Quotes About Recollection

My real name is Bob Davis, but for some reason, I got the name Jasper while playing football at the local rec when I was nine years old, and it just stuck. Years later, when someone asked 'Jasper who?' I just said 'Carrott' - but I have no idea why I came out with that particular word.

When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.

The real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.

You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.

What were you worried about this time last year? Can't remember

Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film.

What the heart has once known, it shall never forget.

He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.

You must remember everything. Everything must be remembered, but the bad, like private parts, shouldn't be shown without a good reason.

The first time he saw her she reminded him a distant memory of falling from a height.

Sometimes we watch Bill Murray movies with him and his friends at his house on Sea View Terrace and marvel at the way the boys can recite all the lines the way we know every word of The Outsiders.

The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

Memories are stronger than we think.

Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odor

The way memory is the ringing after a gunshot. The way we try to remember the gunshot but can't. The way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking.

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

The best memories are those which we have forgotten.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

His prime resource is the leaky vessel of is own memory. At times he views it thus, quite literally- as some old pail with holes and rusted seams. Alternatively, he imagines an extensive manuscript of which there survive only a handful of charred fragments; it is like trying to piece together the Gospels from the Dead Sea Scrolls....

As for what I'm doing now," he said, "I guess I'm trying to bring the past to life.