Quotes About Reminiscence

'Mnemonic' is a play about memory.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

I have a good flavor memory.

I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think of as explicit memory has to do with location.

I like to go back to Memphis, where I started it. I might sit in the hood for three days just putting myself back there.

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

Miami will always be special to me.

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

I used to play snooker in millionaires' mansions with marble floors and eat at the best places, but that's all over now.

corollaries—where have I seen his face, don't I know that

For it may be argued with great plausibility that reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease, and that expectation in its only comfortable form—that of absolute faith—is practically an impossibility; whilst in the form of hope and the secondary compounds, patience, impatience, resolve, curiosity, it is a constant fluctuation between pleasure and pain.

Maybe you'll find out. Maybe in one of their bombed-out cities, beside one of their rivers or forests, even one day in the rain, it will come to you. You'll remember the Himmler-Spielsaal, and the skirt I was wearing... memory will dance for you, and you can even make it my voice saying what I couldn't say then. Or now.

Zoyd remembered her...as a tall florid girl in a minidress that bore the image, from neck to hemline, of Frank Zappa's face, thus linking her in Zoyd's mind somehow with Mount Rushmore.

Dad's Buick—what a great car it had been all these years—

What I wouldn't give to share one more morning with my dad.

From where he sat in the box above the ballroom, Grey was able to watch Rose without her knowing. The Duke of Ryeton, notorious rake and scoundrel, reduced to Peeping Tom. This is what Rose had brought him to. It was exactly one week ago tonight that he'd made lover to her for the last time. In this very building, in a room he canceled the reservation for just an hour ago.

97 days earlier

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't ever see them fading.

The most merciless thing in the world is love. When love flees, all that remains is memory to compensate.

Nothing is as good as it used to be, and it never was. The 'golden age of sports,' the golden age of anything, is the age of everyone's childhood.

Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.

A Hibernian sage once wrote that there are three things a man never forgets: The girl of his early youth, a devoted teacher, and a great horse.

But don't you find that certain songs remind you of certain things in your life? That when you hear a specific song it takes you back to when you were listening to it?