Quotes About Memory

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people.

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

Because I was newly pregnant, I was sick as a dog, yet I knew all my lines from a year before.

The big thing for me is to make films that you feel, whether you feel happy, whether you feel sad, whether you feel sick; it's to make the audience feel so that the next day they remember what they saw.

My first go at drinking did not go so well. I ended up getting sick in front of everybody. You know that Ginuwine song 'Pony'? It was playing at the party while I was getting sick. My entire senior year, everyone sang that around me. For a year. I would like that erased from my memory.

As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.

I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a really good memory.

When I was 4 years old I used to draw on the sidewalk with broken brick.

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

I believe in love at first sight and hindsight.

When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory as if I had thought of it myself. It was a clear sign that I wanted to be involved in writing, even if it was just pretend at that point.

When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.

They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.

My grandmother always used to wear this English perfume called Tuberose and then she died and then I dated this girl who wore the same thing. Every time I hung out with her, I could only think of my recently deceased grandmother. So sometimes a signature scent can be good and sometimes it can be bad.

I still remember the moment I signed 'Viswaroopam.' And I will never forget it.

If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.

Sometimes I wake up and I think, where did my memory go? But at the same time, I signed up for it. Football has been like that for a long time, for ages.

As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.

I lived a significant portion of my life before the Internet and smart phones.

Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.

We now know that we imprint information during the day. We sort of - that seed is planted there within the brain during the day. In other words, we learn information. But we also know that that vision that was planted in the brain still remains in the sound of silence, in this - in the dark of night.