Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.

Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.

Love should never be a secret and it should never, ever be forgotten.

I remember doing a little student film where we had a guy that couldn’t pull focus. We ended up spending three times the amount of time shooting this thing as opposed to if the guy...

We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it automatically. We invent memories. Without thinking. If we tell ourselves something...

This is my home, Cape Breton is my home, and I don’t know if I really want to leave it as much as I might think and I’m sort of scared to leave it all...

Well I won’t back downNo I won’t back downYou can stand me up at the gates of hellBut I won’t back down

I was mixing iced tea and lemonade in my kitchen since as long as I can remember. It wasn’t until some time in the early 1960s that it became associated with me publicly.

Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain’t over ’til you both get your cookie.

I play out negative fantasies for people. I’m the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.

I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible and start auditioning for theater.

My mother was a famous photographer for actresses, including Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, and so many. I remember I went to school close to my mother’s studio, and for years, I went to the studio...

We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If...

Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn’t say she necessarily ‘taught’ me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to...

As long as I can remember, I’ve always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn’t encouraged very much.

I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.

I’m the best and I’ll thank you to remember that.

My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember him playing in bands and listening to the music he was writing in...

I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader....

I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.

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

‘Scarface,’ I remember going to see that with my father. We didn’t know what to expect; we did not know what to expect. I was a kid, and my father took me, and we didn’t...

Loving you is no more a beautiful memory, but now just a pain,I cry and weep every time I walk down the memory lane,Your love always completed me in every sense as a whole,But now...

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a ’70s cop movie location; when the original loft-owners were more dash-than-cash, artistic types.

Reality shows. I’ll watch them, but I won’t tell anyone I’ll watch them. I remember when the first British ‘Big Brother’ was on. I watched that Nasty Nick. I never watched it since, but I...

Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to...

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other...

I remember being told ‘Someone’s gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing’ and thinking ‘no way’.

I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really young, like 14 or something. And I remember my feet...

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it’s all part...

I remember talking to someone early on after I was sober about how I suddenly felt awkward at parties. They said, ‘Well, you’re supposed to. Everyone feels awkward at parties.’ It’s an appropriate feeling to...

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut ’em out the rest of the...

I remember a concert for a visiting girls school, and that was the first time I ever sang – it was always about girls – that was the main thing. But somewhere along the line,...

Love allows us to remember the joy, and forget the pain. That’s why I write things down, to help me remember.

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

My Mum always says to have fun; remember that fashion is about fun, and that is the most important thing because sometimes, people take it very seriously. Great advice to remember!

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

If you offer some good plans to a person and you face the rejection, don’t ever mind bad. When you planned something for a person, a person may, too was planning something for himself. To...

I remember being about eight and watching ‘Pollyanna’ with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, ‘Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.’ She said, ‘You’re going to have to make yourself cry if...

i want to remember

When I was growing up, Brandy was TV star, reality star, a pop star, a Cover girl, Grammy winner, had her own Brandy doll, and was the first African American to play Disney princess Cinderella....

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‘Where did we come from, what happens next?’ The ability to remember the past helps...

What I learn today I shall know forever. Whether or not I remember that I know it is a different story.

I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that – it still seems freaky.

Football players should always remember there’s a whole lot more to life.

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

It’s true: I don’t remember what life was like before parenthood.