Memory quotes

“- Martin: Such memories belong to another lifetime, mademoiselle. One which has come to an end. And which, unfortunately, some of us have outlived.
- Michele de la Becque: But why have our lifetimes come to an end, our private little worlds?”

Morris Ankrum - Martin
Joan Crawford - Michele de la Becque

“They mix and match our memories as they see fit, trying to divine what makes us unique.”

Kiefer Sutherland - Dr. Schreber

“All memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums had been erased by two decades of betrayal, failure and disaster.”
Alec Baldwin - Narrator

“Looking back is a bad habit.”
John Wayne - Rooster Cogburn

“Drinking don't bother my memory. If it did, I wouldn't drink. I couldn't. You see, I'd forget how good it was, then where'd I be? Start drinking water, again.”
Walter Brennan - Eddie

“- Kathy Lutz: I just wish that... all those people hadn't died here. I mean... A guy kills his whole family. Doesn't that bother you?
- George Lutz: Sure, but... houses don't have memories.”
Margot Kidder - Kathy Lutz
James Brolin - George Lutz

“Memories are short!”
Jamieson Price - Colonel

“- Dr. Keats: Tom lost part of his brain in a hunting accident. His memory only lasts ten seconds.
- Ten Second Tom: I was in an accident? That's terrible.
- Dr. Keats: Don't worry, you're totally gonna get over it in about three seconds.”
Dan Aykroyd - Dr. Keats
Allen Covert - Ten Second Tom

“Cold are the hands of time that creep along relentlessly, destroying slowly but without pity that which yesterday was young. Alone our memories resist this disintegration and grow more lovely with the passing years.”
Robert Dudley - Wienie King

“You remember that time - you were pretty drunk, you probably don't remember - but the power went out in that little apartment we had on Orange Street? We were staring at that one little candle, and I, I said something really dumb like, that candle was me, and like every one of us is out there alone in the dark in this life.”

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - Lindsey Brigman

“To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories at all.”
Hugh Jackman - Abraham Van Helsing

“Memories are like moonbeams, we do with them what we will.”
Kevin Spacey - Bobby Darin

“The mind becomes so saturated with popular images that it becomes impossible, especially with people under twenty, to remember anything unique.”
Dana Eskelson - Sketch Artist

“- Noodles: Well, at least you recognized me. That's something.
- Deborah: Actresses have good memories.”
Robert De Niro - Noodles
Elizabeth McGovern - Deborah

“Our races, united by a history long forgotten and a future we shall face together. I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message so that our past will always be remembered. For in those memories, we live on.”

Peter Cullen - Optimus Prime

“Do you think you can just build a prison of memories to lock her in? Do you really think that that's gonna contain her?”

Ellen Page - Ariadne

“In the end you start thinking about the beginning.”
Brad Pitt - John Smith

“- Pvt. Johnson - 1st Squad: Would you look at how fast they put the names of all our guys who got killed?
- The Sergeant: That's a World War One memorial.
- Pvt. Johnson - 1st Squad: But the name's are the same.
- The Sergeant: They always are.”

Kelly Ward - Pvt. Johnson - 1st Squad
Lee Marvin - The Sergeant

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”
Ingrid Bergman

“The heart of marriage is memories.”

Bill Cosby

“- Been on the Moon Since the 50's: This drug takes away your long term memory, leaves your short term memory - so there you are. Well, you got people who don't know who they are, where they came from. But you tell them something, and they do it. They can follow instructions. Perfect employees.
- Looking for Missing Friend: Sounds like most...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jerry Delony - Been on the Moon Since the 50's
Tommy Pallotta - Looking for Missing Friend

“Memory's not perfect. It's not even that good. Ask the police. Eyewitness testimony is unreliable. The cops don't catch a killer by sitting around remembering stuff. They collect facts, they make notes and they draw conclusions. Facts, not memory. That's how you investigate.”
Guy Pearce - Leonard Shelby

“- Cobb: Only use details, a street lamp or a phone booth, never entire areas.
- Ariadne: Why not?
- Cobb: Because building a dream from your memory is the easiest way to lose your grasp on what's real and what is a dream.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Cobb
Ellen Page - Ariadne

“- Prince Phillip: Don't you remember? We've met before.
- Princess Aurora: We... we have?
- Prince Phillip: But of course! You said so yourself. Once upon a dream.”
Bill Shirley - Prince Phillip
Mary Costa - Princess Aurora

“You don't walk off the roof of a building without leaving something behind.”
Keanu Reeves - John Constantine