Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

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.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately but write from recollection and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Intelligence is the wife imagination is the mistress memory is the servant.

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.

Our ability to find humor in the world to make connections between previously unconnected notions to create new ideas to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

Hope has a good memory gratitude a bad one.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Home is one's birthplace ratified by memory.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory friends you can trust love of learning and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

After Nixon resigned in 1974 he engaged in a very aggressive war with history attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily history won largely because of Nixon's tapes.

History takes time. History makes memory.

History is a people's memory and without a memory man is demoted to the lower animals.

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.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

A strange thing is memory and hope one looks backward and the other forward one is of today the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain memory is a painter it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it because it is very true.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

A retentive memory may be a good thing but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.