Quotes About Memory

When you're on TV, you're looking at a half-page of material, trying to memorize it really quickly. By the time it's on TV, I've already forgotten what I said, but I can still recite my whole role from Shakespeare in the Park. It works a different set of muscles.

It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language.

I always bump into people that Ive met. Not great friends, but if I bump into somebody Ive known and I wont recognise them. It can be embarrassing at times.

I wanted to honor the memory of my father, who was a great opera singer and died very young, without knowing my success. As I inherited his voice, it is in recognition of that heritage.

I'm very, very happy with my recognition/lack of recognition in England in terms of my life. In terms of household name-age. The public's memory is very short, luckily.

I don't even know who that person was in the '80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don't even recognize myself.

I never know why people come up to me. I think a lot of them just get super-excited because they recognize me from TV but they don't remember where.

People recognize me, but they don't know where from. Today I was in the elevator and somebody asked me if I worked for his company.

I like individual scents on a girl, so you always recognize her and you keep her separate from other people in your head. I really love Egyptian musk. I've even gone to the mall and sprayed perfumes and just smelled them. I'm creepy. So creepy.

People recognize me, but I get a lot of, 'Didn't I go to camp with you?'

My great frustration is that, more and more, my memories come and go, and friends all my life are not recognized. Many of the things I say and do, I can no longer remember even right afterwards.

I can't remember if I got recognized at Disneyland. I probably did a couple of times as well, but I can't remember.

Since I was a schoolboy, I've been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.

Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special.

I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

One can never be sure whether a very early memory is a real memory or just the recollection of something which you were told happened.

The Carrion Crow and Turkey-Buzzard possess great power of recollection, so as to recognise at a great distance a person who has shot at them, and even the horse on which he rides.

People need to trust what gardai say on the stand, and I can understand that perhaps in a scenario whereby lots of things are happening quickly and people are caught up in the heat of the moment, they may have a recollection that isn't exactly as things happened.

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

I have always been honest about my recollection of events.

I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.

'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I competed in 2006, I set a new U.S. record by memorizing a deck of cards in one minute and 40 seconds. That record has since fallen.