Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Fanny Burney

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

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.

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.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

No question is ever settled until it is settled right.

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.

Germaine Greer

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

Narciso Rodriguez

No scent is more sensual or more memorable to me than musk.

Og Mandino

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles

Oscar de la Renta

I don't really know how to do casual clothes

Oscar de la Renta

Every season I am inspired by women.

Emile Hirsch

I remember when I saw 'The Matrix' when I was 13, I saw it in the theaters, and I was so blown away by it. It was one of the most memorable experiences I definitely ever had in the theater.

Kevin Spacey

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

Henry David Thoreau

I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

John Adams

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, of the independence of the United States: a memorable 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.

James R. Clapper

I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner.

Larry Hagman

We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.

James Beard

I have had, in my time, memorable meals of scrambled eggs with fresh truffles, scrambled eggs with caviar and other glamorous things, but to me, there are few things as magnificent as scrambled eggs, pure and simple, perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned.

John Muir

Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.

Jon Gries

It's great to be paid, but it's better to do something original that's going to be memorable.