Robert Lepage Quotes

I have a great memory.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

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?

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

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

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

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

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

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Why do we remember stuff from when we were 5 years old but not important facts that are more recent?

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.

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

My teammates will tell you I find it hard to remember what happened two weeks earlier, let alone what happened a decade and a half back.

I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.

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

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

I have a terrible memory.

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.