Best 653 quotes in «memorable quotes» category

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

When you're a dreamer, heart break and failure come with the territory, but I can tell you it's worth it, because it's a way of living that is both moving and memorable.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

You just witnessed something I've never seen in my entire life. They just called that team (Tennessee) the winner. They said whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, (whistles) come back here. Then they called us the winner. I'm a tell you right now as an experience, dammit, I'm going to enjoy that one as much as I hate to admit it.

You'll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.

Why wait to be memorable?

Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Women power is a formidable force.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.

Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.

You are not in business to be popular.

You can't handle the truth!

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

You ever tasted a smell? It's a very strange feeling. I've done it quite a few times and it still freaks me out.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.

A contemptible person, but ready to face suffering!

A memorable heart is the easiest way to immortality.

A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion.

Angel you may have lucked out this time, but just remember I’m going to be on your ass until I get my revenge. I promise you this will not be the last time you will see me! You’re a dead man Medina, maybe not now but soon! - Orlando to Angel under the crumbling furnace in the hotel.

Don't get me wrong, it's a good thing to be remembered. But everyday their memories get fewer, less intense. Certain aspects of the memory will become dishevelled, twisted into a form unrecognisable. Until finally the person still at the centre of your world moves on and all you can do is watch

Chubi, rhymes with booby, which you don't have, or doodie, which your face looks like," she said smugly, leaning back and making her chair squeak.

Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved! Receive the laurel, given, though late, on merit; to whom and wherever deserved. Parochial punks, trimmers, nice people, joiners true-blue, Get the hell out of the way of the laurel. It is deathless And it isn't for you.

Estoy convencido de que nunca nos sucede nada que no hayamos previsto, nada para lo que no estemos preparados. Nos han tocado malos tiempos, como a todos los hombres, y hay que aprender a vivir sin ilusiones

Each moment has the potential to be special and memorable.

I don't see gender(unless it involves sex), race, or nationality; just assholes and non assholes.

I also read that spending time with a pedophile can be like a drug high. There was this girl who said it’s as if the pedophile lives in a fantastic kind of reality, and that fantasticness infects everything. Kind of like they’re children themselves, only full of the knowledge that children don’t have. Their imaginations are stronger than kids’ and they can build realities that small kids would never be able to dream up. They can make the child’s world… ecstatic somehow. And when it’s over, for people who’ve been through this, it’s like coming off of heroin and, for years, they can’t stop chasing the ghost of how it felt. One girl said that it’s like the earth is scorched and the grass won’t grow back. And the ground looks black and barren but inside it’s still burning.

Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.

It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember.

It's not a value judgment. I'm not saying you're good or generous or kind or whatever. I'm just saying you're memorable.

I stand still inhaling the beauty of our memories, Flashbacks of our togetherness burn my flesh and I breathe love through every single skin pore. (Excerpted from The room, chapter Pain)

Its really hard to recall the day you became friends with special people.