Quotes About Memory

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

I went to Catholic school growing up. I can barely remember any prayers or anything!

The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.

I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.

Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.

When 'The Kid' made its premiere I was so young I fell asleep and never saw the movie.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state.

People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

I will always remember the fear in the faces of the executed. That's the first day I felt the devil's presence.

And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

I kissed John Updike as he presented me with an award. It wasn't the best kiss as far as kisses go, but I hold the fact that I kissed John Updike, that he kissed me, very close to my heart.

I guess the idea of doing albums in their entirety, in sequence, appeals to people. I guess it's the memory of being able to hear the music in the way it was originally presented.

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.