Quotes About Revisiting

I'm reading Sebastian Faulks's 'Birdsong' at the moment. I read it when I was younger but decided to re-read it, as I remembered really liking it at the time.

I like giving the audience a lot of stuff to look at, and rewards for repeated viewings and paying attention.

I'm a big fan of films that I grew up on and would watch obsessively, over and over again. If I didn't feel like I got everything on the first watch good, I want to see it again immediately.

I have begun to wonder what actually happens in our brains when we return to half-remembered places. What is memory's perspective? Does the man revise the boy's view or is the imprint relatively static, a vestige of what was once intimately known?

When I take this walk, the apartment is always empty. I move through it like a phantom, and I have begun to wonder what exactly happens in our brains when we return to half-remembered places. What is memory's perspective? Does the man revise the boy's view or is the imprint relatively static, a vestige of what was once intimately known?

My talent before singing is being able to interpret and understand my emotions. I've felt pain and felt it intensely, so every time I sing, I revisit it.

Even in Hollywood, filmmakers are re-creating classics at regular intervals.

We will not have any Dickens today… but tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that. Let us read Little Dorrit again.

What Emily Dickinson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition.

Leía mucho, lo que no quiere decir que leyera muchos libros. Más bien prefería releer las obras que me habían gustado. (...) Así pues, no tenía este punto en común con los demás, y leía mis libros a solas y en silencio. Los releía y cerraba los ojos y me llenaban de su aroma. Sólo aspirando la fragancia de un libro, tocando sus páginas, me sentía feliz.

It's funny to think that Anson and I were here, in this same place, together all that time ago, and now here we are again. It makes me feel good, makes me feel that perhaps everything doesn't just disappear, that some things are circling back, taking the long way, but circling back towards me.

If there's something I really like or a chord progression, I write a note in my Blackberry, and maybe a year later, I'll revisit it and ask, 'What did I like about that?' I really don't try to think too much about it. I like to be fresh.

And sometimes those remembered images aren't even accurate; in revisiting some of the movies I discuss here, I've been surprised to realize that what I remember about a particular movie moment, the influential lesson that has stayed with me—how to kiss in the rain, what to say to my shell-shocked parents about their divorce, where in the linen closet to hide the liquor—sometimes doesn't actually exist in the film. It's a trick of memory

Y no que esté mal si las cosas nos encuentran otra vez cada día y son las mismas.

My favorite movie of all-time is 'Stand By Me,' and I re-read my favorite young adult books often.

When I got a chance, I went back and shared those experiences that were important to me. George Washington High, the campus at San Francisco State, and even back to Emerson Elementary school and Roosevelt Junior High. I was happy to do it, to go back and see if all the same teachers were there.

I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened.

Kids were for later, maybe. They could still see the children they had been.

Monsieur l'Interrogateur, si vous êtes vraiment ce que je pense, comme vous auriez aimé rencontrer Nails Van Byleveld. Quels romans cet homme doit avoir dans le cercueil de sa mémoire ! Quel paradoxe, quelle joie, on doit éprouver à effilocher l'écheveau de vêtements dont il est habillé ! On en reparlera plus tard.

No one knows what a moderate dose of revisiting a trauma memory is better than the actual traumatized person.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

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.

'Macbeth' is a show I'm going to do again someday.

The reason for leaving sometimes is to return. Simply to return.