Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Being memorable equals getting picked.

Jeffrey Rosen

[Louis] Brandeis improves the prose. He simplifies it and perfects the balance of the sentence so it becomes even more memorable and aphoristic.

Hildegard Knef

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Hillary Clinton

What difference, at this point, does it make?

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

Eudora Welty

Never think you've seen the last of anything.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Women power is a formidable force.

Holt McCallany

As an actor, you very rarely have the experience of picking up a script and getting a few pages into it and realizing that what you're holding in your hands is not just a role on a TV show, but it's one of those special parts that comes along, once or twice in a career. If you're lucky, you get an opportunity to do something really memorable and to be part of one of those rare shows that passes into that special category.

Iggy Azalea

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

Hannah Arendt

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Hannah Arendt

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Gough Whitlam

Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of constructive bipartisan relations with our region and the world, unmatched in Australian history.

Gough Whitlam

Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer - a poorer economy, a poorer civilization, because of this human and national waste.

Gough Whitlam

Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions to regular soldiers. We will abolish conscription forthwith. By abolishing it, Australia will achieve a better army, a better-paid army - and a better, united society.

Gough Whitlam

He is lofty, and I am eminent.

Gough Whitlam

Maintain your rage and enthusiasm for the campaign for the election now to be held and until polling day.

Gough Whitlam

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

Gemma Arterton

I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.

Christina Rossetti

Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth.

Christina Rossetti

My heart is like a singing bird.

Chris Howard

Now is that last time you'll see today, so make it memorable.

Fanny Burney

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

Erma Bombeck

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

Cate Blanchett

The effect on the geo-cultural political map of Australia made by Gough Whitlam is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in, you get a wealth of Gough's legacy.

Cassandra Clare

I'm memorable, its true." -Magnus, pg.229-

Cassandra Clare

Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.

Muriel Spark

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

George Henry Lewes

Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most clearly recalled. One man remembers the combustible properties of a substance, which to another is memorable for its polarising property; to one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

Kate Chopin

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

Ken Kesey

But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all

Kirstie Alley

You are not in business to be popular.

Gloria Swanson

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Grace Kelly

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.