Best 653 quotes in «memorable quotes» category

It is a very classic Western [Valley of Violence], and if you like Westerns, you'll like this movie, but there's a tone to it that's all its own that I think is unique and memorable.

It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.

It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of the thinker. The memorable experiment of Faraday with a disc rotating between two poles of a magnet, which has borne such magnificent fruit, has long passed into every-day experience; yet there are certain features about this embryo of the present dynamos and motors which even today appear to us striking, and are worthy of the most careful study.

It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection.

It is so often the odd, the unexpected, the apparently trifling, that stamps itself upon the memory for ever, while much more memorable things pass away like a breath of wind.

It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write phrases that people can't forget as soon as they read them.

It's great to be paid, but it's better to do something original that's going to be memorable.

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

It's not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.

It takes a village to raise a child.

It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

It was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I got to see firsthand the sacrifices that Israelis make in the name of security because of the dangerous state of affairs there. I will always be a strong supporter of Israel.

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

I used to love the way everyone talked about food as if it were one of the most important things in life. And, of course, it is. Without it we would die. Each of us eats about one thousand meals each year. It is my belief that we should try and make as many of these meals as we can truly memorable.

I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.

I've never managed anywhere, I've managed to stay alive for 63 and a half years baby.

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.

I was born in '58, so the riot in Detroit in 1967 was a memorable introduction to the issue of race and how race made a difference in American society. And then the next year, of course, Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. And the Detroit Tigers winning the World Series. All of that made a huge impression on my growing mind.

I was but three when he passed by, but I shall be grateful until the day I die.

I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'

I was not an attractive child. When I didn't use my Girl Scouts uniform as a uniform, I used it as a tent.

I was profoundly embarrassed by it [the White Australia Policy] and did all I could to change it.

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

I would fain die a dry death.

Japan is a wonderful country, a strange mixture of ancient mystique and cyberpunk saturation. It's a monolith of society's achievements, yet maintains a foothold in the past, creating an amazing backdrop for tourings and natives alive. Japan captures the imagination like no other. You never feel quite so far from home as you do in Japan, yet there are no other people on the planet that make you feel as comfortable.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.