Best 653 quotes in «memorable quotes» category

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.

I was born in '58, so the riot in Detroit in 1967 was a memorable introduction to the issue of race and how race made a difference in American society. And then the next year, of course, Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. And the Detroit Tigers winning the World Series. All of that made a huge impression on my growing mind.

I was but three when he passed by, but I shall be grateful until the day I die.

I was profoundly embarrassed by it [the White Australia Policy] and did all I could to change it.

I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Japan is a wonderful country, a strange mixture of ancient mystique and cyberpunk saturation. It's a monolith of society's achievements, yet maintains a foothold in the past, creating an amazing backdrop for tourings and natives alive. Japan captures the imagination like no other. You never feel quite so far from home as you do in Japan, yet there are no other people on the planet that make you feel as comfortable.

I would fain die a dry death.

I was not an attractive child. When I didn't use my Girl Scouts uniform as a uniform, I used it as a tent.

Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up.

Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming.

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

Life is very tough. If you don't laugh, it's tough.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Losing Bogey was horrible, obviously. Because he was young. And because he gave me my life. I wouldn't have had a - I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't met him. I would have had a completely different kind of life. He changed me, he gave me everything. And he was an extraordinary man.

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything.

Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!

Maids must be wives, and mothers, to fulfil Th' entire and holiest end of woman's being.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

Make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You’re a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You’re barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they’re a-coming for ya. It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.

May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.

Memorable customer service can only take place in a human-to-human situation.

Michel Platini has no bottle. He is not a great player.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.

Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.'

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was it about? Was it her smile? Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists? What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart? That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night.

Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals to them beyond just the notes. For a record to be memorable and great, it has to have something of this quality. Exactly what that is, I don't know, but I think it has something to do with an atmosphere, an environment that is appealing and attractive. And the people that inhabit this environment have... almost a message for the rest of the world.

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth year from its birth, the independence of the United States. A remarkable epoch in the annals of the human race, destined in future history to form the brightest or the blackest page, according to the use or the abuse of those political institutions by which they shall, in time to come, be shaped by the human mind.

My father was often angry when I was most like him.