Dave Barry Quotes

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

If I ever tell the same story twice, just laugh and roll with it because, when you get older, you start doing that kind of stuff.

My memory is not that good anymore.

...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

I have lost my short-term memory - I'm just getting blonder by the day.

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

My great frustration is that, more and more, my memories come and go, and friends all my life are not recognized. Many of the things I say and do, I can no longer remember even right afterwards.

When you become senile, you won't know it.

My memory's not too good.

I'm not as sharp as I used to be.

My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."

Hey, if you can't remember, don't worry about it. I'm having a few memory problems myself in this place. Little things like how long I've been here, what my purpose in life is, which feet to put my shoes on. Stuff like that.

The use it and lose it problem is pervasive, affecting more than 40,000 Californians a year.

My memory - faded, as I say - is that Paul Johnson was trying to vilify all intellectuals who were at all critical of the states he worships, and of power generally (except, of course, the power of enemies, which we must denounce, imitating the commissars who are his models, though he doesn't understand it).

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

Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.

I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.

There are a lot of times when I walk into a room and forget why I walked in there. I'm going through some studies right now, and I am going to do a brain scan.

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

My memory's pretty much gone.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40.