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.
Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory.
And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.
I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization and using an actual recreation, affective memory, if you want to call it, of pain.
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.
Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?