Best 653 quotes in «memorable quotes» category

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

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

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

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 like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I just want my songs to be memorable, and for people to hear my songs in ten year's time and remember the great times they had while listening to 'em.

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.

I learned to do with little. And that's why today, I only spend the taxpayers' money like I spend my own, which is seldom. The people of Mississauga love that.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.

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'm an egotistical actress, the shows I like are the ones where I have lots to do. The one where I got shot I - it was particularly memorable for me for a lot of reasons.

I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn - small, tasty delights - and I like to gorge on them now and then.

I may sound like a megalomaniac, but I feel like I'm equipped to become a great, memorable comedian, if I keep working my ass off and staying at the pace I'm at, and I feel a responsibility to do that because of the women who have done it before me, and the ones who need to do it after me.

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

I'm not a spy, which is the real question

I'm not saying all seniors should be running a city or running a business, but I am saying seniors are good for a lot more than simply running a bath, baking cookies or babysitting grandchildren.

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

I mean come on. Do you know how easy it is to be famous these days? Do you have any idea? The web has made it plausible to have your very own platform to stand and spew nonsense from on an hourly basis. There's an old saying: when everyone is special, no one will be. These days, everybody thinks they're special, so no one really does anything to be special anymore.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.