Absentmindedness, Absentminded Quotes

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

I can make things, but I don't cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made noodles, but they were hard. It never occurred to me to check them; I just stopped cooking them when I felt they were ready. Really, I'm too absentminded.

I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.

I can't remember anything I ever wrote.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.

I lose stuff. I forget stuff. I walk into rooms and go, 'Why am I in here? What did I come in here for?' Is that normal? I'm 65. I don't know.

I've forgotten the birthdays of everyone close to me. I have forgotten to pay bills, file tax returns on time, go to meetings, and, every week, I forget to put the bins out. But I have never forgotten I want my lunch.

I somehow can't remember numbers, names, and faces. I forget very easily.

Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way.

His mind’s always on something else. He’d live in a ratty cardigan, and he’s always worrying holes in the pockets of his pants. He can never seem to find his wallet or anything in the refrigerator. And just when you think he’s not paying any attention to what you’re saying or doing, he comes up with exactly the right answer or solution.”", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death"“People""who expect perfection in a mate miss a lot of fun—and sweetness.", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death]

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.

I've always been forgetful.

I used to lose my keys a lot.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

I have a really terrible memory.

I always feel like I'm forgetting things.

I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.

I can never remember what I do even in the studio.

I have always been a little bit forgetful.

Out of sight, out of mind.

I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar.