Quotes About Recollection

A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.

If memories were indeed like what a camera records, they could be forgotten, or they could fade so that they are no longer clear and vivid. But it would be difficult to explain how people could have memories that are both clear and vivid while also being wrong. Yet that happens, and it is not infrequent.

I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.

I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.

There's nothing that can lock a memory in your mind more distinctly than with a piece of music. It's so easy to remember something so vividly and so perfectly when you score it to something.

After I started singing, I'd go to my dad's records I grew up with in his house listening to: Gordon Lightfoot, John Denver, the Carpenters, Bob Seger, Neil Diamond, voices that resonate with you, that you know who they are right away.

I can't remember in 1980 who I voted for. I wish I could tell you.

The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old.

I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'

Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.

I haven't had a super awkward moment. I can't think of one.

From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything.

The second time is the one we remember, where memory begins. Putting the moments in order is only half the story. What matters is the weight of the moments as they accumulate.

There's a fine line between forgetting an event, and suppressing the memory of it.

it's their own unplanned words, their own thoughtless gestures and inflections, which have clung to my memory like flies caught on flypaper.

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.

What does it remember like?

Everything she did reminded me of someone else.

L'unica cosa più dolorosa dell'essere obliatori attivi è essere rammentatori inerti.

Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within

The years go by, and I've told the story so many times that I'm not sure anymore whether I actually remember it or whether I just remember the words I tell it with.

My memory, sir, is like a garbage disposal.

La imaginación está hecha de convenciones de la memoria. Si yo no tuviera memoria no podría imaginar.

Mi memoria a veces se parece demasiado al olvido.