A memory is made up of pieces of information taken in and processed by the brain in a way that is unique to each individual.
It only took one imperfection. One. Then laughs would turn into screams [...]. People would turn into memories and memories into nightmares.
Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.
(...) always regretted that good memory often prevents us from thinking for ourselves.
Good people protect people they love even if that means that pretending that everything is okay.
Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.
As she ran, a memory uncurled in her mind and spread out before her and it felt like she was running into the memory.
There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.
I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan.
With Alzheimer's, recent memory is affected first. At the start, you count the memory loss in days, then hours - then in minutes. But there's also an insidious backward creep of deterioration.
My short love story gave me lots of memories but i never wanted memories, I wanted you.
The lonely, wistful revisionism of memories is as gratingly repetitive as snow and ice in Canada. I avoid them both at all costs - memories and Canada.
I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams.
Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.
I have a very good memory for scripts. I can watch a show I like once, then remember about 90% of the script. But ask me who was in it, and I wouldn't have a clue.
I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison's 'Moondance.'
I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think of as explicit memory has to do with location.
That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?
I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individual. I think it's the same thing for a country.
I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.
