#memory

If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#around #ask #bad #biggest #close

How can we hold onto those fleeting moments in our lives? Hold onto the moments that otherwise evaporate into the forgotten past? Or moments that become faded and morphed into our own version of reality as they sit in the corners of our memories, losing their truth and shifting focus? The only way to hold onto these moments and share them for years to come, in all their beauty and truth and glorious imperfections, without losing accuracy is through a photograph. ↗

— Rosanne Moreland

#photography-memory-immortality #beauty

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#good #good memory #memory #never #realize

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. ↗

— Helen Keller

#beloved #certain #friends #good #heart

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

#dangerous #enters #first #her #into

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#gone #his #living #man #memory

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#belonging #between #category #common #creates

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes. ↗

— George Savile

#his #jewels #like #man #memory

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory. ↗

— George Savile

#good #good memory #memory #prophet #qualification

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger

#frame #lives #memory #myth #our