Quotes About Recollection

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

La música es la labor de un espíritu generoso que (con esfuerzo o no) reúne nuestras fuerzas primitivas y nos las ofrece, no para que las recobremos: para dejarnos constancia de que allí todavía andan, las pobrecitas, y que yo les hago falta.

The first impression is the truth, and all that follows is merely the excuse of memory.

I can remember weird things from way back, but not what I had for breakfast.

He listens well who takes notes.

I can't remember any of the films I've done. You go from one to another, and they all blend in to a big mass. You remember the costumes because you remember how you felt - that Western I did with Kevin Costner where I wore the big hat and the two guns, I remember that.

I remember practically every joke I've ever heard in my life.

Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or explain.

I take a lot of notes. Maybe it's a product of me taking so many notes, but I have a pretty good memory for episodes, and some of the other actors will ask me questions about things, so I have this sense of responsibility that I have to be the one to remember some of the details.

I have a pretty good memory.

Attention to detail - Sherlock certainly has that, and my memory is pretty good - but not as good as his.

Even though we didn't actually record it as the Move I had already written a song called 'Dear Elaine', which I subsequently put on the Boulders album. I thought at the time that was probably the best song I'd written.

I'm not a doctor - so I can't describe flashbacks well - but it is like you're living it again.

You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.

I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.

I appeared on a show with Jonathan Harris on it-the Bill Dana show-even before Lost In Space. Someone gave me a tape of it in the past year, but in all these years we hadn't remembered.

I've been in a lot of shows, I will say that. Every once in a while, I'll look at a tape of something I've done, and I won't even remember having done it.

Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!

Every little interaction I had with Scorsese is forever tattooed on my brain.

I am very good at remembering music and am absolutely certain that I never heard 'Taurus' until 2014.

You're burned into my mind forever.