“I’m a psychic amnesiac. I know in advance what I’ll forget.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
" http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/TapeTranscripts/Q265.html" FBI No. Q265 (17 October 1978)
“I’m a psychic amnesiac. I know in advance what I’ll forget.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Guide for Those Wishing to Marry (1885)
“When you go to prison they forget it's your Constitution, too.”
Jimmy Hoffa (1913–1982) American labor leader
Source: Hoffa The Real Story (1975), Chapter 12, Convict, p. 187
“When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.”
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow (1731–1806) British lawyer and Tory politician
27 Parliamentary History, 680; Annual Register, 1789. Wilkes is reported to have replied, somewhat coarsely, but not unhappily it must be allowed, "Forget you! He ’ll see you damned first". Edmund Burke also exclaimed, "The best thing that could happen to you!" —Henry Peter, Lord Brougham, Statesmen of the Time of George III (Thurlow).
“My first wife, I'll never forget her — and I've tried.”
Redd Foxx (1922–1991) American comedian and actor
Stage performance on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QoyQwfarn0
Buddy Wakefield (1974) American poet
"Gahndi’s Autobiography"
Poetry
Indra Nooyi (1955) Indian-born, naturalized American, business executive
Quoted in "Sun Tzu for Women: The Art of War for Winning in Business" in page=113.
“I guess I’ll do what everyone else does: get on with my life and forget the big questions.”
Alastair Reynolds book Century Rain
Source: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 41 (p. 606)
“And dare love that, and say so too,
And forget the He and She.”
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
The Undertaking, stanza 5