Quotes About Memory

But I think I'm always going to be remembered for being the daft guy who had a chance at Rangers and never took it.

One of my biggest goals is to not be remembered as just a footballer.

It's nice to be remembered.

The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than what you did last week.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and above all, that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to forgetfulness.

Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.

In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.

Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.

Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.

As long as I can keep remembering the lines and getting to the locations, I want to keep working as long as I can. I love it.

Remembering in an honest way means admitting the truth.

There's a difference between art and entertainment. Entertainment is really about forgetting about your life, and art is about remembering your life.

My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.

I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. It's crazy. A lot of times, people get in their feelings, like, 'You don't remember me?!'

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

Really, for an actor, it's all about remembering a lot of stuff - and keeping the moustache on.

The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.

I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.