Quotes About Memory

The first movie that ever scared me, I feel like it wasn't a scary movie. I feel like it was 'Dennis the Menace' or something.

Canadians know me so well - I am part of Canada's collective memory - and my fame would get people through the door who would not otherwise be interesting in talking about mental health.

The hardest part of anything is making a dish consistently great - you order it seven years later, if it's still on the menu, and it's still as good as what you remember.

I don't remember going to school with anyone who had a Mercedes dealership.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.

Heavy metal is immortal, but we're not.

Language is memory and metaphor.

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

When I went back home to Seattle after filming 'Dune' in Mexico, I thought, 'Did this really happen?'

I can't remember what Michael Praed looks like. I'm too young!

Do you remember where you were when Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died?

For as long as I can remember, I've had John Michael Higgins in my brain in the funny department.

Nothing in the Middle East is ever forgotten or forgiven.

Someone can be miles away, but if they're in your heart, that means they're locked in your head, too.

They have a new division where you have to be at least 80 years old. You play three days for a million dollars, one hole a day, and if you can remember what you shot, you win!

During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people died; over the next 2 years - 3 million.

When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.

I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

I would like to live forever in people's hearts and minds; that would be fun. I'll leave the world my art.

The first CD I bought was Brandy and Monica's 'The Boy Is Mine.'

My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.

My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.