Quotes About Memory

I was really into Britney Spears when I was little.

Nerve cells communicate with one another at specialized points called synapses. And these synapses are plastic - they can be modified by learning.

I've been hit in the head so many times, it's hard to remember that far back. I don't remember specific games.

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.

That Cornell show that - that people talk about, I can't remember that specifically. It didn't stand out for me on that tour. The whole tour was like that for me.

Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.

I can't remember the last time I've been to a football game as a spectator.

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

I can't go to bed if I haven't done my diary. I always record them just as I've always recorded all my interviews and speeches.

Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going at the speed of a snail.'

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

I don't even know how to spell 'legacy!'

I made myself memorize how to spell antidisestablishmentarianism in under 3 seconds when I was 6 years old because my sister told me it was the longest word she knew.

I have a very bad memory. So I would like a chat bot to just remind me of everything I forget. I spend my entire life on Google trying to remember stuff.

If I print something out, I just spend all my time trying to find where I've put it down.

I found out I'd spent my whole life believing things that weren't necessarily accurate. My sisters' memories of certain events are entirely different from mine.

I remember, for my birthday once, we all dressed up as Spice Girls. I was Scary.

I once wore bright orange flares with a Spice Girls t-shirt. Let's hope that's a look I'll never revisit.

That film 'Memento' creeped me out. I was looking over my back through the whole thing. I get more creeped out than scared and spill popcorn all over the place.

I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from 'Cats.' What's it called? 'Memory?' Sends shivers up your spine.

I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.