Ray Bradbury Quotes

I remember practically every joke I've ever heard in my life.

It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.

We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known.

And never forget, there is memory.

What you remember saves you.

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

I'm surprised by how much I remember.

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

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

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else.

I don't remember the first stunt I ever did.

I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the stand-up movement in this country is phenomenal. It's like rock n' roll here. Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.

Memories are doing funny things to us.

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

I have a great memory.

Comedy is a shared experience, and I think it's great to open that to a wide demographic.

I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.

I've always been able to recount things, and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that.