Famous Quotes & Sayings

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

Henry David Thoreau

It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.

Henry David Thoreau

Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.

Henry David Thoreau

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

Henry David Thoreau

They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult yet innocent expression of their open and serene eyes is very memorable. All intelligence seems reflected in them. They suggest not merely the purity of infancy, but a wisdom clarified by experience. Such an eye was not born when the bird was, but is coeval with the sky it reflects. The woods do not yield another such a gem.

Gypsy Rose Lee

God is love, but get it in writing.

Jerry Seinfeld

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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-