Quotes About Memory

Our entire linear and accumulative culture collapses if we cannot stockpile the past in plain view.

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green Towering over your head Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes And she's gone

Lying – remembering beauty in truth.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there's nobody left.

No actor ever forgets a role, so I should have realized something was wrong.

I have never liked the memoir form because I tend to think that memory fictionalizes anyway. Once you claim that you are writing a narrative purely from memory, you are already in the realm of fiction.

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.

One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.

And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

To see you naked is to recall the Earth.

I just have pretty good recall of information.

There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I'm quite sure I will share the same fate.

My police record says I went to Panama City, but I don't recall it.

Every little job becomes a dream, and you don't recall it anymore, and maybe you might have a deja vu moment, but it's like something you dreamed earlier.

Scientists have discovered that, as we age, our brains act like computers with fuller and fuller hard drives. So when we're trying to recall a fact or a word or a name, it takes us longer, because - to put it scientifically - our brains hold a lot of 'stuff.'

I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.

15 minutes will open up the amnesia and you'll have full recall.

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

I've actually got quite a good memory. I've good recall. It's often things which other people might not notice.

Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.