If the novelist isn’t surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn’t written anything worth remembering.
I don’t be remembering women that I’ve met before. I don’t remember people as a whole. It’s crazy. A lot of times, people get in their feelings, like, ‘You don’t remember me?!’
After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny’s words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
As long as I can keep remembering the lines and getting to the locations, I want to keep working as long as I can. I love it.
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
I am terrible at remembering names.
I just find that there’s something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it’s for posterity when I’m 75.
I believe accurately remembering – and honoring – our whole past is the first step in governing in a way that effectively represents the whole America.
During the writing of all of my books, I’ve learned that, most of all, people want to know that someone is listening and – this is the tricky part – remembering.
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn’t. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
If you come away from a show thinking of an image, that’s as good as remembering a joke. A lot of those shows, like ‘The Office,’ they are brilliant, but they’re not visually interesting.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.
There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.
The forward march of American literature is usually chronicled by way of its male novelists. There is little sense, in that version of the story, that women writers of those eras were doing much worth remembering.
The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.
I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.
The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn’t important. Perhaps the things we learn – words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details – don’t really matter. Facts can be looked up. That’s what the Internet is for.
I nicknamed everyone in the gym. It was easier than remembering their names.
I was never any good at remembering dates, but now I hardly have to. When the first bulb catalogs get delivered and the hens start laying again, that’s all the notice I’ll need to know that winter has passed.
The thing that got me closest to doing Kermit was remembering what Jim did when he was doing Kermit. When he would do Kermit, there were certain faces that he made. There was a certain way he stood, a certain kind of body language that he had.
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us in abolishing slavery and in extending full rights of citizenship to everyone, regardless of race.
I’m terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.
