Quotes About Memory

My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.

My memory's pretty much gone.

I think it's foolish to think that if you've done something for so long, you can kind of delete it out of your memory bank or delete every emotion attached to it. I knew when I retired what that meant.

I don't think anybody would be interested in my memoir - and my memory isn't very good either!

I have a terrible memory.

I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.

I have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to.

Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.

My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time.

I have lost my short-term memory - I'm just getting blonder by the day.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.

As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

I think. as a child, there's something frightening about certain adults, particularly when you're in their clutches or power. That must be the reason why Roald Dahl creates such brilliant characters: He taps into something in the collective memory of people.

A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin.

I always try to write from memory, and I always try to use memory as an editor. So when I'm thinking of something like a relationship or whatever, then I'm letting my memory tell me what the important things were.

The use of the wearable computer changes with each person. When this device is your way of seeing, or a seeing aid, it's how you see the world. When you use it as a memory aid, it is your brain.

I'm just lucky. I do have very clear memories of childhood. I find that many people don't, but I'm just very fortunate that I have that kind of memory.

I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.

I have a good flavor memory.

My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.

I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think of as explicit memory has to do with location.

Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it.

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.