Best 653 quotes in «memorable quotes» category

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of constructive bipartisan relations with our region and the world, unmatched in Australian history.

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

Hitchcock used to believe that if there were three or four memorable scenes in a film that would be enough to drive it, but I don't know if that's true or not.

I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart.

I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then dont get crazy, see what happens.

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships.

I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart. My songs bring images to the listener's mind. The object is to transport my listeners to another place, some place sacred and spiritual that will make them glad they took the ride.

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs, but what I really hope is that I have done some good photo stories with memorable images that make a point, and, perhaps, even make a difference.

I am wealthy in my friends.

I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.

I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me.

I'd have to say that "Mr. Crowley" in my most memorable solo... I had spent hours trying to figure out a solo for the song ... Ozzy came in and said "it's crap - everything you're playing is crap" .. he told me to get in there and just play how I felt. He made me really nervous, so I just played anything. When I came back to listen to it, he said it was great.

I believe that the best measure of whether a nation is going to be successful is whether they are tapping the talents of their women.

I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures fixed forever in the all powerful and inscrutable stars. Ink black was the night beyond them, and they so like jewels that old poetry came back to me, the sound even of hymns sung only by men.

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

I didn't write my speech until the night before, and even then I refused to write it out like I would say it, preferring to keep cribbed notes I could come back to if necessary. I wanted this to feel like a conversation because it was what I wanted to say that mattered, not how it looked on paper.

I'd love to be a memorable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual, comic, tragic way. I'd like to leave the impression that Marilyn Monroe did, to be able to arouse so many different feelings in people.

I'd like to keep doing film and TV, and I definitely can appreciate a good theme song. If it's memorable, that's a great thing.

I'd like to think I'm a little more memorable or specific now. People laugh at me in a way they wouldn't laugh at another comedian, rather than being like, "Okay, who's the next joke-slinger? Give me some jokes so I may laugh and go about my day!

I don't sleep with happily married men.

I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.

I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

I fairly often have thought how lucky I was. I knew everybody because I was married to Bogie, and that 25-year difference was the most fantastic thing for me to have in my life.

I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the "dahling" thing got started?

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.

If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way: Will we ultimately produce something approaching a masterpiece, an acceptable but not particularly memorable work of art, or a creation that wouldn't even be purchased at a yard sale?

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

If we go to work at 8 a.m. and go home at 5 p.m., this is not a high-tech company and Alibaba will never be successful. If we have that kind of 8-5 spirit, then we should just go and do something else.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

If you're lucky enough to have captured maybe two hundred memorable pictures, you still haven't captured that much experience, have you?

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.