Quotes About Recollection

During the writing of all of my books, I've learned that, most of all, people want to know that someone is listening and - this is the tricky part - remembering.

No one ever comes up to me and says, 'Hey man, I loved your work in 'Road Trip.' They say, 'Are you that guy?' Like, they have no idea. 'Were you in 'American Pie 2?'

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Play Trivial Pursuit with me, and you'll be astonished. I can remember every outfit I wore to every party going back to 1983.

Why is it that I can remember so easily the lyrics to the opening theme song of 'Gilligan's Island?' Why do I remember these trivial things, and I can't remember the names of important collaborators?

My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

I predict after this whole thing is over, what we'll remember about the failed candidacy of Donald Trump is, 'You're fired.'

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

I trust anybody's memory more than I trust mine.

I had such a great year I didn't want to forget it.

There had been times – he was almost certain – when he'd known unmitigated joy, but so faded were they to his recollection that he had begun to suspect the fictional conjuring of nostalgia. As with civilizations and their golden ages, so too with people: each individual ever longing for that golden past moment of true peace and wellness.

Friend, I have remembered something.

You forget, I once watched you dance...

forgotten how

Right now I'm having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.

Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

I had amnesia once or twice.

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.

Una conciencia tranquila es generalmente el signo de una mala memoria

Une conscience tranquille est généralement le signe d'une mauvaise mémoire

He had looked as beautiful as she remembered him, yet he had all but forgotten her.

She remembered the flavor of the dreams, the wet stark fear of them, but the images eluded her. For that, she was grateful.