Quotes About Memory

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

'The Next Ten Minutes' from 'The Last Five Years' is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

We all go to our grave thinking that we will never be forgotten, and we are forgotten ten minutes later.

The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.

I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away in 1984. I wanted to honor him and his name.

I haven't dated anyone in the ten years since we lost Steve just because I feel a connection still with Steve.

Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.

When you stop playing for a while, people tend to forget about you.

If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

We have a tendency in Quebec - and I include myself in this - to describe ourselves using the past. We're always nostalgic.

I mean it's always good to document your history. 'Cos for some strange reason black history has a tendency of getting lost. So I think it's beautiful to have the ability to document it.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way.

You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.

A lot of times when I'm performing a song, it tends to take me back to where I was psychologically as the lyric was being written.

Moving and motion tends to make things pop up. But things pop up for me, really, at just odd intervals or at random times that aren't really convenient, so I'm a big fan of the voice memo recorder on my phone. That's the only way I can remember things.

The majority of people don't even realise I was a tennis player. The older you get, the less people remember what you did before.

In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.

The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.

We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In the Middle Ages, the term 'genius' was reserved for people with the best memories. That is telling.

Short term memory is not good.

I've been around a long time, and I've been interested in memory for a long time. And one of my earlier interests in molecular biology of memory led me to define the switch that converts short term to long term memory.

If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory into long term memory.

Every president, as he nears the end of his final term in office, thinks about his place in history.