Quotes About Memory

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

I was 5 years old when the stock market crashed; I lost everything.

I have no idea what stocks I held in the '90s, in the 2000s, or even now.

As a movie fan, I remember Quentin Tarantino and Lawrence Bender and the sort of energy around 'Reservoir Dogs,' and the jump from 'Reservoir Dogs' to 'Pulp Fiction,' and how everybody was stoked on Quentin's career.

It's much more interesting for me to think that taking a chunk of experience and mushing it up together with other things that are inventible, remembered from some other time or stolen from other people's stories... and see if I can make it into something that works, an object, a little machine that runs.

I saw 'Tootsie' with Jessica Lange when I was eight or nine. I remember feeling something in my stomach. I didn't know what it was, but I wanted to watch that movie over and over again.

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone.

You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

If somebody says, 'Do you remember the first time you heard a Rolling Stones song?' if you say you do, you're crazy. You've just always heard them. You might remember the first time it impacted you, but the first time you heard one, you were in a cradle.

But I can remember very clearly the session for My Generation. I can remember very clearly You Really Got Me and Wont Get Fooled Again, and lots of Stones stuff.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.

The only autograph I ever got, which I do not have anymore, was Matthew Fox when he was on 'Party Of Five.' I was in high school, and he came to our local amusement park, and I stood in line and got an autograph.

The girl I took to the prom was 5-4. When we slow-danced, she stood on a chair.

I had an imaginary friend. I don't know when I stopped having an imaginary friend, but my mom and everybody in my family remembers it pretty good. It's definitely true.

One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.

The only gift my dad ever bought me is still in my jewelry box. It died at 10 minutes to 11 decades ago, but the gold Caravelle watch keeps my dad alive. A watch isn't about keeping time. It's about stopping it.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's.

I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individual. I think it's the same thing for a country.