Robert Lepage Quotes

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

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

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

The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.

I can remember weird things from way back, but not what I had for breakfast.

Why is it that I can remember so easily the lyrics to the opening theme song of 'Gilligan's Island?' Why do I remember these trivial things, and I can't remember the names of important collaborators?

I always wonder: the images that hit your brain when you're young are so significant, because there's not that much information in your brain. As you get older, things just bounce off. I can remember these minute details of stupid TV shows from the '70s, and I can't remember a book I read yesterday.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.

If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory into long term memory.

I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.

Short term memory is not good.

I have a terrible memory.

I have a great memory.

The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

Memory is a big one: our ability to use the memory and move things in and out efficiently - that affected what we were able to do more than anything.

Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.

believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. I could be shooting heroin with the Princess of Wales, naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still couldn't compare to the time the cops chased us after we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool in eleventh grade.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

People are machines of forgetfulness

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

I don't think I remember my first memory.

I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.