“I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.” WritingYearsDreamRememberNextFatherLeftFiveMinesMonthsScenePagesEightTwinsFragments Author:Tamora Pierce
“Remember, it's very simple to have an oven tested professionally, and it only takes about five minutes.” RememberSimpleFiveMinutesTestedFive MinutesOvens Author:Delia Smith
“I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee-with lots of sugar. And there's lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It's a thick shake. In a silver goblet. I would get a rush from all this sugar, and I would get so many ideas! I would write them on these napkins. It was like I had a desk with paper. All I had to do was remember to bring my pen, but a waitress would give me one if I remembered to return it at the end of my stay. I got a lot of ideas at Bob's.” IfsGivingWritingYearsIdeasEndsBigsRememberBoysFiveFourReturnPaperSixGive MeSevenCoffeeCupsRememberedShakesSilverChocolatePensLunchSugarThickBobDesksSeven YearsOrderlyCoffee CupWaitressNapkins Author:David
“In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." With that, the conversation was over.” SaidI CanMomentsUseRememberUsedNumbersFiveFourCuttingFitConversationMy FriendsAgreementImpressedElephantsDesperationArbitraryProceduresCalculationsTrunksParametersNot ImpressedVon Neumann Author:Freeman Dyson
“I'm horrified to find, as I look at these diaries of twenty-five years ago or more, that I don't remember who the people were. "Bill and Tony were constantly in and out. We went to La Jolla" - or something. I haven't the bluest idea who they were!” PeopleYearsLooksIdeasRememberFiveHavensYears AgoTwentiesBillsFive YearsDiariesTwenty Five Author:Christopher Isherwood
“I remember attending Toronto Comicon shortly after the release of Captain Marvel and seeing a five-year-old girl who'd come in a handmade Captain Marvel outfit with her hair moussed up - and I totally got the need for this book, for this hero. Someone who looks like her, and acts like her. So, in a way, Captain Marvel helped pave the road to the expanded role of female leads.” WayNeedsYearsLooksBookRememberGirlRolesFiveSeeingHairHeroFemaleReleaseComicFive YearsCaptainsComic BookAttendingLike HerTorontoFive Year OldsHandmade Author:Axel Alonso
“It sounds blase but there is a certain amount of luck. We'd all like to take a certain amount of credit for Kevin Doyle... I can't really remember what it was I particularly liked about Kevin when I watched him in Ireland. I had five pints of Guinness in the afternoon and it was all a bit blurred.” I CanRememberCertainBitsSoundFiveFootballAmountLuckCreditManagersSoccerAfternoonIrelandChairmanKevinPintsGuinness Author:Steve Coppell
“Remember I've seen a video tape of a Scotland-England match and I've seen him miss a chance from five yards. It was against England and he couldn't score. So what does that say?” DoeRememberChanceFiveMissingFootballEnglandVideoManagersSoccerScoreTapeYardsScotlandChairman Author:Berti Vogts
“You remember when you were maybe five years old and you went out in the morning and you looked at the day - and it was a very, very beautiful day. You looked at flowers and they were very beautiful flowers. Twenty-five years later, you get up in the morning, you take a look at the flowers - they are wilted. The day isn't a happy day. Well, what's changed? You know they are the same flowers, it's the same world. Something must have changed. Well, probably it was you.” KnowsWorldYearsWellsLooksBeautifulRememberMorningFiveChangedFlowerTwentiesGet UpFive YearsRemember WhenTwenty FiveVery BeautifulFive Year OldsHappy DayBeautiful DayBeautiful Flower Book:Scientology, a New Slant on Life Source: Scientology, a New Slant on Life
“The average person's short-term memory can hold only five to seven bits of data at any one moment. If you put more items in, others fall out. The older you are, the more you have crammed into those memory circuits. Twenty-five-year-olds can remember things because they still have empty space. Some of us take our children to the supermarket in the hope they will remember why we are there.” IfsYearsChildrenPersonsStillsMomentsRememberFallBitsTermMemoriesSpaceFiveEmptyTwentiesOur ChildrenSevenAverageDataFive YearsItemsShort TermTwenty FiveCircuitsSupermarketsAverage PersonEmpty SpaceFive Year OldsShort Term Memory Book:Thinking In The Future Tense Source: Thinking In The Future Tense
“I don't remember what script it was, but at the Monday table read, the [opening] teaser didn't work.We went back and had to think of a new teaser, and [after] four hours, five hours, we weren't landing on anything.And it was probably Glen [Charles] who said, "What are we, cowards?" You had to do it, no matter how long it took.” ThinkingLongSaidMatterRememberHoursFiveFourTablesScriptsOpeningCowardMondayLandingTeasers Author:David Lee
“I grew up in a very small house with five brothers and sisters and my parents, all with one little bathroom. And from as early as I can remember, seven, eight years old, I was listening to music to get a way from it all. Then the discovery of all this amazing stuff that became more than just getting away from it, it became a part of my DNA.” WayYearsLittlesI CanRememberHouseStuffParentFiveBrotherListeningGrewGrew UpDiscoverySevenEightGet AwayBrothers And SistersDnaBathroomListening To Music Author:John Varvatos
“I remember seeing Aladdin when I was five or six and loving it. I looked at the big screen and said to my mum, Whatever this Genie guy does, I want to do. Mum said I couldnt be a genie, but that Robin Williams, who did the voice-over in the film, was an actor. So I said, OK, then, I want to be an actor.” WantDoeSaidBigsRememberFilmGuyActorsVoiceFiveSeeingSixScreensMumRobinsBig ScreenGeniesVoice Over Author:Darren Criss
“I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.” StillsRememberDesireInterestAttentionFiveConvictionSalesmanship Author:Annette Bening
“The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.” FirstsPlayRememberDesireFiveFourDying Author:Alicia Keys
“I'm not someone who can be depended one five days a week. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday? I don't even get out of bed five days in a row-I often don't remember to eat five days in a row. Reporting to a workplace, where I should need to stay for eight hours-eight big hours outside my home- was unfeasible.” NeedsShouldHomeBigsRememberHoursFiveWeekBedEightWorkplaceMondayFridayTuesdayWednesdayThursday Author:Gillian Flynn
“I remember in 37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.” BigsRememberUsedFiveAirCarNew YorkUsed To BeBusCentsSpiralsGreat DayStaircasesTrolleysSpiral Staircases Author:Tiny Tim
“Would I if I could by pushing a button would I kill five thousand Chinamen if I could save my brother from anything. Well I was very fond of my brother and I could completely imagine his suffering and I replied that five thousand Chinamen was something I could not imagine and so it was not interesting. One has to remember that about imagination, that is when the world gets dull when everybody does not know what they can or what they cannot really imagine.” IfsKnowsWorldWellsDoeRememberSufferingImaginationInterestingFiveImagineBrotherThousandMy BrotherDullIf I CouldPushingButtons Author:Gertrude Stein
“When people ask me how I develop recipes, I have to respond: "travelling, eating, watching, experimenting, and constantly asking myself: 'Do I want to eat this dish again?'" Will I yearn for it some evening when I'm hungry? Will I remember it in six months' time? In a year? Five years from now?” PeopleWantYearsRememberAsksFiveMonthsTravelSixEatingAskingHungryEveningAsk MeFive YearsDishesRecipesSix Months Author:Paula Wolfert
“I went to a Presbyterian college, you know, I was in... all the way, and so I remember doing my first sermon when I was 17, I was in high school. It wasn't a full twenty-five minute sermon, but for like ten minutes I got up and they let me do that, and it was on faith.” KnowsWayFirstsSchoolRememberFiveMinutesCollegeTenHigh SchoolLet MeTwentiesSermonsFive MinutesTwenty FivePresbyterians Author:Woody Harrelson
“I never, in any city I've ever been in, never remember the names of streets. The longest place I ever lived in was for five years and I didn't know the name of the next street over.” KnowsYearsRememberNextNamesCitiesFiveStreetsFive Years Author:Christian Bale
“[Facebook] is shaping a broader web. If you look back for the past five or seven years, the story about social networking has really been about getting people connected... But if you look forward for the next five years, I think that the story people are going to remember five years from now isn't how this one site was built; it is how every single service that you use is now going to be better with your friends.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsLooksStoriesUsePastRememberNextSocialFiveBuiltSevenConnectedFive YearsSiteSeven YearsNetworkingSocial NetworkingSocial NetworkStory People Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“Remembering that Eratosthenes of Cyrene, employing mathematical theories and geometrical methods, discovered from the course of the sun, the shadows cast by an equinoctial gnomon, and the inclination of the heaven that the circumference of the earth is two hundred and fifty-two thousand stadia, that is, thirty-one million five hundred thousand paces.” TwoEarthRememberCoursesHeavenMillionsSunFiveTheoryThousandHundredShadowMethodCastsMathematicalThirtyFiftyPaceInclinationEmploying Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.” ChildrenI CanAgeRememberCertainFiveForgottenConvinced Author:Roald Dahl
“My relationship with brick-and-mortar shopping is, in general, unpleasant. I can't remember a time in my life when I could go to a physical store and find a variety of things in my size that excited me and fit my personal style. As a plus-size shopper at a typical mall, you're limited to at most five stores out of maybe 50 clothing retailers. That leaves us with very few options and, for people on a tight budget, pretty much no chance of comparison shopping. You take what you can get.” PeopleI CanRememberChanceFiveStyleFitSizeExcitedStoresVarietyBudgetsComparisonPlusShoppingClothingsTypicalBricksMallsPersonal StyleMortarRetailersShoppersPlus SizeBricks And Mortar Author:Lindy West
“The earliest memories I have from my childhood are of my mum getting ready to go on stage. I must have been about five and I would watch her vomiting backstage on opening night, and then the next minute she became Isabella, the Queen of Spain. At the time I remember thinking, 'What kind of schizophrenic job is this?' Now it all makes sense.” ThinkingKindHas BeensJobsRememberNightNextMemoriesWatchesFiveChildhoodMinutesStageReadyGoes OnOpeningMake SenseQueensMumSpainSchizophrenicVomitingOpening Night Author:Javier Bardem
“My father played in high school. My uncles played. From age five or six, I remember watching all the games. And I remember saying to my mom and dad even then that I was going to play in the NFL, and buy them a house and a car.” PlayAgeSchoolRememberFatherGamesHouseFiveCarMomDadSixHigh SchoolMy MomNflUnclesMom And Dad Author:Thomas Jones
“At the other end of the scale I was there with a whole lot of young British athletes so I was getting to see them take their first steps on the international ladder. I'd like to think maybe in five years time I'll look back and I'll forget all about the lost luggage and I'll forget about the horrible hotel, but I'll remember these wonderful athletes stepping onto the track for the first time.” ThinkingYearsFirstsLooksEndsWholeRememberYoungLostForgetStepsFiveWonderfulFirst TimeInternationalAthleteTrackBritishScalesHorribleFive YearsHotelFirst StepsLaddersLuggage Author:Jill Douglas
“I remember when I did 'Click' and I'd see Adam Sandler's fan base. He's the guy that people feel that he's their best friend, so he's walking down the street and people sort of high five him and want to tell him a joke or invite him to come home and have a sandwich with them.” PeopleWantFeelsHomeRememberGuyFiveFansStreetsWalkingJokesComing HomeInvitesAdamRemember WhenSandwichesClicks Author:Kate Beckinsale
“I must say, I am thrilled with my fan base. For some reason some of them are quite young, so they are quite frightened. I remember when I did 'Click' and I'd see Adam Sandler's fan base. He's the guy that people feel that he's their best friend, so he's walking down the street and people sort of high five him and want to tell him a joke or invite him to come home and have a sandwich with them. Mine are not like that. Mine tend to go: 'Argh,' and look horrified. They shake and take a picture from a really long way away. I do feel I've got quite good, respectful ones though.” PeopleWayWantFeelsLooksLongReasonHomeRememberYoungGuyFiveFansStreetsMinesWalkingJokesShakesComing HomeFrightenedInvitesAdamRemember WhenLong WaySandwichesRespectfulClicksReally Long Author:Colin Farrell
“Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the conventions of fiction and it's astonishing how in so many of these books people seem to be able to remember conversations that took place when they were five years old and give three pages of coherent dialogue, which is utterly impossible.” PeopleGivingYearsBookUseSeemsAbleRememberThreeFictionFiveImpossibleSceneTenConversationPagesMemoirDialogueFive YearsConventionsAstonishingFive Year Olds Author:Paul Auster
“I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.” YearsRememberGuyMillionsFiveCryMad Author:Eric Davis
“People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear. Although the moment that it happens might be terribly sad and moving, five minutes later, if you're asked to remember that person, you go, "Oh right, yeah, yeah!" 'Cause you're just moving forward.” PeopleIfsPersonsMomentsMightHappensRememberMovingDiesCausesFiveMinutesYeahDisappearMoving ForwardFive MinutesTrue You Author:Danny Boyle
“I remember exiting the birth canal and suddenly I was in a film. But you are never really in charge of that. The movie came out about five or six months ago in America. It was Miramax in the States and Disney here [fakes falling asleep]. What happened. I love working for Disney, not Walt specifically because he couldn't be more dead, but the company is fantastic.” StatesAmericaRememberFilmFallCompanyFiveHappenedMonthsBirthSixFantasticFakeSix MonthsWaltCanalsFalling Asleep Author:Ryan Reynolds
“Dutch beaches were known to me as man-made territories, as part of various land reclamation projects. But I was also interested in the media reality of the Moon landing. I wanted to use that event as a measure of time, to see what had happened in those thirty years - which happens to be my lifetime as well. I was born in 1967 and I remember seeing the Moon landing on TV when I was two. All those things were in play. Then it became a big production. It took five months to gather up the goodwill and make it happen.” MenYearsWellsMadeTwoPlayUseBigsRealityHappensWantedRememberBornKnownFiveSeeingHappenedLandMediaEventsTvsMonthsMoonProjectsLifetimeProductionsVariousBeachThirtyTerritoryMake It HappenGoodwillThirty YearsLandingDutchMoon LandingReclamation Author:Aleksandra Mir
“For the first five years of music and first five years of acting, I don't remember it because I was running to where I was going. Finally I was like, 'Man, I missed everything.' So I just stopped, and I started looking around.” MenYearsFirstsRunningRememberActingFiveFive Years Author:Christian Kane
“I have an older sister and my mom would dress us up identically, so in all of our pictures, we're in these giant pink, poufy outfits. I remember when I was four or five, we all went to a theme park and I had to go to the bathroom but couldn't hold it in anymore. Let's just say, I had to buy a brand new outfit! But that moment was the first time I remember ever wearing something different from my sister at an event. It was my breakthrough moment when I decided I was never going to match my sister again!” FirstsDifferentMomentsRememberFiveFourEventsMomFirst TimeDecidedDressesMy MomBrandsGiantsParksThemeThat MomentMy SisterBathroomRemember WhenBreakthroughBrand NewOutfitsOlder SisterTheme Parks Author:Analeigh Tipton
“It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason” WellsReasonRememberFiveWineExcellenceDrinkingThirstGrapesArrivalsWine GlassVineyardsDrinking WineGreat WineBest WineWine And LoveWine ToastDrinking ChampagneWine LoveWine LoversDrinking ToastWine With FriendsWine And FriendsCognacDrinking With Friends Author:W. C. Fields
“Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four.” IfsKnowsWantShouldFirstsImportantIdeasHomeRememberLanguageFiveFourLandMinutesFoolLettersShould HaveSentencesDamnI Want YouEnglish LanguageParagraphFood LoveImportant Words Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“It's funny what [producer Richard Zanuck said about even though you can't quite place when the book or the story came into your life, and I do vaguely remember roughly five years old reading versions of Alice in Wonderland, but the thing is the characters. You always know the characters. Everyone knows the characters and they're very well-defined characters, which I always thought was fascinating. Most people who haven't read the book definitely know the characters and reference them.” PeopleKnowsYearsWellsSaidBookCharacterStoriesRememberReadingFiveHavensVersionsProducersDefinedFive YearsFascinatingWonderlandFive Year Olds Author:Johnny Depp
“When I was four, I think I just wanted to make noise. When I was about 10 years old I was given five CDs for my birthday: Pink Floyd's 'Dark side of the Moon,' the Sex Pistols, Prodigy, Jimi Hendrix, and I can't remember the fifth one, but really different kinds of music. That's when I started to grasp it and enjoy it, listening to it. Then I started being in bands at school.” ThinkingYearsKindI CanDifferentWantedSchoolRememberGivenSexEnjoySidesDarkFiveFourListeningMoonBandNoiseDifferent KindsFifthCdsDark SideMy BirthdayPistolsHendrixProdigiesDifferent Kinds Of MusicSex Pistols Author:Eliot Paulina Sumner
“Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their hearts they've done a good thing, too, and are more satisfied with themselves than most people are. Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.” PeopleKnowsYearsHeartEndsDoneJobsRememberFiveTeacherHeroSixTwentiesGood ThingsSatisfiedThirtyFortySuspects Author:Andy Rooney