Quotes About Recollection

I do remember going shopping with my mother; I think the name of the store was Ruth Atkins. I don't know why I can remember that. It's probably because it's not the name.

I've made up so many stores about my name, I can't remember.

I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

Memory is not pure. Memories told are not pure memories; memories told are stories. The storyteller will change them. I've always been interested in that.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end...

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.

History is never the simple recounting of the past as it really was. It is inevitably an interpretation of the past, a retrospective vision of the past, which is limited both by the sources themselves and by the historian who selects and interprets them.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful story.

Maybe he misremembered much of what he lived through – timescales, sequences, the maths of it – but as he dipped into it via memory the feelings were refelt just as strongly, if not stronger.

I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.

Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.

Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it's also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and that happens to be the case even for memories that are not true.

The most memorable part of filming 'Finesse,' I'd have to say, was the kissing scene. It was just so odd for me.

The funny thing about 'Office Space' is I almost never get my lines quoted back to me.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

I've always been talented, always been able to sing or remember a song after hearing it one time.

Music can be a way for me to think back a lot of the time, almost like an opening into all the nostalgia I never express.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should probably forget all about them.' 'Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us.