Best 653 quotes in «memorable quotes» category

Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.

Popular thought appeals to crowds, gatherings and tribes, who use it as a way to guide the herd. It is very evident in protests - sometimes the very people doing the protesting have NO IDEA what they are talking about.

Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry.

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear

Probably the most memorable even of my life is when I was born. It really made me who I am. If I die, I hope to go out the same way I came in, but I don't think my mother would be into that.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.

Read my lips-NO NEW TAXES!

Reality: What a concept!

Remember this although timing in life is everything, memorable moments in history don't just happen! Do something...stay positive!

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

Ronald Reagan was a traditionalist - who purposefully, effectively unleashed innovation and change in himself, in the nation, and in the world. He was a "great communicator" who achieved memorable intimacy with the people everywhere - yet he was often disengaged from his own family.

Scientists like ripping problems apart, collecting as much data as possible and then assembling the parts back together to make a decision.

Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else.

Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.

Some of the most memorable moments I've had is to have my family along - who are our greatest ambassadors for peace. Politics will never bring peace, but people will.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Strong reasons make strong actions.

Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.

SPIRITUAL WARRIORS is a terrific voyage. A memorable journey through the light and dark of our lives and ultimately to hope. I loved it.

Sons of the Dawn is a page-turner, and author Hank Nuwer is to be thanked for enriching our sense of the West with this memorable novel.

Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Successful presentations are understandable, memorable, and emotional

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

Surfing also teaches quality . I will wager that it is not the number of waves that makes a session memorable for any given surfer, but that one beautiful wave that he or she waited for … and rode all the way the way to shore.

Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own, unique in pattern and personality. Each mile on a river will take you further from home than a hundred miles on a road.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

Tatum plays so much piano it sounds impossible. The more I hear him, the more I want to give up the piano and drive a milk truck.

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do

That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

The art of moviemaking seems to get thrown away. The cinematography is gone, and the look of everything becomes of little importance. You lose the memorable images; everything looks like it's been shot at night with a security camera.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

The best part is not the biggest, it's the one that's most memorable.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.

That is NOT the arse of a £7million player!

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.