Memorable famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
-- A. A. Milne -
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.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
-- Abigail Adams -
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
The result of the revolution in Germany has been to establish a democracy in the best sense of the word. We are steering towards an order of things guaranteeing a process of a natural and reasonable selection in the domain of political leadership, thanks to which that leadership will be entrusted to the most competent, irrespective of their descent, name or fortune. The memorable words of the great Corsican that every soldier carries a Field Marshal's baton in his knapsack, will find its political complement in Germany.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
-- Agatha Christie -
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
-- Agatha Christie -
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
-- Agatha Christie -
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.
-- Agatha Christie -
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
-- Agatha Christie -
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
-- Aidan Chambers -
I think dates considered super corny and cheesy - whether it's going bowling or miniature golf or something where you can be competitive and just have fun with each other - those always make the most memorable dates!
-- Aimee Teegarden -
Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.
-- Alain Ducasse -
How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
-- Alan Greenspan -
I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.
-- Albert Einstein -
With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
-- Albert Einstein -
A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.
-- Albert Einstein -
Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
-- Albert Einstein -
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
-- Albert Einstein -
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
-- Albert Einstein -
One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.
-- Albert Einstein -
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
-- Albert Einstein -
Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
-- Albert Einstein -
The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks
-- Albert Einstein -
A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
-- Albert Einstein -
I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.
-- Albert Einstein -
The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.
-- Albert Einstein -
The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.
-- Albert Einstein -
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situations. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help is, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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.
-- Alexander Chee -
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
-- Alexander Lukashenko -
In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo.... It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor in that form. In a word, it was nothing but a zoo, you can't put it better
-- Alexander Lukashenko -
A thug only understands you when you speak his language
-- Alexander Lukashenko -
The genius writer was correct. In obtaining freedom, man suddenly understands that he has shouldered a heavy burden, because freedom involves responsibility. A person must make decisions himself and himself answer for them.
-- Alexander Lukashenko -
Look outside the window. Do you see the fence outside the palace? Do you see any guards? This is a country where everyone is safe.
-- Alexander Lukashenko -
Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there...when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay
-- Alexander Lukashenko -
I don't really understand what a dictator is, but on the other hand I sometimes, in a nice way, envy myself," he said. "I am the last and only dictator in Europe and indeed there are none anywhere else in the world.
-- Alexander Lukashenko -
We do not need an imported system for falsifying elections! We will create our own, one run by the state!
-- Alexander Lukashenko -
It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.
-- Alexander Smith -
I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.
-- Alexis Arguello -
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-- Alfred de Musset -
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.
-- Alia Bhatt -
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
-- Alice James -
He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth -
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
-- Alice Walker -
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.
-- Alistair Cooke -
Remember this although timing in life is everything, memorable moments in history don't just happen! Do something...stay positive!
-- Amy Dumas -
I may sound like a megalomaniac, but I feel like I'm equipped to become a great, memorable comedian, if I keep working my ***** 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.
-- Amy Schumer -
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-- Anais Nin -
Combinations with a queen sacrifice are among the most striking and memorable.
-- Anatoly Karpov -
Sarah Cornwell has a brilliant eye for the telling detail, and a wonderfully original way of embodying family history. I was captivated by her memorable characters and the perfectly paced revelations of their surprising relationships.
-- Andrea Barrett -
He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.
-- Andrew Marvell -
On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
-- Anita Loos -
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
-- Ann Richards -
A land not mine, still forever memorable, the waters of its ocean chill and fresh. Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk, and the air drunk, like wine, late sun lays bare the rosy limbs of the pinetrees. Sunset in the ethereal waves: I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.
-- Anne Bradstreet -
Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
-- Anne Frank -
Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
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.
-- Anne Rice -
I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
-- Anne Stevenson -
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.
-- Anne Sullivan Macy -
Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell -
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
-- Ariel Durant -
When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.
-- Arthur Miller -
Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.
-- Arthur Nersesian -
He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.
-- Ayn Rand -
For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.
-- Barack Obama -
The US and Australia have a lot in common. One of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon.
-- Barack Obama -
This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right now.
-- Barack Obama -
We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside.
-- Barack Obama -
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.
-- Barack Obama -
He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.
-- Barack Obama -
I believe that the best measure of whether a nation is going to be successful is whether they are tapping the talents of their women.
-- Barack Obama -
We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our ideals.
-- Barack Obama -
By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power.
-- Barack Obama -
My staff was very excited for Brisvegas. When I arrived, they advised I needed some XXXX.
-- Barack Obama -
Over the last several days, we have heard from members of Congress who want their voices to be heard. I absolutely agree.
-- Barack Obama -
I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me.
-- Barack Obama -
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
-- Barbara Bush -
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
-- Barbara Jordan -
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
-- Barry Levinson -
I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.
-- Beatrice Lillie -
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
-- Beatrix Potter -
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
-- Bella Abzug -
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.
-- Ben Elton -
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very memorable. I remember the street fights and how you were afraid to cross the bridge 'cause the Irish kid on the other side would beat your head in. I left Chicago a long time ago.
-- Benny Goodman -
With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
-- Bette Davis -
I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time.
-- Bette Midler -
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
-- Bette Midler -
I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
-- Bette Midler -
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
-- Betty Friedan -
The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.
-- Beverly Sills -
But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.
-- Bill Bryson -
Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.
-- Bill Bryson -
Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.
-- Bill Vaughan
