Quotes About Recollection

Education is about remembering stuff and I could never remember anything, so I didn't get an education.

After all, God is God because he remembers.

Everyone remembers the bad guy long after they've seen the movie.

Nobody ever remembers the worst film they ever saw.

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

All the time I see things that remind me very much of the 1930s.

Pop music is a constant reminder of what you were doing at the time, it holds all sorts of memories.

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

Most parts I've played since 'Naked,' I can barely remember who they were, let alone repeat any lines.

In an email... like I did 100 interviews, and I never repeated one story. That's impossible to do when you do face-to-face interviews, because your brain locks and you say the same thing over and over again.

Repetition doesn't create memories. New experiences do.

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

From time to time I look at the picture when I am very sad. I just want to remember my past and that scene made a deep impression on me.

When I write something, I can't remember in the end if this is a memory or if it's not - I'm talking about fiction. So for me, it's the same thing.

I dwell in the past.

We may be done with the past but the past is not done with us. Show more Show less

Pero lo peor, pese a todo, no es que haya muchas inexactitudes y mentiras, pues eso quizá sea una característica de todas las memorias. Lo peor es que recordar y poner en el papel lo recordado no trae alivio alguno. En vez de disminuir, las preguntas se multiplican, y la angustia se hace más honda.

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

You've just read of a woman remembering an orange thrown through a window, without knowing why she remembers this. You will either remember reading this and know why you remember reading this, or you will remember reading this and not know why you remember reading this, or you will not remember reading this, possibly forever.

Renewing the mind becomes possible when we remember, record, review, and remind ourselves and God of what He has done in the past, and of our obedience. It is a sure way to solidify your identity in Him, and to mold your mind so it conforms to the mind of Christ.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.