Betty Hill Quotes

Memory is the thing you forget with.

I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.

Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

I don’t remember.

I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'

I literally forget everything, and, trust me, that's the best thing that you can have.

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.

People sometimes forget when you remember, but they always remember when you forget.

I don't even know my own phone number.

Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the missing parts back to it, of making it more holistic.

Look, I know these Rick Perry jokes are a little mean, but tomorrow, he won't even remember them.

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

One of the leading theories of why electroconvulsive therapy is effective for most severe depressions is that it causes a loss of short-term memory - patients feel better because they can't remember why they were sad.

My memory is coming back. It is curious how it comes. Each day, a rush of pieces, loosely connected, unimportant bits, snake through me. They click, click, click into my brain, like links being snapped together. And then they are done. A small chain of memories that fill in one tiny part of my life. They come out of nowhere, and most are not important.

All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if I'd lived and forgotten it.

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

He was listening so I don't remember.

There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.

Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.

I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.