Quotes About Recollection

Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule.

You have high school photos and stuff, but to have a recording of your voice and your work from 20 years ago, it's a kick in the head to hear how you've changed and what you were interested in at the time and how it's either changed or stayed the same.

I've always been steady on and off keeping diaries and journals. I try to document everything so I can remember it the older I get.

Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It's like a magnet attracting steel filings.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the moments thereof are kept and preserved.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

If I saw you everyday forever, I would remember this time.

He didn't have to remember, I remembered. I had bronzed the words. No, they were fragments of bullet, lodged in my heart. Whenever I moved a certain way they ached, so I learned a totally different way, a new walk, except it wasn't really a walk, it was more a permanent limp.

Every man feels that he must believe what he distinctly remembers, though he can give no other reason of his belief, but that he remembers the thing distinctly.

He couldn't remember either the names or the addresses or the telephone numbers of two or three staggeringly attractive women he had met: their details were always just out of recall, the fingertips of his memory couldn't reach the shelf they were kept on, so he had no way of tracking down the beauties.

I would have remembered the good stuff. Nobody ever remembers the good stuff.

The only thing I remember about him now is that he shaved his legs. I was surprised at how much I dug the shaved legs. "Thanks for sharing," Jacob said. I hadn't realized I'd been thinking aloud.

Remember this moment, my friend the tape recorder. Lying next to Eliza, I had the feeling I'd just found something I didn't even know I'd lost.

An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.

My memory seems to be holding on quite well. There is no reason why it shouldn't if you keep training it.

I get flooded with nostalgia, I do. And it's okay. It's a good thing.

I don't think I've got a problem with nostalgia, because a lot of the time things are self-referential.

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.

Things like the movie 'Memento' are interesting to me because our memories of the things we've done and how we've behaved form our notion of who we are, what our character is. So if part of that were missing, what does that actually say about you? And what does it say about your sense of responsibility for things if you can't remember them?

I've always said that the games in November are the ones you remember.

The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it. I'll go over a piece of copy until I've gotten the essence of what the writer had in mind - every nuance.

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

Occasionally people will look at me and do a double take and they'll look at me like they're trying to think where they know me from.