Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you just described the thing you remember most about it? Doubtful. Narrative is a necessary cement, but it disappears from memory.

As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

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

As people get older and fall out of the spotlight, people's memory of them changes.

What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.

If you're not doing something right, you can feel it on stage, and if it isn't going well, the audience will tell you. A teacher can teach you sense memory and this and that, but until you get in front of an audience, you don't really feel it.

My memory is not that good anymore.

My first memory in life was my last visit to Warm Springs.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

Sometimes you go to a show, and you see someone and think they're not there right now. They're performing, but it's muscle memory. There is no memorising some of the ways we put on a show.

The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.

People knew that I was a disciple of Sivaji Ganesan and wanted to honour his memory. In fact, I did a movie and play adaptation of 'Vietnam Veedu,' and used the song 'Un Kannil Neer Vadinthal' as part of the play.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.