75 Memo Quotes

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Famous Memo Quotes

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

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. - Dean Acheson

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. — Edgar Allan Poe

Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self. — Damian Conway

Memory is the scribe of the soul. — Aristotle

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. - Gore Vidal

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. — Gore Vidal

Remembrance of things past. — William Shakespeare

(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation. — Julio Cortazar

Memory is more indelible than ink. — Anita Loos

Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two — Hugh B. Brown

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember — Jimmy Hoffa

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved. — Thomas Fuller

Reminisce about the little episodes that we shared together — Shing02

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs. — Will Rogers

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever. — Will Self

Short Memo Quotes

  • This supposed to be yall year? We aint get the memo. — Drake
  • What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos. — Jane Mayer
  • God isn't waiting on our memo. He is waiting on us to focus enough on Him that we get His memo. — Louie Giglio
  • Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy. — Karl Rove
  • I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas. — Ted Leo
  • Charonte are guarding a Dimme? Is the world coming to an end and I missed the memo? (Stryker) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo. — Howard Rheingold

Memo Image Quotes

Finding Nemo Quotes

They do it in Thai restaurants in London. You ask for a drink, and it comes in a glass with loads of seaweed and pebbles in it like a scene from Finding Nemo. — Karl Pilkington

Lighting is vital. Without that they've got nothing. And, of course, color and texture. When they showed me a little piece of Finding Nemo, I said this has got to be the biggest hit. — Joe Grant

Swimmin in the money come and find me, NEMO. — Drake

I feel very vulnerable when it has to do with family. Having lost my mom, who I was so extremely close to, now I feel so vulnerable when somebody gets sick or hurt. I become a complete wreck until they're well. Even if it's a cold! I compare myself to Marlin in Finding Nemo. — Nancy O'Dell

From SpongeBob to Finding Nemo ... I'm still trying to decide which one I like more. — Kevin Federline

Sometimes I'm like Dory from Finding Nemo. I can't remember facts. — Justin Bieber

I have a small child. Being a parent takes a lot of time. People always ask me, "What movies have you watched lately?" I tell them, "Finding 'Nemo' ... 'Shrek'. — Clint Eastwood

Don't knock finding nemo," Xavier teased, taking the DVD from my grasp. "It's a modern classic." "Is it seriously about fish?" "Yeah, but really cool fish. — Alexandra Adornetto

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More Memo Quotes

One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports. — John P. Kotter

And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end. — Bobby Ray Inman

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know? — Ron Reagan

The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.' — Harold H. Greene

The #Bitcoin ETF is the MEMO. Most people don’t understand how significant the ETFs are in terms of marketing and branding. They will bring a flood of capital, but equally important is the message or memo that’s being sent out. — Samson Mow

If solar and wind are actually cheaper, why is China overwhelmingly using coal? Did they not get the memo. Did they not read the Lazard study? No, they know the Lazard study is trash. — Alex Epstein

If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos. — Prince Charles

The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an annual report or they give a little video speech that gets sent around the company, they think that's what's really going to affect employees. — Lou Gerstner

When I see memos from Howard Marks in my mail, they're the first thing I open and read. I always learn something. — Warren Buffett

Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. 100 years from now your hands will rot like dust in your grave. You have to make wonderful use of those hands now. Kiss your hands so they can make magic. — James Altucher

Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails. — Felix Dennis

Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything. — Anne Rice

Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a media that has been manipulated, intimidated, bullied by an administration that has taken it to a high level. . lapdog news media. — Frank Rich

As his other hand began to slip around her waist, his body brushed against hers, and there was no mistaking the thick, hard ridge grazing her jean-clad bottom. Heavens, did that thing never subside? The rest of him might be mortal, but his immortal erection certainly didn't scan to have gotten the memo. — Karen Marie Moning

Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: "Learn, guys..." — Neil Gaiman

Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage. — David Brooks

The key to leadership is having a vision, and being strong enough to say no and not try to please everybody. Thats a recipe for failure. Leadership is practiced through attitude and actions, rather than words and memos. — Matt Mickiewicz

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends? — Walter Kirn

You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo. — Seth Godin

Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not. — Trey Gowdy

If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos. — Prince Of Wales Charles

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom. Let them do what they are best at. While we scrawl interoffice memos and direct national or extranational affairs, men could spend all their time inventing wheels, peering at stars, composing poems, carving statues, exploring continents -- discovering, reforming, or crying out in a sacramental wilderness. Efficiency would probably increase, and no one would have to worry so much about the Gaza Strip or an election. — Phyllis Mcginley

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it. — Michael Chabon

The first songs I made brought me to the Grammys. I was a five-times nominated teenager off voice memos and songs that were clearly recorded off different mics. — Khalid

What disturbed me most, frankly, about the Rod Rosenstein memo, is the fact it was addressed to the attorney general. The attorney general was supposed to have recused himself from anything involving Russia. And here he is recommending the firing of the top cop doing the Russia investigation, in clear violation of what he had, the attorney general, had committed to doing. — Adam Schiff

I can document this past week [of presidency] we've put out memos from every agency showing what did we do. Try to be as honest as possible. There's a little hype involved obviously. It's spin because it's our agencies. We feel some pride about it. But tried to be self-critical as well. — Barack Obama

That information, those 6,000 pages, should be released to the public. It's our right as U.S. citizens to know what our government has done in our name just as I think that these memos about the U.S. of drones should be released to the public. — Medea Benjamin

I do think - you look at actually what WikiLeaks came out with, most of it was just gossipy interest, except for like this Doug Band memo from a Clinton crony in black and white who explained the Clinton Foundation was a profit center for Bill Clinton and people around him.The Russians didn't make that up, that was all Hillary's [Clinton] vulnerability her own. — Rich Lowry

There's a fantastic, thousand-page book by David Thomson about [David O. Selznick]. Again, it's not the best argument or the best advertisement for his story, because most people aren't going to read a thousand-page book. But I feel like the rise and fall and the work [Mayer] produced - not just the movies, but the memos, the volume of writing - he's just so passionate, and that's really exciting. — Karina Longworth

20-some years ago, I'd have a big old radio with a tape deck, and I'd hit record and try to get something down on the tape, but nowadays, I can use my handy little smart-phone; I sing into the app for voice memo. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

I think my wife puts up with me 'cause I try. I think that's all any guy can do is just try. That's right! 'Cause we ain't never gunna get it. 'Cause as soon as we get close you ladies change it. It's like this memo goes out, 'they're getting close, change it, change it!' — Bill Engvall

I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess. — Lorrie Moore

I've been a musician since I was nine. I think a ghost or goblin visited me in the night. Maybe aliens abducted me, or a divine figure sent me a spiritual memo. Who knows. — Alan Cohen

I went to law school which is a 3-year program in the US that is focused primarily on memorizing certain doctrines and taking exams that test whether you can apply those doctrines to help prepare for the bar exam. If you are lucky, you get a few classes where you are encouraged to think more critically and read critical texts rather than just casebooks, and perhaps write a paper that is not a legal memo or brief. — Dean Spade

President Bush insisted that there was nothing in the August 6th, 2001 briefing, which was titled 'Bin Laden determined to attack the United States', that hinted what bin Laden was up to. Bush says that he would have moved mountains to stop the attack. Yeah, but he draws the line at reading a memo. — David Letterman

CIA Director George Tenet has now testified before the 9/11 commission and he said we are still making the same dumb mistakes, like leaving memos on the President's desk. — David Letterman

Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work. — Jilly Cooper

The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo. — Jilly Cooper

With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later. — Ryan Tedder

I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any. — Dick Cheney

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