William Least Heat-Moon Quotes

About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

I have a great memory.

I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.

Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.

I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past experience on present reactions.

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

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.

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

God has given each one of us a gift greater than a thousand I.B.M. machines. It is called a memory, and everything that passes through our five senses is stored in this faculty.

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.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.

The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

Memory. My poison, my food.

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.

[...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!” “Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me.

Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

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

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