Quotes About Memory

I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground.

Each time someone dies, a library burns.

Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye.

I lose things all the time. I used to lose my license all the time before I put a place in my car for it.

The thing that attracted me to my husband was his pride. I'll never forget the first time I saw him, standing up on a hill, his hair blowing in the breeze - and he too proud to run and get it.

We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.

There are certain times when a certain person says something to me, that will stick with me for a really long time. But I don't remember one person being my idol, or anything like that.

He tries to peel the image from the sticky yellow backing, to show her the next time he sees her, but it clings stubbornly, refusing to detach cleanly from the past.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11.

I love the puzzled look on people's faces when I mention I grew up telling time according to television.

I can't explain why I don't read comments. Maybe because I worked at Time for so long and they don't have them, so I keep forgetting that they're there.

The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.

When people quote sketches to me, half the time I don't know what they're talking about so I have to sort of go, aha, yes, oh yep, I remember that and lie my way out of it.

A sketch will not serve more than one state of mind & will not serve to drink at again & again — in a sketch there is nothing but the one state of mind — that which you were in at the time.

But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working.

Time is hastening on, and we What our fathers are shall be,-- Shadow-shapes of memory! Joined to that vast multitude Where the great are but the good.

Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!"

The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

Books are a time machine.

Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.