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There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.

The result of the revolution in Germany has been to establish a democracy in the best sense of the word.  We are steering towards an order of things guaranteeing a process of a natural and reasonable selection in the domain of political leadership, thanks to which that leadership will be entrusted to the most competent, irrespective of their descent, name or fortune.  The memorable words of the great Corsican that every soldier carries a Field Marshal's baton in his knapsack, will find its political complement in Germany.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

There was a contact between a football player and a cheerleader, male I might add. That male cheerleader clipped me from the side as I was running full speed, or slower than full speed, but generally, in the upper quadrant of speed. And I hit the ground pretty good.

There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.

The road ahead may be difficult for all Australians, but we need not be divided on partisan lines.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion.

The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situations. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help is, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult yet innocent expression of their open and serene eyes is very memorable. All intelligence seems reflected in them. They suggest not merely the purity of infancy, but a wisdom clarified by experience. Such an eye was not born when the bird was, but is coeval with the sky it reflects. The woods do not yield another such a gem.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.

Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.

This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.

Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Though I am born into a film family, I hardly had much exposure to shooting during my growing years. My first film actually taught me about the breakdown of shots in a film. My aim is to do three memorable roles in the next five years; films I can be really proud of. And I want to work with the best.

Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the dinner Nana throws for her overflowing guests in Zola's Nana, the walk through Les Halles for breakfast in Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, and nearly every meal in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt.

To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenching, intimate, memorable experience.

To be in someone's favorite film is just - that's what you want. You want to be in great films that are memorable.

To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that's worth remembering.

Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room. In professional circles it's called networking. In organizations it's called team building. And in life it's called family, friends, and community. We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships.

Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.

Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.