Best 653 quotes in «memorable quotes» category

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

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

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 don't sleep with happily married men.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

If you look back in history of the women who are most memorable and most stylish, they were never the followers of fashion. They were the ones who were unique in their style, breakers of the rules. They were authentic, genuine, original. They were not following the trends.

If you don't give up, you still have a chance. And when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.

If you don't show up at a party, people will assume you're fat.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

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

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

If you want to grow, find a good opportunity. Today, if you want to be a great company, think about what social problem you could solve.

I had an incredible experience living in New York, playing for the Yankees, to go through all of the things I did, including the no-hitter. It was a very memorable time.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

I hate thin people; 'Oh, does the tampon make me look fat?'

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don't need it. It all comes out onstage.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

I have had, in my time, memorable meals of scrambled eggs with fresh truffles, scrambled eggs with caviar and other glamorous things, but to me, there are few things as magnificent as scrambled eggs, pure and simple, perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned.

I have more influence now than when I had the power.

I have never found a better way to enhance the communications process than by reinforcing the points or concepts I wish to make with timely, memorable quotations.

I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone - the enchanting youth that forever walks on air.

I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.

I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.

I look at Obama, a young man, a good-looking person. That is my first impression, I feel sorry for him. He looks 100 percent like Lukashenko, when I came to power after the breakup of the Soviet Union

I just see a huge train wreck coming down. You and I have discussed this many times, and I don't see any results yet.