Pharrell Williams Quotes

Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.

Even under normal conditions, how we can distinguish various events, various experiences, and be able to reproduce it later is, of course, a very interesting question and, I think, one that we face in day to day life.

So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that, because my experience seems to be so much different than what I'm told, so much of the time.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

My mother just wanted me to forget it. So, of course, every word was immediately, irrevocably branded into my brain.

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.

We all remember things, it's what we remember that determines how we live.

I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.

"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

What business does memory have with time?

People will never forget how you made them feel.

The life doesn't simply get erased. It gets imprinted and remembered.

Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.

When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.

Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.

Memory is imagination pinned down.

If there is a blues song, it just goes in one ear and out the other. But other than that, if it stays with you and when we are all 90, we're going to look back at those songs, and it's going to be emotional. And when someone plays it, and you know it, and you're going to go, "I know that song and I love it."