Quotes About Recollection

Nostalgia is only amnesia turned around

I watched 'I Love the '80s' on VH1.

I did not sit down and watch 'Baywatch' growing up. But I do specifically remember it coming on, and I remember it going off. I watched something that came on right before and then going back to that channel to watch what was coming on afterwards.

I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.

Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.

Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Even if you do a great performance, if you have a weak link in the film, that's all anyone remembers.

The plays I remember are the plays I made a mistake.

It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back.

I've had journals ever since I was really little. Sometimes I write poems and stuff, but for the most part I write down what happens to me during the day that I don't want to forget. So I have books filled with little things like that.

Everyone has ways of trying to find a way to memorise our past. There's something very poetic about that.

I only see clearly what I remember.

I would hope people remember the playing days first, and not the coaching years.

The collective memory of America is short.

I remember rather little of my life, and what I do remember is of small consequence.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived.

Susan Rice has as much trouble with her memory as Hillary Clinton.

People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering.

There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers.

The mind remembers what the soul can bear.