Quotes About Memory

As I've grown older, I have begun to marvel... at how much of my life I have spent among ghosts. These are no malevolent presences... Rather, they are such restless spirits as only the strange twentieth-century cocktail of celebrity, technology and collective memory could produce.

Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

Did you ever watch the movie 'A Raisin in the Sun?' That lady was my mom, she was the spitting image of my mom.

I have almost no memory of my parents ever speaking to each other. They split up on bad terms. I assumed that's what family life was like. Just essentially a soap opera.

I think every girl needs a good lip split story, I have one. I fell onto my front door doorknob coming back from the mailbox, once.

My mother says I used to breast-feed in a split.

I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to and what it was all about. Richard Branson told me to do that.

The first time I ever spoke to John Cassavetes was at a Lakers game. I got up to go for a hot dog, and he was coming in the opposite direction. I don't know who said hello first, but we started talking, and it turned out that he went to high school with my first wife, Alice.

I haven't seen or spoken to Ray Collins in at least 10 years so I don't even know if he's alive. I hope so.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

You kissed me like that when I was a blushing bride ...? I wonder what I was blushing about?

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

It was with a homosexual, I was barely 14 years old. But let's be fair, I wasn't the only one who did it. He was a man in Bauru that all our team visited.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.

We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.

Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.