George W. Bush Quotes

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

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

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.

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

He hasn't said whether he remembers the episode itself - or, if he doesn't, whether that is because it never happened or because it happened too often to keep track. More important, he hasn't said what he thinks about it all from the perspective of 2003.

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.

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

My memory's pretty much gone.

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

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

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.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

I have a great memory.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

I don’t remember.

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

You don't just forget things overnight.

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.

Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.

Not only is the past of a person with no memory inaccessible; his ability to think about the future is imperilled. Time travel, then, is ultimately - and paradoxically - an exercise in remembering. And without that capacity it simply cannot exist.

It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.

"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.