Remember Something Quotes

• You said you wanted to remember something.' His palms slid up to the top of her thighs and squeezed. 'So lie back and let me do my thing.' -Issac Rothe, Crave

  J.R. Ward

  Lying, Said, Thighs

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• These people you used to see every day, friends or acquaintances, after a while they become as distant as any stranger, people you suddenly recall late at night--you remember something they said or something silly that someone once did. For a few moments they completely occupy your mind; then you forget them again.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Silly, Night, People

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• If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

  Jodi Picoult

  Loss, Happened, Happenings

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.

  George S. Patton

  Dirty, Men, Giving

  "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, 1983.

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• When you would think,
  "what was the use of it,"
  you'll remember
  something you can't grasp
  and you'll wonder
  what it was.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Thinking, Use, Wonder

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.297, New Directions Publishing

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• When I'm creating a character, it's a little bit like what my theater teachers used to tell me about Stanislavsky, like if you're using sense memory to do a scene - if you have to cry in a scene, you try to remember something in your life that made you cry and you use that in order to get the tears.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Teacher, Memories, Character

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• My definition of learning is to remember what you are interested in. If you don't remember something, you haven't learned it, and you are never going to remember something unless you are interested in it. These words dance together. 'Interest' is another holy word and drives 'memory'. Combine them and you have learning.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Memories, Together, Definitions

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• I go through life now reminding myself to remember something, and I do this while that something is happening. I'll be experiencing a moment and I'll say to myself, "Remember this!" Otherwise my whole life just blurs by.

  Heidi Julavits

  Moments, Blur, Whole Life

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• I can't read or write music. When I want to remember something, I try to remember all the keys on the piano. Which is what I still do. I put the numbers on the keys. And that's got to become music again.

  Melvin Van Peebles

  Writing, Keys, Piano

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 14, 2013.

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• Like all my poems, 'Negotiations' has several sources. It deals with aging lovers and the often silent deals they make. Thinking about bargains made me think of The Little Mermaid and that made me remember something I had just read about the incredibly complex process by which tadpoles (actual little mermaids) are somehow able to reabsorb their tails and fashion their future frog legs.

  Rae Armantrout

  Fashion, Thinking, Mermaid

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• The most significant learning occurs when emotions are integrated with instruction because all body systems are united. The Arts are strongly linked to emotions, enhancing the likelihood that students will remember something.

  Eric Jensen

  Art, Body, Students

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• Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh at something.

  Nick Zinner

  Photography, Laughing, Important

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction.

  Elizabeth Loftus

  Together, Different, Pieces

  "I Could Have Sworn". Interview with Alison George, www.slate.com. September 8, 2013.

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• When I remember something which I had,
  But which is gone, and I must do without,
  I sometimes wonder how I can be glad,
  Even in cowslip time when hedges sprout;
  It makes me sigh to think on it,--but yet
  My days will not be better days, should I forget.

  Jean Ingelow

  Regret, Thinking, Gone

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.206

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• I have an awful memory, and I have a great memory. Meaning that, if I'm trying to remember something, I can't remember it. But my recall is fantastic.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Memories, Trying, Awful

  Interview with Ryan Bartelmay, believermag.com. May 15, 2018.

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• When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction. The process of calling it into conscious awareness can change it, and now you're storing something that's different. We all do this, for example, by inadvertently adopting a story we've heard.

  Elizabeth Loftus

  Together, Pieces, Might

  "Loftus on False and Implanted Memories". Interview with Alison George, www.patheos.com. September 13, 2013.

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• I want you to remember something for me. My name is Robbie Williams. I'm a singer, a songwriter, and a born entertainer.

  Robbie Williams

  Summer, Names, Want

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• Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories have these characteristics too.

  Elizabeth Loftus

  Memories, Mean, Thinking

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• Maybe you don't have to remember something for it to be true. For it to exist.

  Lisa McMann

  Remember, Being True

  Lisa McMann (2012). “Dead to You”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• The idea of going to the movies made Hugo remember something Father had once told him about going to the movies when he was just a boy, when the movies were new. Hugo's father had stepped into a dark room, and on a white screen he had seen a rocket fly right into the eye of the man in the moon. Father said he had never experienced anything like it. It had been like seeing his dreams in the middle of the day.

  Brian Selznick

  Dream, Father, Eye

  Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.88, Scholastic

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• They said I would never write this book. Well, f**k ’em – ’cos here it is. All I have to do now is remember something... Bollocks. I can’t remember anything.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Book, Writing, Ems

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• Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Life, Strength, Sympathy

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• Remember something, if you will, about voting: Voting is not a horse race, you're not going there thinking "Gee, I gotta pick the winner so I can brag to my friends 'Oh, I picked so-and-so and he or she won'". Voting is voting your heart and voting your conscience and when you've done that, don't ever, EVER let a Democrat or Republican tell you that you've wasted your vote because the fact is, if you DON'T vote your heart and conscience then you HAVE wasted your vote.

  Jesse Ventura

  Horse, Heart, Thinking

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• You don't die. You just... get really angry and then after you're angry you hurt a lot and then the best thing is that one day you remember something she said or did and you laugh instead of crying.

  Melina Marchetta

  Hurt, Laughing, One Day

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.61, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Facts, Difficult, Happened

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