Carol Burnett Quotes

I have a very vivid memory.

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

I have a phenomenal memory. I remember every single thing that anybody said to me, ever did to me, who was nice to me and who was not nice to me.

I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.

I retain characters more often than plot, but what seems to happen is that I latch on to specific moments, turns of phrase, and dialogue as touchstones for me to recall what happened in the book. Kind of like freeze-frame.

And never forget, there is memory.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Interviewing is in some ways the art of memory.

Recalling, for me, is a great way of living, so not to forget.

When you learn a thing, try to use it sufficiently often not to forget it!

I take a lot of notes. Maybe it's a product of me taking so many notes, but I have a pretty good memory for episodes, and some of the other actors will ask me questions about things, so I have this sense of responsibility that I have to be the one to remember some of the details.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

I had a memory span about as long as the lines in a school play.

Writers are rememberers.

'Lead with LUV' is the first book I've ever done that's just a pure conversation between my coauthor and me.

I think memory is essential to what we are. If we - we wouldn't be able to talk to each other without memory. And what we think of as the present really is the past. It is made out of the past.

Everyone has ways of trying to find a way to memorise our past. There's something very poetic about that.

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

I don't forget nothing. It's a vault up here.

If you gave me an hour in the day between '09 and '14, I could have told you exactly where I was and what I was doing.

As a child, I learned hundreds of poems by heart, which I can recite to this day.

God has given each one of us a gift greater than a thousand I.B.M. machines. It is called a memory, and everything that passes through our five senses is stored in this faculty.

I am a sponge. I don't write things down.

I just have pretty good recall of information.

I vaguely remember doing [all my] photo sessions, but definitely there were some surprises there for me.