No canvas absorbs color like memory.
Robert Aris Willmott
In literature and art memory is a synonyme for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.
Robert Aris Willmott
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
Alexander Smith
Our memories are independent of our wills.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
Edward de Bono
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Samuel Johnson
Memory itself is an internal rumour.
George Santayana
Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.
Pierce Harris
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Josh Billings
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
Saul Bellow
In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
John Updike