Quotes About Memory

We preserve the legacy of my father through an education approach. We award scholarships. We do classes at schools about my father's philosophy and life.

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

A photograph is a moment - when you press the button, it will never come back.

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.

I was 13 years old at music school talking to my teacher. I can't quite remember what it was I was trying to describe, but I do remember my music teacher saying to me, 'Do you have synesthesia?' In hindsight, it seems a little presumptuous of her to think a little boy in Essex would know what synesthesia was.

If I was to pretend my father didn't exist and I didn't have anything to remember him by, then it wouldn't be healthy.

'The Giver' by Lois Lowry - I had to read this in school, and I fell in love with it. It was my favorite book as a child, and I read and reread it. I would pretend I lived in that world and that Asher was my best friend.

Nothing is more embarrassing than calling someone the wrong name, but nothing is harder than trying to pretend you know someone's name when you don't.

I take a lot of notes. Maybe it's a product of me taking so many notes, but I have a pretty good memory for episodes, and some of the other actors will ask me questions about things, so I have this sense of responsibility that I have to be the one to remember some of the details.

I have a pretty good memory.

Attention to detail - Sherlock certainly has that, and my memory is pretty good - but not as good as his.

I've been dancing forever; since I remember, that's what I've been doing.

I have a really early childhood memory of being in a darkroom with Mum when I was four or five.

The image of my face I hold in my mind is always about 10 years out of date.

When you look at my father's works, he systematically dated everything. He also wanted to document what he knew would be the work of the century.

I can't remember the first time, but I've worked with supermodels almost from day one.

I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.

Those who live, live off the dead.

Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.

I grew up reading Proust all my life, and he's very dear to me.

I think it's crucial that we remember the lives of people, not their deaths. Our deaths are not our lives.