Quotes About Memory

Witnessing injustice, in person, leaves an indelible mark.

The memory of Audrey is in my innermost mind. And I don't need a foundation to commemorate her. That's perhaps a bonus, if you like.

Human beings have become so insensitive to daily life, they don't remember what happened five minutes back.

Alzheimer's is such an insidious disease.

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.

I remember seeing this picture my mother had of Dick Clark. It didn't inspire me to be an actor or anything, but when I did 'American Dreams' with Dick Clark, my mother came out, and she showed him this picture of them that was taken 35 years earlier. It was great.

I like to compare 'Instagram' to the Library of Congress.

I'm really freaked out by time. How, for instance, what I did last week is not real in the sense that it's happened. It's just a memory that's filed away in my brain.

When you score a goal by dribbling you don't remember it because it is instinctive.

Women with a higher intake of berries appeared to have delayed cognitive aging by 2.5 years. So it's like your brain is 2.5 years younger if you're eating berries.

I love the camera and I guess it's because it's been an integral part of my childhood.

Anything you loved, however intensely, becomes mortifying the moment you cease to love it.

I meet hundreds of people, and I'm not going to remember them. But every single one of them will remember their interaction with me.

The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

'Intermission' was my favourite film.

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

I was six or seven and an interpreter.

It's not that we simply get old, and memory starts to go, and sleep starts to deteriorate. But those two things actually are significantly interrelated.

I remember the day I first heard what Timbaland and Aaliyah did - that intersection of her pretty voice and his weird, resonant production. I remember where I was and what I was doing. It was a major situation. We're trying to continue that legacy.

Sunrise went straight off to take a shower. Jacaranda left and returned from across the street, where she'd picked up two half-gallons of Iglenook Chablis, and poured herself a glass of cold wine. She looked out the window and tried to remember.

say it because I believe that what we don't say we don't see, acknowledge, or remember. What we don't say becomes a secret, and secrets often create shame and fear and myths. I say it because I want to someday feel comfortable saying it, and not ashamed and guilty.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later.