Memory quotes

“You shouldn't keep souvenirs of a killing. You shouldn't have been that sentimental.”
James Stewart - John 'Scottie' Ferguson

“The good stuff? The pictures in our mind that fade away the fastest? Those pieces of you it feels the easiest to lose.”
Wyatt Oleff - Young Stanley Uris

“How long have we been on this rock? Five weeks? Two Days? Where are we? Help me to recollect!”

Willem Dafoe - Thomas Wake

“You can put things from the Overlook away in boxes, but not memories. They are the real ghosts. You take them with you.”
Carl Lumbly - Dick Hallorann

“Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines.”
Jon Hamm

“- Peterson: You mean Mrs. Chelm is an unqualified liar?
- Billy Dannreuther: Well, let's say she uses her imagination rather than her memory.”
Robert Morley - Peterson
Humphrey Bogart - Billy Dannreuther

“We are all at war, at war with ourselves. And Raven had been waging that war for most of her life. I hope now she's found peace. Raven died doing what she did best: helping a friend, a friend in need. She is not gone. She lives on through me, through us, and through the spirit of the X-Men.”
James McAvoy - Professor Charles Xavier

“Some of us are cursed with memories like flypaper. Stuck there is a staggering amount of miscellaneous data, most of it useless.”
Robert Stephens - Sherlock Holmes

“- Tree Gelbman: What happened?
- Andrea 'Dre' Morgan: Oh, the vector's off.
- Tree Gelbman: [worried] But you said this was the right one.
- Andrea 'Dre' Morgan: No, the math was right. Something else is off.
- Tree Gelbman: Guys, I have literally been killing myself to memorize this shit for you. Failure's not an option.”
Jessica Rothe - Tree Gelbman
Sarah Yarkin - Andrea 'Dre' Morgan

“Why deny the obvious necessity for memory?”
Emmanuelle Riva - Elle

You remember back in high school? I was starting to get really good at poker, went home with lots of lunch money? I got to know the principal's office really well. He always used to say to me "why can't you be more like your brother Peter". I was ok with that, I was proud of you and I was never jealous of anything that you had.
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Bill Pullman - Jack

“Sadness... Mom and Dad... the team. They came to help... because of Sadness.”

Amy Poehler - Joy

“- Dan Merrick: You know what I like best about amnesia?
- Judith Merrick: What?
- Dan Merrick: After seven years of marriage, I get to fall in love with you all over again.”
Tom Berenger - Dan Merrick
Greta Scacchi - Judith Merrick

“- Kira Hudson: Remember that night under the roller coaster? We parked under the rain and got those little bottles of Jack. That was the first time you told me you loved me.
- Nick Gant: I remember.
- Kira Hudson: Never happened. We met for the first time yesterday. You've never been to Coney Island. Nobody's been to Coney Island. I used you, Nick.”
Camilla Belle - Kira Hudson

“You are probably wondering why I keep appearing in your memories, John. It is because I have inserted myself into them.”

Kiefer Sutherland - Dr. Schreber

“- Capt. Crewe: What are you doing? Memorizing me by heart?
- Sara Crewe: No... I already know you by heart.”

Liam Cunningham - Capt. Crewe
Liesel Matthews - Sara Crewe

“- Gus Kubicek: I have something to tell you...
- Emily Pear: No, I have something to tell you. To ask you. Two questions: Are you gay?
- Gus Kubicek: Gay? No, I am not...
- Emily Pear: Great! Are you free of disease?
- Gus Kubicek: I've got an ingrown toenail, but, Emily I am...
- Emily Pear: Don't talk. That's all I wanted to know. God help me,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Steve Guttenberg - Gus Kubicek
Jami Gertz - Emily Pear

“I just don't remember.”
Emma Watson - Angela Grey

“I can remember everything. That's my curse, young man. It's the greatest curse that's ever been inflicted on the human race: memory.”
Joseph Cotten - Jedediah Leland

“Keep a memory of me, not as a king or a hero; but as a man: fallible and flawed.”
Ray Winstone - Beowulf

- Adrian Yates: Where do you want to begin?
- Mike Howell: [thinking, seeing flashbacks] Dustpan. Spoon. Noodles. Bear. Frying pan. Fire. Apollo Ape. "Marry Me". Where did it all begin? Okay, it started three days ago, in the town of Liman, West Virginia. It's where I lived with my girlfriend, Phoebe. She is the only good thing that's ever... (continue)(continue reading)

Christopher Grace - Adrian Yates
Jesse Eisenberg - Mike Howell

“Starting tomorrow there will be hourly tours of Roxy Carmichael's birthplace. You'll see where Roxy slept and where she ate during her wonder years. You'll also see pictures of her beloved dog, Bonkers.”
Micole Mercurio - Louise Garweski

“We cling to memories as if they define us, but... they really don't. What we do is what defines us.”
Juliette Binoche - Dr. Ouelet

“I have 94 per cent recall of all conversation. I tested it myself.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Truman Capote

Our daughters' daughters will adore us and they'll sing in grateful chorus, "Well done, sister suffragettes."
Glynis Johns - Mrs. Banks