Emily Berrington Quotes

My memory's pretty much gone.

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

We have all forgot more than we remember.

You don't just forget things overnight.

My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

Short term memory is not good.

I've always been forgetful.

I really started to forget things. That's why I quit reciting statistics: because I couldn't remember them exactly, and I stayed away from mentioning some players by name because I really wasn't sure, and I didn't want to make a mistake.

My memory's not too good.

As you get older, you worry about your memory.

I've got a short memory span.

My memory is not that good anymore.

My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember.

The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up.

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

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.

My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.

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

Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don't have to remember everyone's number anymore, but that really wasn't a core part of my brain.

The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.

If we should remember everything we would be as worse off as if we remembered nothing.