Quotes About Memory

My father is a fish.

All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood on a mountain-slope, A scent beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory in one man, – A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.

I think the dead are tender. Shall we kiss?--

Living things aren't finished, you see. Everything they have ever been in contact with, each thought they have had, each person they have known - these things are still at work in them; nothing's finished. (The Graveyard Reader)

Forgetfulness is the darkness, mindfulness is the light.

There is a film, an image stored in your consciousness. Every time your mind goes back to the past and you look at that image or watch that film, you suffer again.

Everyone has foods that take them on mental journeys.

What great writers have done to cities is not to tell us what happens in them, but to remember what they think happened or, indeed, might have happened. And so Dickens reinvented London, Joyce, Dublin, and so on.

We have to create images that remain in people's memory because a film is judged by what they have already seen. You are trying to create an image that is unique and you have to employ all the resources available to you.

I was born in August, no July, 1908.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.

I can remember on the first day on 'Chatroom,' it was just one scene for the whole day, which was a really nice luxury to have.

I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.

So if they happen to be over the age of 35 and they're male? They're probably going to recognize me from 'The Karate Kid Part II.'

Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.

The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.

My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence.

I think the only value of 'Hotel Rwanda' is the fact that it keeps the Rwandan genocide alive, but as far as content, it's Hollywood.

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.

I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.

As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.