Claire Messud Quotes

Human memory is short and terribly fickle.

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.

I'm, like, really bad at remembering names.

I have a great memory.

Some people have quick retention. I'm not one of those.

I have a really bad memory, to be honest.

I have a really terrible memory.

I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.

My biggest problem is retaining the exact information.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

I have a phenomenal memory. I remember every single thing that anybody said to me, ever did to me, who was nice to me and who was not nice to me.

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

I have a terrible memory.

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.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

President Reagan doesn't retain very much of what comes his way on a given day.

I've always been forgetful.

My memory's not too good.

I have a good visual memory. I'm good with faces, but names - I get in trouble a lot; I can't seem to remember people. People think I'm rude. As a side comment, you know, I'm not being rude: I just kind of blank out.

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

I've got a short memory span.