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Quotes About Recollection

I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.
~ Billy Corgan
You can't recover memories of a missing event. That's a fallacy.
~ Betty Hill
My missus says I can never remember anything as a kid. I always say, I put a line through anything that happened back then.
~ Callum Wilson
If I'm ever having a good time, I'll write about it so I'll remember it.
~ Brantley Gilbert
They are part of lots of sessions that makeup a hazy part of my session life.
~ Jim Sullivan
I can't really remember my first headline show.
~ Phoebe Bridgers
I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
~ Marie Antoinette
'Heaven's Gate' I remember, because it was the first movie I ever was cast in.
~ Terry O'Quinn
Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in the mind forever, and the intervals being hazy, half-recalled
~ George MacDonald Fraser
Beyond the late Fifties everything faded. When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life lost its sharpness. You remembered huge events which had quite probably not happened, you remembered the details of incidents without being able to recapture their atmosphere, and there were long blank periods to which you could assign nothing. Everything had been different then.
~ George Orwell
When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life lost its sharpness.
~ George Orwell
El pasado es únicamente lo que digan los testimonios escritos y la memoria humana.
~ George Orwell
When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life lost its sharpness. You remembered huge events which had quite probably not happened, you remembered the detail of incidents without being able to recapture their atmosphere, and there were long blank periods to which you could assign nothing.
~ George Orwell
He had dragged out from the corners of his memory some more fragments of forgotten rhymes.
~ George Orwell
I do know them each by heart because
~ George S. Clason
Memory... is an internal rumor.
~ George Santayana
Of suddenly remembering what was lost.
~ George Saunders
During this period, so many important events have occurred, and such changes in men and things have taken place, as the compass of a letter would give you but an inadequate idea of. None of which events, however, nor all of them together, have been able to eradicate from my mind, the recollection of those happy moments—the happiest of my life—which I have enjoyed in your company.
~ George Washington
Je me souviens de Dop Dop Dop, adoptez le shampooing Dop. (Je me souviens, 1978)
~ Georges Perec
Bouncer suddenly achieved popularity with Mrs Barrow by catching a large rat in the larder, whither he had repaired in search of something to maintain his strength during the night watches. Mrs Barrow was moved to bestow on him a large ham-bone. He subsequently hid this under Elinor's bed, and his recollection of its whereabouts in the middle of the night, and insistent demands to be admitted into her room, were all that occurred to spoil her rest that night.
~ Georgette Heyer
remember? That's why seeing us reminded her of her playhouse
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
little clippings from my
~ Gervase Phinn
We grew up next door. He's been there since the start. If I show him a scar, he remembers the blood.
~ Gian Sardar
I vaguely remember the 1998 World Cup. Michael Owen scored; I remember watching that.
~ Jack Rodwell