George Savile Quotes

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

When I do a show, I jot little notes for me to remember, and when the show is done and forgotten, I chuck them all over the car. My wife goes nuts.

He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

If I print something out, I just spend all my time trying to find where I've put it down.

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

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

I'm not a good storm-outer... because I forget stuff.

I have a great memory.

I don't make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: 'everything.' Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!

My worst habit is probably that I'm extremely messy. I'm a big scatter-brain - I'm always losing my car keys, or worse, forgetting where I parked my car in the car park.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

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

You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'

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

As you get older, you worry about your memory.

I literally forget everything, and, trust me, that's the best thing that you can have.