Memorable Quotations

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

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

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

The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.

What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.

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.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

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

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.

I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.

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

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.

I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then dont get crazy, see what happens.

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

If you look back in history of the women who are most memorable and most stylish, they were never the followers of fashion. They were the ones who were unique in their style, breakers of the rules. They were authentic, genuine, original. They were not following the trends.

Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.

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.

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

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.

My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.

Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

With 'Dope Walk,' I wanted to bring back kids dancing and having fun again. That's how it used to be in Harlem. I remember everybody Harlem-shaking and 'Chicken Noodle Soup'-ing. Those were some of the most fun and memorable times in my life.

It's seldom that you find great moments in television. Usually you remember - in 'Breaking Bad' or any of these other great shows - you remember situations or characters. Not moments. But I have to say, I can make the same argument for mainstream movies, which have bad narratives and also no memorable moments.

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

God is love, but get it in writing.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

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

I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

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!

No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil.

The best gift for an actor is the love of the fans. Many make sweet cards, write letters and even come and meet me wherever I am in India. The love and blessings of your elders is also always cherished, but the extra mile that the fans go to is memorable.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.

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

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

The most popular labor saving device is still money.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

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.

The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves - and the most memorable and beautiful outfits are simply those that, in some rare moment of joy, we found the courage to share with the world.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Never think you've seen the last of anything.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

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.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.