Laurie Graham Quotes

I never carry a notebook while walking around London. I just pick those things up. I'm very good at quizzes.

I have a photographic memory.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.

Attention to detail - Sherlock certainly has that, and my memory is pretty good - but not as good as his.

I think very fast and visually and I have to write down an idea right away or it will be lost forever.

I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.

I remember everything I know even the most superficial things. And what comes out is in my canvases.

I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.

Why do we remember the past, but not the future?

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of wonder, beauty, and adventurous expectancy which are conveyed to me by certain sights (scenic, architectural, atmospheric, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images encountered in art and literature.

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.

Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.

We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.

The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.

I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.

I have a bad memory for facts.