Quotes About Revisiting

She said that one of the advantages of being ninety was that she could read a detective story again, only two weeks after she first read it, without any notion of which character was the villain.

Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.

If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.

It's fascinating how often theological throwaway comes back to haunt you.

In recounting his first crime, the serial killer, Ted Bundy, recalled that he felt disgusted with what he had done. Ramirez may have experienced similar emotional turmoil – at first. Then he likely revisited the crime in his mind, reliving the rape and murder over and over again.

I was revisiting the whole black spandex cat burglar idea. Maybe you could sneak out under cover of darkness, shimmy down a rope from my window." "Okay, you've given that particular scenario way too much thought.

Perhaps someday we could all make it back to the places where we started. I didn't believe it, but I tried to.

yet it was just as it is when you go back to a place from childhood – both exactly the same and quite different.

He stayed there for a week , walking the streets where their footsteps had clicked together through the November night and revisiting the out-of-the-way places to which they had driven in her white car.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Children may not understand all that's happening below the surface of a story. It doesn't matter. Because even though they may not be able to define or verbalize it, they sense there's something more than meets the eye; on an almost subliminal level, they're aware of a richness of texture, or meaning and emotion -- a richness that, in a great book, is inexhaustible. And the child may well come back to it again and again, perhaps long after he's stopped being a child.

La vida es una constante reescritura del ayer. Una deconstrucción de la niñez.

Durante mucho tiempo te desprendes del pasado con facilidad y de una forma que parece automática y adecuada. Las escenas del pasado, más que desvanecerse, dejan de tener importancia. Y entonces se produce una brusca vuelta atrás, lo que está acabado y bien acabado resurge de repente, requiere tu atención, incluso que hagas algo al respecto, aunque salte a la vista que no se puede hacer nada.

We return to the places we're from; we trample faded corners and pencil in new lines.

When I read Doctor Sleep, when it was first published, I was so taken with getting to spend time with Danny Torrance again.

I love when people cover songs that are familiar but have been kind of forgotten about.

The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again.

Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.

Usually, I don't revisit a scene once shot. However, in 'Gentleman,' every morning on the sets, I had to revisit the last four scenes and then shoot for the next set of scenes.

I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or facts or realizations that put a book in another light and make it different and richer the second or the third time.

There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.

I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.

I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.