“So many of my memories are generated by and organized around food: what I ate, what people cooked, what I cooked, what I ordered in a restaurant. My mental palate is also inextricably intertwined with the verbal part of my brain. Food, words, memories all twist together, so it was the obvious way to structure my life. Each memory of food opened up an entire scene for me, it was the key that unlocked everything.” PeopleWayTogetherMemoriesBrainKeysSceneStructureObviousOrganizedRestaurantsTwistsPalateIntertwined Author:Kate Christensen
“If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story across. You'd like to avoid it just being other people's memories and interpretations.” PeopleIfsFirstsPersonsEnoughStoriesMemoriesSubjectsMaterialsInterpretationJust BeingFirst Person Author:Brian Lindstrom
“If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don't know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you know. Who are these people? Your parents are never in the picture, because they are the ones taking them. So you've got these unrelated images that are disconnected from your memories.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayPastParentMemoriesPhotographBunchRecallsCharmingOur PastUnclesAuntYour PastOur MemoriesDrawersDisconnectedPostmanOld Photographs Author:Gail Zappa
“As for not getting things right: I constantly rerun social situations/conversations I experience/have throughout my head, and I'm always writing them down in notebooks or in word documents/the Internet. I feel like these habits and a generally good memory of people/the interactions I have with them (due to studying people having always been my main interest in life) have lead me to being very accurate in things I write in stories/essays.” PeopleFeelsWritingStoriesSocialInterestMemoriesSituationStudyInternetHabitConversationDuesInteractionAccurateDocumentsEssaysNotebookLeading MeGood MemoriesRerunsInterest In Life Author:Marie Calloway
“I also did a great amount of writing while doing research. It gave me the opportunity to meet and talk to people other than family, but also to explore my own memory deeper by comparing it to the memories of others who were in my home town during, for example, the political transition from socialism to a nationalistic "democracy" or during the bombings.” PeopleWritingHomePoliticalOpportunityMemoriesMy OwnDemocracyExampleAmountResearchTownsDeeperSocialismCompareTransitionBombingNationalisticHome Town Author:Sasa Stanisic
“I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity.” PeopleMemoriesCatholicNeighborhoodMarchChicagoVividPolishEthnicityParishVivid MemoriesLithuanians Author:Sara Paretsky
“However, for story reasons, we needed to represent them in certain ways. One of the things that sort of blew me away that I didn't know when we started is that memories are completely susceptible to change. And this is, you know, one of the many reasons why certain people are trying to get it taken out - eyewitness testimony in court cases because it's very unreliable.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingReasonStoriesCertainMemoriesCasesTakenNeededCourtReason WhyTestimonySusceptibleUnreliableEyewitnessesCourt Cases Author:Pete Docter
“The problem with an autobiography is that all these extra factors make it difficult. You don't want to hurt people's feelings. You don't know how much you can trust your memory. You don't want it to be self-serving. And you have all these issues about how to present yourself. All these factors make it harder to do than a novel.” PeopleKnowsWantSelfFeelingsProblemDifficultHurtMemoriesNovelKnow HowIssuesHarderFactorsExtrasServingAutobiographyOur MemoriesSelf Serving Author:Richard Hell
“If I take that person and play them as a record I'm becoming not only a conductor and composer of collage, but at the same time I'm looking at a whole layer of what goes into copyright law, who owns those memories, who owns the way that that sound gets remixed and transformed and above all how much fun it is to actually just mess with other people's stuff.” PeopleIfsWayPersonsPlayWholeLawFunStuffSoundMemoriesRecordsBecomingMessComposerTransformedLayersConductorCopyrightCollagesCopyright Law Author:DJ Spooky
“I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories of songs.” PeopleKnowsKindIdeasSongMemoriesLike YouMotifsTricksters Author:DJ Spooky
“So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.” PeopleFeelsTurnsMemoriesSilenceForgottenBad Memories Author:Mallory Ortberg
“I'd rather speak as a student of philosophy. Philosophically it makes no sense, absolutely makes no sense. Why should people inherit evil things when their memories could contain and should invoke good things?” PeopleShouldPhilosophyEvilSpeakMemoriesStudentsGood ThingsInvokeEvil Things Author:Elie Wiesel
“There have been studies done on people who meditate and they have found that they actually have increased grey matter in certain parts of their brain and more neural conductivity, meaning more connections between certain parts of the brain. They have increased capacity for, in some cases, memory, or reasoning.” PeopleHas BeensMatterDoneCertainFoundMemoriesBrainCasesStudyCapacityConnectionsReasoningGreyGrey Matter Author:Jennifer Ashton
“You can keep your memory intact, preserve your brain's health, and minimize the risk of aging and senile dementia, things that are greatly feared as people grow older.” PeopleGrowsMemoriesBrainRiskAgingPreservesOur MemoriesDementiaSenile Author:Deepak Chopra
“I think the show has so many wonderful memories connected to it for lots of people. When fans come to see me at the Andy Griffith Museum they get so emotional. Some of them cry, lots of them hug me and some want a kiss on the cheek.” PeopleThinkingWantShowsMemoriesWonderfulFansCryEmotionalKissingConnectedMuseumsCheeksHugHug MeWonderful Memories Author:Betty Lynn
“I had the total attention of both my parents, and was secure in the knowledge of being loved ... My memories of falling asleep at night are to the comfortable sound of my parents' voices, voices which conveyed in their tones the message that these two people loved and trusted one another.” PeopleTwoNightFallParentSoundVoiceMemoriesAttentionComfortableMessagesSecureToneTrustedBeing LovedFalling Asleep Author:Jill Ker Conway
“Songs hold different memories for different people and the great ones are the ones that become a part of you and your story.” PeopleDifferentStoriesSongMemoriesDifferent PeoplesGreat Ones Author:Georgia Nott
“The idea that when you correct a fact, you erase that fact from people's memories is the reverse of the truth. When you correct a fact, what you do is you further lodge that fact into people's minds, and they remember the error.” PeopleMindIdeasFactsRememberMemoriesErrorsReverseEraseLodges Author:David Brooks
“The engine room really is a metaphor for my head, and all the things bangin' around, and I think I share that with a lot of people. A lot of memories, and a lot of hopes, and a lot of just dealing with the day-to-day. Sometimes it gets all abstract.” PeopleThinkingSometimesMemoriesRoomsShareMetaphorAbstractEnginesDay To Day Author:Mike Watt
“When I was thinking about all the things that the world had forgotten, it made me think about people who have actually really forgotten everything, and how much of our identity is wrapped up in those memories, and how much of our experience makes us who we are, and remembering those experiences makes us who we are.” PeopleThinkingWorldMadeRememberMemoriesIdentityForgottenWho We Are Author:Sharon Cameron
“It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture came under this absurd cloud of controversy. Here was a movie based on the central theme that racism is something that is taught, and it's illustrated by this story of a dog and the efforts of humans to re-train it after it had been trained to go after black people. And it created this ridiculous controversy and wound up being the last Hollywood movie that Sam [Fuller] made.” PeopleHumansMadeBookStoriesLastsBlackMemoriesEffortWonderfulDogTaughtRacismHollywoodTrainCloudsWoundsRidiculousAbsurdThemeBlack PeopleControversySad ThingsHollywood MoviesWonderful Experience Author:Curtis Hanson
“An entire wall in my home is covered with framed pictures of my family and friends. It's nice to go home after a long week of traveling for work and be reminded of memories with the people I love.” PeopleLongHomeMemoriesNiceWeekWallMy FamilyCoveredFamily And FriendsFramedLong Week Author:Karlie Kloss
“There's an increase in serious weight disorders from cellphone use. And people who don't sleep have serious other consequences for their health that can be associated with it. There may be as well increases in problems with their memory. And all of those things are not as sexy and don't demand as much attention as cancer, but they can be very, very important from a public health point of view.” PeopleWellsMayImportantUseProblemMemoriesSleepViewsAttentionSeriousDemandConsequenceWeightIncreaseCancerSexyPoint Of ViewDisorderPublic HealthCellphone Author:Devra Davis
“I don't have kids, but I've often noticed when people first become parents they seem to completely forget their own adolescence and they start to, as their kids become teenagers, try to do the things that didn't stop them themselves. And I jokingly frame this as: Your brain gets wiped of those memories when you become a parent.” PeopleTryingFirstsSeemsKidsParentMemoriesForgetBrainTeenagerAdolescence Author:Maia Szalavitz
“When people come up to me and say, "I was at your Game 7 in the playoffs in Toronto," or, "I saw your first goal in the NHL," that triggers memories. But I don't sit around my kitchen table and tell my kids, "You know, one year I got 92 goals."” PeopleKnowsYearsFirstsKidsGamesGoalMemoriesSawsTablesCome UpKitchenTriggersNhlTorontoPlayoffsKitchen Table Author:Wayne Gretzky