It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

I have a very bad memory. I can't remember my own life very well.

The main fear about growing old as an actor is not losing the looks. I never had any to speak of, and what I had I've still got, but losing the memory is another matter.

We humans are still a very primitive culture, and it's one of the traps we've fallen into over the course of our lives - to forget our history. That's why George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' is so profound. It chronicles our short memory.

Memory is revisionist, you know. 'The Houston Kid' was based on true things that happened. But I know - from writing a memoir that I've been working on for awhile - that reconstructing memory is revisionism.

Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it.

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don't fully know. But if you can take a trip down memory lane and see what interested you, that's at least a clue as to where your interest may begin to develop.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

My granddad was not a tall man but he weighed about 27 stone and my first memory is crawling across his belly. I remember it being a journey.

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond.

The most profound memory I have from my childhood is burning down my house at 6 years old.

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.