Quotes About Recollection

had come all this way and this was what I get paid to do. So I went out and found his home and for four hours it all poured out, what had happened in those three days at Chipyongni when he was a young platoon leader. It was if he had been waiting for me to come by for fifty-five years, and he remembered everything as

Secondly, we have several instances of habits, which may be revived by one single word; as when a person, who has by rote any periods of a discourse, or any number of verses, will be put in remembrance of the whole, which he is at a loss to recollect, by that single word or expression, with which they begin.

The blossoms fall just once each winter, yet in our memories, they fall every day.

I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

Silence...leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ...Silence does not mean running away but rather recollecting ourselves in the open space of God.

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

I remember Tucker Toomey was named so because "T's are funny!" And if Garry Marshall says it's funny, by god, it must be so.

One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, "Oh, I'm just reading your book." And I say, "Which one, for God's sake, I've done six now!" "Oceans of Sound".

Do you remember? Do you remember the world before the poison?

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

There is no class of people in the world, who have such good memories as creditors.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times

A good liar must have a good memory.

I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie

I have a lot of good days I'd like to relive.

I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.

I have a very good memory for scripts. I can watch a show I like once, then remember about 90% of the script. But ask me who was in it, and I wouldn't have a clue.

I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie

A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem