Recall Quotes

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

I have a negative approach to democracy. I think it should be primarily a mechanism by which people can remove a bad leader.

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

Why do we remember the past, but not the future?

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said 'That's ridiculous. Why did you do that?' It's because you remember it. You've never been to another 9:03 meeting.

I'm surprised by how much I remember.

Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.

I have an excellent memory - for books and authors, that is. I remember all the books I've read.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.

Observe, Remember, Compare.

recollect, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.

He called me a pie!” she announced, defensively. There was a pause. “Wait. That’s not right.” “A tart?” “Yes! That’s it!

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

I think it's always hard for children to talk about abuse because it is only memory. I didn't carry around a tape recorder … I didn't chisel anything in stone … Anybody can look and say, 'Well how do you know for sure?' And that's one of the most painful things about it. You don't.

Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

Interviewing is in some ways the art of memory.