Nora Ephron Quotes

I've always been forgetful.

As you get older, you worry about your memory.

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

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

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

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 get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'

You don't just forget things overnight.

My memory is not that good anymore.

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.

I have always been a little bit forgetful.

I can remember much forgetfulness.

Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

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.

Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!

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.

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

I am terrible with people's names.

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