Jean Kerr Quotes

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

As you get older, you worry about your memory.

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

Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

I have a great memory.

'Mnemonic' is a play about memory.

I've always been forgetful.

My teammates will tell you I find it hard to remember what happened two weeks earlier, let alone what happened a decade and a half back.

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

I have been forgetting things for years - at least since I was in my 30s. I know this because I wrote something about it at the time; I have proof. Of course I can't remember exactly where I wrote about it or when, but I could probably hunt it up if I had to.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'

I don't forget nothing. It's a vault up here.