Quotes About Memory

I care about my legacy.

I really feel that I've carried on my mother's legacy.

Old cartoonists never retire, they just erase away.

I feel like every catastrophe in our lives, you remember exactly where you were, what you were doing, who you were with, almost down to what you were wearing.

I constantly catch myself saying, 'My fiancee, Linda. Wait no - wife.'

Everyone says I should leave it. But of all the cats I have saved, the one I remember is the one I can't catch.

I think Alzheimer's is an important cause.

They used a doll when I fall through the ceiling.

Celebrities meet a lot of people and we just can't maintain them all in our fuddled brains.

I have always loved the Day of the Dead - a chance to celebrate death rather than to treat it like that awful scene in the cemetery.

All my books center around death in some way.

A story is ultimately a memory. It's important when you're telling a story to think about why this memory is a memory. You don't remember everything in life; you just remember certain things - so, why this one?

We all have things in which we look back and say, 'If I had a chance to do it all over again, I wouldn't do certain things.'

IT Chapter Two' is the story of the Losers as adults 27 years later, but they go back to their memories to retrieve something that is very, very necessary. They have to remember who they were, as well as their amazing bond with each other.

Charlie Sheen is who again? Denise is engaged?

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.

My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.

I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down.

I always forget about some of the things I've done, because you do 'em, and sometimes they don't come out, and... most of it's almost like daily chores or something. You check it off your list, and then it's gone.

Honestly, I chose 1 because I wore it in college and my rookie year. My mind wasn't even thinking about D-Rose and everything like that.

To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.

My first memory was of stories about the past - a past that, according to the storytellers, was superior in every way to the life then being lived. It didn't take me long, however, to understand that the present was all we had, for the past was gone, and nothing could be done about it.