Quotes About Memory

She shot him a look she thought he might still remember, the same one a rattler gives right before it strikes.

I'm not going to apologize for kissing you. I've wanted to since the first time I laid eyes on you. Only back then, I was just a boy.

I was in love with a ghost.

It was on a night like this in 1967 that he'd first seen them. The memory was too fresh. He cursed himself for letting his thoughts take that particular path. "Don't be a damned fool," he said out loud, needing to hear something, even his own voice. "They aren't out there." And yet every fiber of his being knew better. They were here again. It was his only thought as he turned and tried to run, knowing it was a fool thing to do in the dark …

He knew that this was where he belonged at this moment in time. Fate had brought him here. Brought him to this woman whom he'd never forgotten.

Good feelings spur the production of a neurotransmitter (a chemical messenger in the brain) called dopamine that controls the brain's "reward system" and helps us remember what behavior led to feeling good so we will do it again. With the help of dopamine, the brain encodes the cause-and-effect relationship, and this creates expectations for the future.

The symptomatology of PTSD. In PTSD a traumatic event is not remembered and relegated to one's past in the same way as other life events. Trauma continues to intrude with visual, auditory, and/or other somatic reality on the lives of its victims. Again and again they relieve the life-threatening experiences they suffered, reacting in mind and body as though such events were still occurring. PTSD is a complex psychobiological condition.

He that hath a satirical vein, as maketh others afraid of his wit, so he need be afraid of others' memory.

Death hath this also; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'

I first started rapping when I heard the Sugarhill Gang in 1979, when I was 11 years old in seventh grade.

When I play, I'm so in the moment that I can't really remember what happened afterwards. It's a rare experience for a thinking person like me.

It's pretty rare that I see a film that I did a long, long time ago.

Flashback in film rarely works.

There's a picture of me at 3 years old playing the baby rat in 'The Pied Piper.'

New Rave was like the 60s - if you can remember it then you weren't there.

One time I watched my sister eat a raw potato with peanut butter on it.

My grandmother was kind, but she knew what she wanted and she wasn't afraid to give a command. When, eventually, I ran my own kitchen, I realized I had a leadership model reaching back into my earliest memories.

I want the Wallwalker in the back of consumers' minds, but not actively thought about. When it returns, they'll react, 'Oh, there they are!' and they'll buy them again as impulse items.

We leap to conclusions and remember those conclusions as fact. We react on our own prejudices but don't always recognize them as such.

Ocarina of Time.' If that phrase elicits any sort of emotional reaction inside of you, then we really have something in common. When that game came out, I was just reaching the age when N64 was in its prime.

My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.

How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.