“I have been forgetting things for years—at least since I was in my thirties. I know this because I wrote something about it at the time. I have proof. Of course, I can’t remember exactly where I wrote about it, or when, but I could probably hunt it up if I had to.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“I am living in the Google years, no question of that. And there are advantages to it. When you forget something, you can whip out your iPhone and go to Google. The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling t…”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“You might look at me and say, Hey, there's a happy kid; a little hyper, a little rambunctious, but happy all the same. And so there I was, humming along, when suddenly Dorothy would pop up out of the blue, snatch me up, and take me along on one of her lost weekends.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“I've tried to put the pieces together. I wish I could prove it by trotting out blood tests, but I can't. All I can do is tell you the story I believe, the one I've heard from people who were there and should know.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“I was as curious as the devil. Couldn't have been older than sixteen months when I started wandering out of the house by myself. I was a handful. Had to be kept on a short leash.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“I remember Mama poured me milk and tried to show me how to drink from a cup, but I wouldn't wait. I didn't want to be shown anything. I took the cup and spilled the milk all over me.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“Cozie and James also noticed my musical nature when I was still an infant. They said I was fixated on jukeboxes. I'd toddle over and point to one particular song -- "Honky Tonk Train Blues" by Meade Lux Lewis, a hot boogie-woogie instrumental. I'd holler until someone put a nickel in the box and pla…”— Etta James, amazon.com
“Sounds weird, but I have memory flashes of being slipped into bureaus, where I'd pick up my little head and peek out to survey the scene. I've always been a peeker, eager to check out the world.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”— Karl Lagerfeld, nytimes.com
“There was a time I was everything and nothing all in one When you found me I was feeling like a cloud across the sun”— John Coltrane, open.spotify.com
“In love's smoldering ember One spark may remain If love still can remember That spark may burn again”— John Coltrane, open.spotify.com
“That is a terribly hard thing. I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things, because here's the loved one—this is the woman or man that you have loved for 20, 30, 40 years, and suddenly that person is gone. They're gone. They are gone. So what he says basically is correct, but—I know it so…”— Pat Robertson, slate.com
“I love you but I don’t desire to fight against destiny. From time to time I will enjoy your memory, which will continuously alter me.”— Mario Benedetti, amazon.com
“My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.”— Georgia O’Keeffe, goodreads.com
“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds – but I think of you always in those intervals.”— Salvador Plascencia, amazon.com
“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love and I’ve memorized that too.”— Charles Bukowski, bukowskiquotes.com