Word Recall Quotes

I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word that comes to mind that begins with the letter F.

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

I know all the words to Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire.'

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

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

You know you're in your 40s when you've spent 48 hours trying to think of a word, and that word was 'hemorrhoids.'

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic.

You know, without my telling you, how sometimes a word or name eludes you, and you seek it through running ghosts of shadow -- leaping at it, lying in wait for it to spring upon it, spreading faint snares for it of sense or sound: until, of a sudden, as if in a phantom forest, you hear it, see it flash among the branches, and scarcely knowing how, suddenly have it.