David Cross Quotes

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

It alarms me to think of all that I have read and how little of it has stayed with me.

I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.

I have a great memory.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

Over time, I've paid attention, taken notes and forgotten easily half of everything I've gone through.

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.

I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

My memory's bad!

I'm, like, really bad at remembering names.

I had a memory span about as long as the lines in a school play.

I fortunately have a good memor, and that helps a lot in the way I write.

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

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

I'm one of those weird people that tends to not do the extras and listen to the commentaries and stuff on movies, although I do think they are fascinating and interesting - I'm just so worried that years later I wouldn't remember anything!

People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.

I am terrible with people's names.

Memory enhancement self-help programs abound and promise improved memory performance by the utilization of any number of seemingly unique techniques focused on the context of how information is encoded.

Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.

I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

President Reagan doesn't retain very much of what comes his way on a given day.