Short Memory Quotes:

You have to have a short memory as a closer.

- Frank Robinson

topic: Memories, Short Memory

It's good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh.

- Mark Bittman

source: "'Spain... on the road Again' ('A Sultan’s View of Andalucía')". TV show, November 08, 2008.

topic: Memories, Short Memory

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

- Mike Colter

topic: Memories, History Repeats Itself, Short Memory, Repeating History

The most identifiable trait of Anglo-Saxons is that we always mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

- Argus Hamilton

topic: Memories, Mistake, Short Memory, Clear Conscience

White Americans have a short memory.

- Sherman Alexie

topic: Memories, White, Short Memory

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Happiness, Inspiring, Memories, Short Memory

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

- Cesare Pavese

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Special Moments, Best Memories

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

- Doug Larson

topic: Memories, Mistake, Media, Short Memory, Clear Conscience

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Memories, Philosophical, Diaries, Memory Lane, Memory Of Someone

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

- Jeremy Irons

topic: Inspirational, Life, Dream, Time Machine, Intelligent Machines

You never know when you're making a memory.

- Rickie Lee Jones

source: Song: Young Blood, 1990

topic: Memories, Short Memory, Incurable Disease

Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.

- Corrie Ten Boom

topic: Memories, Past, Keys, Happy Memories, Old Memories

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

topic: Freedom, Memories, Political, Short Memory

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

- Will Rogers

source: Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

topic: Memories, Office, Voting, American Voters, Short Memory

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

- Aeschylus

topic: Missing You, Pain, Memories, Joy And Grief, Beautiful Memories

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Memories, Mindfulness, Unnoticed, Homecoming, Short Memory

You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business -- along with the short memory of our readers.

- Steve Forbes

topic: Memories, Advice, Magazines, Short Memory

Originality is for people with short memories

- Grayson Perry

topic: Memories, People, Originality, Short Memory

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Inspirational, Life, Memories, Death Memorial, Our Memories

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.100, Lulu.com

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Yesterday And Tomorrow, Timelessness

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Honesty, Memories, Liars, Lies And Liars, Being Lied

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

- Edward de Bono

topic: Memories, Doe, Best Memories, Mind Opening, Sweet Memories

The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions. I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again.

- Willa Cather

topic: Memories, Reality, Years, Best Memories, Old Memories

Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.

- Stanislas de Boufflers

topic: Memories, Flower, Remembrance, Homecoming, Lasting Memories

Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.

- Robert Jackson Bennett

source: Robert Jackson Bennett (2014). “City of Stairs”, p.42, Broadway Books

topic: Memories, Might, Voters, Short Memory

I have a good memory for certain things. And a very short memory for painful things - that's my favorite Martha Stewart quote, by the way.

- Reese Witherspoon

source: Vogue magazine Interview, November 2008.

topic: Memories, Way, Painful, Painful Things, Short Memory

I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!

- Diane Lane

topic: Memories, Thinking, People, Short Memory

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

- Saul Bellow

source: SAUL BELLOW (1971). “MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET”

topic: Memories, Doors, Needs, Happy Memories, Old Memories

Have a short memory and a lot of forgiveness. Especially us girls who don't forget a thing. Move on ...

- Gabrielle Reece

topic: Girl, Memories, Moving, Love Advice, Short Memory

Physicists, being in no way different from the rest of the population, have short memories for what is inconvenient.

- Anthony Standen

source: Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”

topic: Memories, Population, Different, Short Memory

If you’re a black Christian, you have a real short memory.

- Chris Rock

topic: Christian, Memories, Real, Short Memory

It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.

- Buzz Aldrin

topic: Memories, Moon, Impact, Stalemate, Short Memory

Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it's hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination.

- Ron Fournier

topic: Memories, Alaska, Names, Short Memory

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Memories, Hero, Names, Memorial Day Heroes, Memorial Day Messages

I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.

- Lindsey Vonn

topic: Memories, Racing, Needs, Short Memory, Ski Racing

Investors have very short memories

- Roman Abramovich

topic: Memories, Investing, Saving, Short Memory, Financial Success

We have populations now in the West with a very short memory span. One reason for this short memory span is that television over the last fifteen years has seen a big decline in the coverage of the rest of the world.

- Tariq Ali

source: Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

topic: Memories, Years, Population, Short Memory

I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.

- Aubrey McClendon

topic: Memories, Thinking, Keys, Thick Skin, Short Memory

You need a fantastic memory in this game to remember the great shots and a very short memory to forget the bad ones.

- Mac O'Grady

topic: Memories, Golf, Games, Short Memory