Quotes About Recollection

Sometimes, people know me from Marvel's 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' But that usually only happens in America.

What I wanted to have happen was that people who didn't know that Game Boy Advance and GBA are the same thing would remember Wii right away because it doesn't need to be abbreviated.

It is nice to go down the memory lane and remember who I am and what my roots are.

I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

I can't remember what my first script was.

I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

She says that I wore some pretty sexy leather pants to that first meeting, but I don't remember.

By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.

The only difficulty with this, is that nothing can be completely forgotten. Every single thing that happens to us makes its mark on our minds and, even if we consciously cannot recall it, it will still influence us to some—possibly minor or possibly major—extent.

Plato talks about something called anamnesis, which is when something long forgotten comes to the surface of a man's consciousness. Now, I'll admit that just sounds like a fancy word for remembering something, but actually it's more than that because with remembering, it's not necessary to have forgotten anything, which makes for a subtle distinction. That's what cinema does.

experience I was keen to repeat. Meanwhile, Kaltenbrunner

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.

Le problème, voyez-vous, c'est que quand on est grand, on oublie, on oublie presque tout, et on oublie surtout qu'on a été enfant.

Elle dit elle-même qu'elle ne s'en souvient pas, et que cela de toute façon ne l'a pas empêchée de naître et ne l'empêchera pas de mourir.

in which, along with Montaigne, we raise the question of whether a book you have read and completely forgotten, and which you have even forgotten you have read, is still a book you have read)

It takes a good memory to keep up a lie.

President Kennedy visited once, but that was in Switzerland and I remember the Secret Service men dressed in black swarming about the house.

Smells are so powerful and evocative, sometimes stronger than visual cues.

My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.

The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.