Quotes About Memory

When I'm acting, I just come up with people I've known, and I stick with it.

If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in.

It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet, everyone decided everything should stick around forever.

Some images stick with you forever, images that you can't unsee.

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

If you get somebody laughing - and then stick in a point about something important - they'll remember it.

When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.

My Dad was such an incredible person, and you have the option of just curling up in a dark corner and letting it all go or you have the option of standing strong, sticking together and carrying on what he lived and died for. And I think that's what's so important - to be able to carry on where he left off.

I can understand pulling a book whose contents have been questioned - after all, false information has a way of sticking in your brain and seeming true when you go to retrieve it years later.

If something makes me laugh really hard, it sticks in my head or my heart or somewhere inside me.

Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.

When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

There was never any butter in our home. Just margarine. My parents acted like butter was lethal. I don't think I ever saw either one have a piece of butter. I would go over to friends' houses and down sticks of butter.

I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.

For some reason or another, 'Richard Diamond, Private Eye,' still sticks out in my mind. I don't think I particularly liked that show, but for some reason, he sticks in my mind.

You don't forget any time you play for a championship and you don't win it. It's just something that sticks with you.

Everything I do, it sticks. I move on to a different hobby, but I don't forget about them. I don't drop anything.

Even if the flower is no more, still, the fragrance can be.

The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

Smell is stimulating. It stirs things up and makes us nostalgic - a wonderful word which literally means 'ache for home' - which serves to inspire new circuits in the brain.

There's something strange - not in a bad way - about going back to where you grew up or recreating where you grew up. It's strange and stimulating.

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.