Ian Anthony Dale

I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird recollecting on my childhood, I think, because my brothers are all white. We all share the same father but different mothers. I guess I kind of associated white, but I was occasionally reminded in a really negative way that I wasn't.

American Actor

Anupam Kher

Harper Collins gave me a letter of intent saying that they want me to pen down my autobiography. When I was recollecting the incidents of my life for that, I selected only those incidents which were turning points in my life. I staged it instead of writing it.

Indian Actor

Joseph Addison

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

English Writer

Alexander Hamilton

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

American Politician

Giacomo Casanova

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

Italian Celebrity

Sudha Chandran

As an actor you should be able to store and recollect your experiences and work on them as an actor as and when required.

Vinoba Bhave

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

Indian Educator

William Wordsworth

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

English Poet

Deepti Naval

Writing my memoir and recalling and recollecting has been wonderfully enriching.

Indian Actress

Jack Levine

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

American Artist

Recollect often hints at a deeper, sometimes emotional act of remembering.

Emotional Reflection

Use 'recollect' when referring to an event or detail from the past.

Past Events

'Recollect' sometimes implies an effort to bring a memory back to mind.

Effortful Reminder

In science, 'recollect' relates to gathering data or specimens for analysis.

Scientific Research

Use 'recollect' to indicate a repetition of an action, especially collecting.

Repeat Action

'Recollect' suggests an action taken to correct an error or oversight.

Corrective Measure

 well as the fact that it's such a long living tree so we're coming to the end of one year and the beginning of another year and I think for a lot of us as we do this we start to recollect our thoughts and go oh my goodness gracious I can't believe I'm this old and what have I done with my life and that can