Alexander Chase Quotes

I have a great memory.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

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

Why is it that I can remember so easily the lyrics to the opening theme song of 'Gilligan's Island?' Why do I remember these trivial things, and I can't remember the names of important collaborators?

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

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

People sometimes forget when you remember, but they always remember when you forget.

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

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.

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

We have all forgot more than we remember.

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 feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.