Best 653 quotes in «memorable quotes» category

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.

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.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

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

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

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

Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!

Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up.

Life is very tough. If you don't laugh, it's tough.

Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming.

Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Losing Bogey was horrible, obviously. Because he was young. And because he gave me my life. I wouldn't have had a - I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't met him. I would have had a completely different kind of life. He changed me, he gave me everything. And he was an extraordinary man.

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

Maids must be wives, and mothers, to fulfil Th' entire and holiest end of woman's being.

Make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You’re a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You’re barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they’re a-coming for ya. It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

Memorable customer service can only take place in a human-to-human situation.

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.

Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising, memorable, and light.

More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.

Michel Platini has no bottle. He is not a great player.

Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals to them beyond just the notes. For a record to be memorable and great, it has to have something of this quality. Exactly what that is, I don't know, but I think it has something to do with an atmosphere, an environment that is appealing and attractive. And the people that inhabit this environment have... almost a message for the rest of the world.

Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.'

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was it about? Was it her smile? Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists? What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart? That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night.

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

Music is such an important element in creating the drama that a runway show needs in order to be memorable and to make the clothes come to life.

My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth year from its birth, the independence of the United States. A remarkable epoch in the annals of the human race, destined in future history to form the brightest or the blackest page, according to the use or the abuse of those political institutions by which they shall, in time to come, be shaped by the human mind.

My most memorable dunk, that I think about very, very often, is the Patrick Ewing dunk.

My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: The turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.

My most memorable science fiction experience was Star Wars and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.

My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden age?' Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. I could show you some, but I'd have to climb ladders, and I can't climb

"My obit is going to be full of Bogart, I'm sure," she says, adding, "I'll never know if that's true. If that's the way it is, that's the way it is.

My point to you is, there is no such thing as a flop that takes the field for our football team. Just so ya know, I'm proud of those men. How ****ing easy would it have been to say it's their night. Excuse my language. Spectacular group of men. You got to find them, you throw your arms around them and give them a big kiss on the mouth, if you're a girl.