- Nov 07, 2020
Remember Quotes
What stays with us, in the words of those who lived it.
These quotes revolve around memory in different forms: the fading magic of a childhood holiday, the messy notes an idea leaves behind, and a specific recollection tied to a major public demonstration decades ago. For more reflections on time passing and looking back, see Day quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been a lover of the sea ever since I can remember.
- Life Is Short
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember, growing up, losing a sister, and - life is short. Make the most of your opportunities.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the opening credits, and I had to tell her that that was the happiest she was going to be for the next two hours.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to sit in a room by themselves for years on end. But for most of the rest of us, we think and remember socially.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
- Executing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As leaders, we must remember that effectively executing business plans involves a consistent engagement in activities that would typically create animosity in every other non-business relationship.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was blessed with blonde hair and a baby face - well, I don't know if you'd call that blessed - I don't even remember when I started shaving.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would walk into an audition, and they'd say, 'Here comes Clinton Derricks-Carroll's brother.' They could never remember my name.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been wearing jeans all my life. I remember my first denim as a kid because my mum used to buy me OshKosh overalls.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I literally cannot remember a time when I was not asking myself what events in 'Star Wars' were like for Princess Leia. The good side of all this is that what looked like 'goofing off' or 'daydreaming' these many years has all turned out to be valuable career preparation.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't tell you my wedding anniversary (although I seem to remember it was in June. Or maybe July. Definitely a month beginning with a 'J,' anyhow. But not January. Um. I think) and people I went to school with get extremely fed up with me when I bump into them in the street and have absolutely no recollection of their faces.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like my children to remember all the cuddles and bedtimes, and that I worshipped them unconditionally.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020