The harrowing memory of the rape continues to this day. I have reoccurring nightmares, I wake up in fear, I fear the dark. I struggle to discuss this even with my beloved husband of six years. – Janice Dickinson On trauma of being allegedly raped by comedian Bill Cosby.
You think about some of the most memorable meals you’ve ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste. – Heston Blumenthal
People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone – their address book is in a cell phone. – Gordon Bell
Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one’s head. – Harold Brodkey
Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that’s why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now. – Gregg Easterbrook
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory. – Haruki Murakami
The AAC at Royal Melbourne was a wonderful memory for me. I had a slightly disappointing finish, but I gained a lot of experience by playing in the last group. – Guan Tianlang
My favorite memory is, as a freshman, going to Carolina and beating them. Going over there and winning on their court. I think that was the only time I did win on their court. – Grant Hill
For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time. – George Sutherland
Americans who grew up in the 1930s or 1940s still have some fleeting memory of what the country was like before it became the steroidal superpower it is today. – Graydon Carter
If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I’m close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I’m bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things. – Hugh Jackman
My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it. – Haruki Murakami
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! – Henry David Thoreau
But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people’s minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties. – Hjalmar Schacht
Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don’t remember what happened yesterday. – Howard Fast
Women have a better sense of color and a better color memory. They’re more likely to notice when something doesn’t match; more likely to notice what you’re wearing. – Helen Fisher
Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get typecast. I have a vague memory of wearing wings. – Hannah Murray
Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain – not falsification, but a shifting. – Gunter Grass
Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. – Georges Duhamel
We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. – Henri Cartier-Bresson
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven’t left any holes, that you’ve captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late. – Henri Cartier-Bresson
The periods between my 11th and 18th years remain the most vivid in my memory because this was the time of my first attempts at experimentation, which might never have been made had I lived in the city. I made hazardous investigations of the principles of flight, launching myself from the tops of haystacks with a homemade glider. – Godfrey Hounsfield
‘Wolf Hall’ attempts to duplicate not the historian’s chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes. – Hilary Mantel
I don’t think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it’s important to be able to remember things accurately. – Gordon Bell
Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way. – Gunter Grass
My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor – my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound. – Griffin Dunne
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. – Georges Duhamel