Quotes About Retrieval
Might as well tell you. In that shop we were in, they had this shelf with loads of records and tapes. So I was looking for the one you lost that time. Do you remember, Kath? I never told you at the time, but I tried really hard to find it. I remember looking for ages. And when it looked in the end like it wasn't going to turn up, I just said to myself, one day I'll go to Norfolk and I'll find it there for her.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
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I don't suppose you remember where you left your clothing, Daniel murmured to me. Chloe gave a soft laugh. That's always the problem, isn't it? Okay then. You two go find that. We'll meet you here. Hopefully everyone will be in human form. A wry smile. Though I'll warn you, he's not a whole lot more pleasant that way. At least as a wolf, he can't talk. The wolf growled, but she only laughed and gave him a pat, then tugged him away as we went to retrieve my clothing.
~ Kelley Armstrong
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Where are your pills?" Daniel said. "Bathroom." "We'll find them," I said, and started to go. Corey grabbed my sleeve. "Stay." "Good idea," Sam said. "My bedside manner sucks. I'll help Daniel.
~ Kelley Armstrong
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You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.
~ Kelly Link
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Sometimes maybe you should let someone you love travel great distances away from you. You shouldn't think you needed to set out to retrieve them and put them back where they belonged. Sometimes they were only safe and happy, like Annabelle Aurora. And then other times, it was just possible they were lost at sea. It would be your duty, then, to get out into the boat and search, even if the waves were choppy and the wind was howling the protests of the dead.
~ Deb Caletti
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M]any people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back when you want to answer questions or identify images. But decades of work in psychology has shown that this just isn't true. Our memories are constructive. They're reconstructive. Memory works a little bit more like a Wikipedia page: You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.
~ Elizabeth Loftus
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I lost Davey twice, retrieving him on the second occasion from the interior of a huge granite sarcophagus. I was tempted to leave him there, for a while, since he could not get out of it. But Emerson wouldn't let me.
~ Elizabeth Peters
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we all know that the brain's retrieval system is amazingly efficient, except when you are trying to remember where you put your car keys.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
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I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.
~ Sara Paretsky
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Let's save some time here. I grow weary of your clumsy bluffs. In the case of an abduction, the LEP will send a crack Retrieval team to get back what has been lost.. You have done so. Excuse me while I titter. Crack team? Honestly. A Cub-Scout patrol armed with water pistols could have defeated them.
~ Eoin Colfer
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Butler was seeing the world as it was, complete with L.E.P retrival team
~ Eoin Colfer
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How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?
~ Amitav Ghosh
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When I don't have control of the ball, what do I do? I press to get it back. It's a way of defending.
~ Johan Cruyff
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You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.
~ Sissy Spacek
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Which reminds me," I said. "You got my pistol?" "Smith." "And Wesson?" "Ben Smith.
~ Robert Olen Butler
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I've lost track of this speech, and I'm not too sure where it's headed. But I know where it started and that's what you've got to keep in mind. Has anyone seen my hat?
~ Derek Landy
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I really don't retain information - by the time I arrive wherever I'm going, I already forget what it is that I wanted to say.
~ Roman Abramovich
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No pedía ya la libertad, sino la memoria
~ Alejandro Dumas
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My mind doesn't work, my memories don't work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can't tell you it's always the truth.
~ John Kennedy
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I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.
~ Ryan Tedder
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Good analysts and therapists can help us to recognize parts of ourselves we have repressed and denied. The shamanic concept of soul loss reaches further. It recognizes that soul healing is also about retrieving pieces of soul that have literally gone missing and need to be located and persuaded to return and take up residence in the body where they belong.
~ Robert Moss
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Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them.
~ Alison Weir
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How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a chest, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?
~ Amitav Ghosh
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queen. You have power, but you have paid dearly for it. You have wealth, but it brings you no joy, for you are dressed even more simply than my mother. You can have anything you desire, and hundreds of servants obey your command, but you cannot retrieve the things you have lost—like your son. Your family.
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
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