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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult yet innocent expression of their open and serene eyes is very memorable. All intelligence seems reflected in them. They suggest not merely the purity of infancy, but a wisdom clarified by experience. Such an eye was not born when the bird was, but is coeval with the sky it reflects. The woods do not yield another such a gem.

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.

This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.

Though I am born into a film family, I hardly had much exposure to shooting during my growing years. My first film actually taught me about the breakdown of shots in a film. My aim is to do three memorable roles in the next five years; films I can be really proud of. And I want to work with the best.

Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the dinner Nana throws for her overflowing guests in Zola's Nana, the walk through Les Halles for breakfast in Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, and nearly every meal in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt.

Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.

Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenching, intimate, memorable experience.

To be in someone's favorite film is just - that's what you want. You want to be in great films that are memorable.

To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that's worth remembering.

Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.

Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room. In professional circles it's called networking. In organizations it's called team building. And in life it's called family, friends, and community. We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships.

Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up.

Very few people ever meet celebrities. All we really know is what we read about them and the most memorable lines are jokes. That's how we tend to define what we think of a public figure.

Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Wars are begun by frightened men.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other people to learn from these. We have difficulty remembering such abstractions, but we can more easily remember a good story. Stories give life to past experience. Stories make the events in memory memorable to others and to ourselves. This is one of the reasons why people like to tell stories.

We do not need an imported system for falsifying elections! We will create our own, one run by the state!

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

We have seen better days.

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

Well? I've had a great birthday so far. Are you going to make it the most memorable one of my life by telling me you love me back?" ~Isaiah Coulter

We'll all see through Mourinho. We'll find out he's just a Bengal lancer.

Well, I don't like to make outlandish statements. Not all the time. But Wimbledon would have beaten them 10-0.

Well, the people I've known I must say are extraordinary. When I think about some of them, I can't believe that I knew them all. And I think the reason I knew most of them at the beginning was because they were of Bogie's generation, 25 years my senior, not mine. But they were the most talented people of all.

We're opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17.

We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.

What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.