Quotes About Recall

What is the answer, Evan? Ms Granger asked. Giraffe, I wanted to answer. It was on the tip of my tongue. Giraffe. This was in math class

I recalled the words of Yeshua to simply be a witness to what I knew.

I could remember a half-dozen incidents in which I'd come much closer to death, but I could never recall any past moronic stunt that filled me so completely with disgust.

Maybe all art is such a re-call, a call beyond the grave.

My favorite book title ever is Ross Thomas' THE FOOLS IN TOWN ARE ON OUR SIDE. Good book too as I recall read it a long time ago but Ross Thomas is consistently good.

Loss bites and pulls. It is a thing of hooks sunk into every part of you, parts that you would not think could feel loss like thumbs and lips, hooks moored to wind and memory so that slightest disturbance, the slightest act of recall, tugs at those fine lines. Red is the colour of loss and its smell is like burned roses.

El mentiroso tiene mala memoria.

Our perceptions about life are like a messaging feed. The flow creates a meaningful lifeline you can relate to, not just recall. Every action is like a post. It becomes a memory for future reference, that you may choose to share with others if you wish to help them learn.

Then he recalled whose daughter she was, and wondered why he wondered. Then he recalled who it was who had a child. A child, Noirot had a child!

Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??

I remember all of the day's misinformation very clearly, and I also remember this, and wish I did not: I remember that no one was surprised.

They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.

The point was simply this: the most important thing we could never forget was that we could never forget.

Noting that it would be a long trial, with many witnesses, I recall the old Chinese proverb, "The palest ink is better than the best memory," urging the jury to take detailed notes to aid them in their deliberations.

All officials, without exception, elected and subject to recall at any time, their salaries reduced to the level of ordinary "workmen's wages" — these simple and "self-evident" democratic measures, while completely uniting the interests of the workers and the majority of the peasants, at the same time serve as a bridge leading from capitalism to socialism.

Voices Over Water" There are spirits that come back to us when we have grown into another age we recognize them just as they leave us we remember them when we cannot hear them some of them come from the bodies of birds some arrive unnoticed like forgetting they do not recall earlier lives and there are distant voices still hoping to find us

There are spirits that come back to us when we have grown into another age we recognize them just as they leave us we remember them when we cannot hear them some of them come from the bodies of birds some arrive unnoticed like forgetting they do not recall earlier lives and there are distant voices still hoping to find us — W.S. Merwin, "Voices Over Water," Garden Time . (Copper Canyon Press September 13, 2016)

Knowledge is of no use unless it is actually in your mind, so that it can be produced at a moment's notice.

eidetic memory

I'm not getting forgetful. I'm not that old. Yet first my slippers, now the door lock.

The tooth had belonged to a gentleman named Murphy from Ellis Ward, the one we lived in. I say "had belonged" because I had the badly broken and infected bicuspid out of Mr. Murphy's head before he could have said Jack Robinson, though he was in such pain that he could barely recall his own name, let alone Jack's. Mr.

as the door—we could not persuade her to enter the room again—and identify it as the cause of her distress." "I see," I said. I could envision the scene very well indeed, save for one point of paramount interest. "Do you happen to recall what he was wearing? Jamie?" Lawrence Stern looked

You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

Most people remember the ending of the book more than the beginning and the middle.