Quotes About Recollection

He had got into this habit, which more or less dispensed with the necessity for remembering anything, not because he tended to be forgetful but because his capacity for holding on to information, however useless or trivial, would otherwise have kept him in a state of constant distraction.

I often think that perhaps there is only a limited amount of memory going about the world, and that when it wants to live again, it steals its nest, like a cuckoo.

I remember exactly what you were wearing, [...] Dark suit, red tie, gold watch, and a blond woman.

All these years later, I have almost no memory of the shows themselves. It's a blur. I remember my jogging runs better - that was my way of getting my energy together. I used to try to get to the arena as late as possible; otherwise, I'd just be pacing around, waiting to go on.

Waking from any fever dream, one retains, above all, impressions seared into memory.

If you're walking down the street and you smell a scent, it can take you right back to a memorable time in your life, whether it's a moment with an ex-girlfriend or a childhood event.

The first time I got recognized in the Sates, it was by Mike Tyson. He sang 'Cruel Summer' at us as we were walking out of the hotel to go to the beach.

Taking walks sometimes bring back memories of my childhood because a smell might trigger a memory.

Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

My mother was a doctor and so I spent a lot of time with Hirabai, our maid. One day, she got home and saw Hirabai bouncing me on her lap and cooing, 'Chunky, chunky.' She liked the name and it stuck.

I didn't even remember it because it kind of came up, and then a week later it said I broke up with him.

I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures.

Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly.

I don't remember all my successes, but I do remember failures.

I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.

I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve.

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

You can't trust your memory. You change it to suit yourself.

Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you just described the thing you remember most about it? Doubtful. Narrative is a necessary cement, but it disappears from memory.

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

I don't remember even having spoken a piece in Sunday school.

Whatever I have sung over the years, people remember the song first by the 'dhun' and words.