Quotes About Recollection

Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes.

Memory is more indelible than ink.

When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.

It was sudden thoughts about the things Maggie would have liked or pieces of gossip that he'd like to pass on that made grief come back and bite him on the bum.

I really don't retain information - by the time I arrive wherever I'm going, I already forget what it is that I wanted to say.

While I was born in Singapore, I didn't actually grow up here. So I don't remember all that much.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk.

My first day at Duddingston Primary is probably my first memory.

I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.

I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.

Sometimes I'm like Dory from 'Finding Nemo.' I can't remember facts.

I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history.

I did around 100 episodes as Ted without the band, but the 20 I did with The Blanks are the only ones anyone ever seems to remember.

I have never been able to remember the number of my driver's license, and there have been times when I couldn't even remember my own telephone number, but when I hear a song, sometimes only once, I never forget the melody or the lyric.

One of my early memories is of a white girl twirling in a circle. I realized later on that it was from that show 'Small Wonder' - the oldest I could have been when I was watching it was four or five, but it's one I think about a lot. It's stuck in my head, this terrible Fox television show.

How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

My mom tells me the first show we saw was 'The Secret Garden,' but I don't remember that.

What am I to myself that must be remembered, insisted upon so often?

Presence remembered is presence still.

She did not come to my dreams and memories as a sweet recollection; she brought back the shame and humiliation I'd felt when I realized, standing in her kitchen, that love can be faked and, therefore, never fully trusted.