Recall Quotes

• I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

  

  Rick Moranis
  • Everything
  • Nostalgic
  • Recall

• As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Girl
  • Stone
  • Recall

• I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Recall
  • Self-Awareness

• When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Heart
  • Through
  • Recall

• I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Time
  • Me
  • Wear

• It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.

  

  Plutarch
  • Silent
  • Recall
  • Utter

• Nobody has been killed or seriously injured yet, but that's the reason we're doing the recall to make sure that doesn't happen, ... Any recall we do we would like to do it before anybody gets seriously injured, that's the goal.

  

  Hal Stratton
  • Goal
  • Killed
  • Recall

• I recall the months and years I spent as the intimate of someone whose affections have now faded like cherry blossoms scattering even before a wind blew.

  

  Kenko Yoshida
  • Intimate
  • Spent
  • Affections

• When I recall my teachers at school, I realise that half of them were abnormal. . . . We pupils of old Austria were brought up to respect old people and women. But on our professors we had no mercy; they were our natural enemies. The majority of them were somewhat mentally deranged, and quite a few ended their days as honest-to-God lunatics! . . . I was in particular bad odor with the teachers. I showed not the slightest aptitude for foreign languages - though I might have, had not the teacher been a congenital idiot. I could not bear the sight of him.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • School
  • Teachers
  • Recall

• A book is not merely a fossil or treasure from some phase of the past. It's right reading - not the words from without, but the thought from within - it is a spell by which you may recall the past, re-enter it when you will.

  

  Patrick Geddes
  • Book
  • Past
  • Spell

• I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Desire
  • Superstition
  • Missionaries

• It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Present
  • Vain
  • Recall

• What we recall as children is a version of what's happening around us.

  

  Zoe Perry
  • Children
  • Happening
  • Version

• In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Memory
  • Recall
  • Endeavors

• It is not correct, and if I said so, I was not correct — I cannot recall if I said it, but I did not say, or if I did, I did not mean to say it.

  

  Bertie Ahern
  • Correct
  • Recall

• You can understand why the original framers of judicial ethics thought it would be undignified and would call into question the legitimacy of the judicial decision-making process to have mudslinging by judges, but the way that we hobble people of enormous integrity from defending themselves is, I think, deeply problematic in states where you have an elected judiciary, or a judge is subject to recall.

  

  Deborah Rhode
  • Question
  • Understand
  • Process

• In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

  

  Paul Harvey
  • Always
  • Times
  • Recall

• Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Body
  • Tree
  • Breath