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Invention and memory are so close together in the place they occupy in my brain. Jennifer Egan

Together Memory Invention Occupy Brain Close Place

Shanghai, the city where I was born and spent my first four and a half years. It's not necessarily the most pleasant or most comforting place, but I have blood memory there, my core was formed there, so I need to go back often, or else I become empty, lost, without meaning. Jenny Zhang

Memory Comforting First Half Become Lost Else Pleasant Back Spent City Born Shanghai Most Half Years Empty Without Go Years Blood Often Where Place Formed Meaning Four Necessarily Need Core

The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the sort. But the record that got me was a record by Derek Sampson, who was a young guy, called 'Boogie Express,' and it was boogie-woogie. Really, it was on fire, and that got me. Jerry Leiber

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is. Jerry Saltz

Food Memory Thinking Secret Lies Steak Knowing Taste The Secret Of Then

Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be. Jim Bolger

Memory Think Everybody Settled Rapidly Unprecedented Some Date Reminder Looks Issues Very May Move Public Might Therefore Earlier

I have a photographic memory for numbers. Jim Irsay

Memory Photographic Numbers

I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again. Jim Jarmusch

Short term memory is not good. Jim McMahon

Good Memory Term Short Short-Term

Sure I do a lot of jokes about Anne Frank. But when you do those jokes, it makes people remember what happened to her. That process of bringing her story back doesn't have to be a serious one. What I say is all nonsense, but it helps to keep her memory alive. Joan Rivers

You Jokes Memory People Remember Back Say Frank Those Alive About Anne Sure Makes Nonsense Lot Happened Process Story Helps Serious Keep Her Bringing

There are essentially two main reasons to hold a phone up at a show. First, to capture a memory for yourself, a reminder of the moment you're enjoying. And second, to share that moment with someone - to express your emotions socially. Both seem perfectly legitimate to me. John Battelle

Me You Memory Yourself Emotions Phone First Seem Someone Both Main Share Perfectly Reminder Up Essentially Legitimate Hold Your Show Moment Reasons Capture Express Socially Enjoying Second Two

A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it will lead you on to see. Following up its logic in order to check its accuracy, you find confirmation or denial in the object itself or in your memory of it. John Berger

You Memory Denial Will Seen Important Find Logic See Object Following Records Area Lead Check Because Line Up Itself Accuracy Order Confirmation Really Your Tone

I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic. John Boyne

Hope Time Myself Memory Book Passion Become Every Think Lasting Second-Rate Hundreds Find See Classic Seem Only Could Merely Disappointed Feel Look Occasionally Read Does Which Again Titles Much Across Appear Novel Mediocre

I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty. John Burdett

You Memory People Past Few Back Those India Find Total About Generations Countries Like Talking Go Discovered Thailand Where Commonplace Used Lanka Certainty Lives Earlier

No amount of time will weaken our allegiance to avenging those lost in the horrible attacks. America has a sharp memory, a firm resolve, and a commitment to her own. John Doolittle

Time Memory Commitment Will Lost Own Resolve Our Those Weaken Horrible Allegiance Attacks Firm Sharp America Her Amount

I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and that put me in a coma for a few months. It took me four years to get my memory back. John Lydon

Me Memory Few Young Sickly Took Back Months Attack Life-Threatening Had Put Boy Years Very Get Died Nearly Four

When the enemies' land force is once conquered and expelled from the continent, our Marine will rise as if by enchantment and become, within the memory of persons now living, the wonder and envy of the world. John Paul Jones

When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory as if I had thought of it myself. It was a clear sign that I wanted to be involved in writing, even if it was just pretend at that point. Jonathan Dee

Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembrance. We cannot bring the dead back to life, but we can bring their memory back to life and ensure they are not forgotten. We can undertake in our lives to do what they were so cruelly prevented from doing in theirs. Jonathan Sacks

Life Day Memory Back Our Our Lives Ensure Focal We Cannot Focal Point Vital Point Remembrance Calendar Dead Undertake Doing Were Providing Forgotten Cannot Us Lives Bring Jewish

The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity. Jonathan Safran Foer

Dignity Memory Book Law Radical Living Our Our Lives Embarking Ancient Torah Telling Give Perennial Attempt Empathy Merely Text Human Being Story Act Foundational Lives Here Jewish

Observation is an old man's memory. Jonathan Swift

Man Memory Old Observation

My dad is never far from my thoughts. A place, a game, an incident somewhere or an unexpected word from someone can trigger a memory, which then triggers another, and suddenly I'm thinking about him, if only for a minute or two. Jonny Bairstow

Thoughts Game Memory Word Somewhere Thinking Trigger Triggers Minute About Someone Only Never Him Another Unexpected Place Which Far Then Incident Dad Suddenly Two

Attention to detail - Sherlock certainly has that, and my memory is pretty good - but not as good as his. Jonny Lee Miller

Good Memory Detail Pretty Pretty Good Attention Sherlock His Certainly

In teaching, regard must be had to the faculties possessed by the pupil. In childhood, memory; in youth, the understanding; in mature life, the reason is the predominating faculty. Joseph P. Bradley

Life Youth Memory Understanding Possessed Pupil Must Faculties Faculty Had Mature Childhood Regard Teaching Reason

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