Top 66 Forgets Quotes

No one forgets their first love. You’re experiencing all those endorphins and all that dopamine and that obsession with one another for the very first time in your life, so it makes it that much more cute.

I feel like my job as a storyteller and director is to create an experience where the audience forgets they’re in a cinema and can get lost in the story. Things popping out of the screen call attention to the artifice of what you’re doing, so I use 3D as more of a window into a world behind the screen.

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man’s suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

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

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

People have a very short attention span when it comes to television, but nobody forgets the movie you do.

The guy comes up to the plate, there’s always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.

It is expected that a children’s story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was.

The term ‘perjury trap’ means interviewing someone for no underlying crime and no other purpose except with the hope that the person forgets something, or another witness remembers things differently. Either way, somebody gets charged with perjury.

I didn’t want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. ‘I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.’ I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, ‘This is me! This is me!’

Well, I think everybody’s a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.

You – I don’t think anybody ever forgets the first person they fell in love with. That’s something that everybody remembers, and it doesn’t matter what the time period is or where; I mean, those feelings are always the same.

September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.

Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.

If someone close to me forgets my birthday, I am heartbroken.

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.

In fact, one of the conversations I had with Jason Garrett, you know, sometimes X’s and O’s get so complicated, and a coach gets so into that that he forgets the most important thing is players win ballgames. Make sure that the players are properly equipped and motivated to do their jobs.

The world forgets about people who are not useful.

Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!

You go through playoff series and people forget about them. Nobody forgets about a Rangers-Devils series. It’s demanding.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

I would do a film, make the money, then take off for six months to Europe, India or Russia. My agent told me that I had to stay in town if I ever wanted to build a career, because everyone forgets about you.

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

Everyone always says the middle child is the worst or whatever – what do they say? That everyone forgets about them? But that’s not true. That’s not true in my family.

With bullying and all the stuff going on, words are very important. Words can be more hurtful than anything physically. I got little kids, and it’s common sense when you’re raising them that the main thing is how you talk to people, and how you treat people. Sometimes I think the world forgets that as we get older.

The minute you do any layoffs, you might as well lay off the whole joint because everybody forgets about the customer and worries about their job security.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

When television gets in trouble is when it forgets that it all begins with the written word.

But there’s something delightfully old-school about sitting in the BBC – obviously wearing a bow tie and monocle – with a co-presenter who forgets there’s a webcam in there. It’s also nice to hear from the general public when they’re not swearing at you or asking to extend their credit limit.

There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

Joy is a subtle elf; I think one’s happiest when he forgets himself.

I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity.

The compliment that I like more than anything is when my family tells me I’m the same Ryan. I never want to become a celeb who forgets about anybody or has a big head about himself.

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

Wall Street apparently takes and then forgets, and then comes after the guns of law-abiding American citizens and small businesses.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies… the medium doesn’t matter, so long as it inspires you.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

Everybody forgets names and faces, and it’s just inconsiderate to expect someone who isn’t your boss or your sister-in-law to know exactly who you are.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

I love Justin Bieber. There are times where people only report negative things about him, but everyone forgets how incredibly talented he really is.

If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?

I think it’s all about confidence and having a regular run in the team. The rest takes care of itself; a footballer never forgets how to play football, and I’m convinced that game time, matches, was all I needed because, ultimately, no one forgets how to score goals.

I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor’s office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey – ‘Here’s the lady who brought the roses’ vs. ‘Here’s the lung cancer.’

Unlike movies, on stage there are no second chances. Everything is live. If someone messes up, forgets a line, gives the wrong cue, you need to have the presence of mind to move the play along.

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

All men are chums who will never leave each other in the lurch. A chum doesn’t forgive, he just forgets – women forgive everything but never forget. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

I am not someone who forgets things and changes his way of thinking.