Simon Travaglia Quotes

If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

I have a great memory.

If we should remember everything we would be as worse off as if we remembered nothing.

I've always been forgetful.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

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

I have never been able to remember the number of my driver's license, and there have been times when I couldn't even remember my own telephone number, but when I hear a song, sometimes only once, I never forget the melody or the lyric.

You don't just forget things overnight.

I just have pretty good recall of information.

Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.

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

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.

The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost again. There is no way to be sure of any this.

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

Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or seen it could not possibly remember such a fact.

I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down.

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.

Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.

I forgot to remember to forget.

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.