Memorable Quotes
Memorable Quote of the day
When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.
The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
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.
There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
My love life is like a piece of Swiss cheese; most of it's missing, and what's there stinks.
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
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.
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.
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!
The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
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.
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.
There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment.
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.
I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.
Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.'
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.