Ken Loach Quotes

I don't remember what I did fifty years ago.

People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

And what did I think when I was small and why did I forget? And what else will I forget when I grow older? And if you forget is it as if it never happened? Will none of the things you saw or thought or dreamed matter?

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

My memory is not that good anymore.

Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .

The older I get, the less I remember.

She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.

I have lost my short-term memory - I'm just getting blonder by the day.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.

People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'

When you're 89, dementia develops. I mean, I've told a story onstage, and I'm telling it with a full heart, and I forgot the damn punch line.

Whether it's my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I've worked with somebody or not.