Best 653 quotes in «memorable quotes» category

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

I still have night terrors about things happening to my son. The worst things cross your mind when you care so much. I keep them at bay as best I can, and it's a struggle for me not to just do everything for him.

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

It doesn't matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don't succeed, someone will succeed.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

I think at times the very strong feelings I have about my country coincide with my musical ability, and I'm able to actually turn it into music, a song or even hopefully a memorable song, sometimes. You may find it surprising, but I'm a very intense, proud American. I love being an American.

I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

I think that you should just be yourself and make sure you pick a really, really good song, and make sure you're memorable.

I think we have an obligation to put on a fun show and put on a concert that's memorable, that's energetic and that spreads joy and open-mindedness. If being open-minded and joyful is against your political beliefs, then you know, f**k you.

I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.

I think the reason the stories are briskly paced, when they are, is that I like story. I like stories where things happen and there are surprises and reversals, in addition to vivid characters and a memorable voice. So those are the kinds of stories I try to write. And it turns out that's pretty much the only kind of writing that works for TV. It's a medium that just devours story, demands surprises and reversals. So my sensibility is suited to TV storytelling, at least as we think of it today.

I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

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 familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 a village to raise a child.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.

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