Memorable Quotes

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.

God if the press ever quoted anyone correctly it would be brilliant.

Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

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

I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it.

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because the water is cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that?

The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.

What a deformed thief this fashion is.

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

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.

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

Obviously, the most memorable has a lot to do with the time spent on the matter, and the Westerfield and Peterson cases are up at the top of the list.

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.

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection.

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.

Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

I don't sleep with happily married men.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

Successful presentations are understandable, memorable, and emotional

Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.

I've never managed anywhere, I've managed to stay alive for 63 and a half years baby.

He's one of the biggest whingers in world football... he's a bloody eejit.

Michel Platini has no bottle. He is not a great player.

Well, I don't like to make outlandish statements. Not all the time. But Wimbledon would have beaten them 10-0.

We'll all see through Mourinho. We'll find out he's just a Bengal lancer.

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him.

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

You know why I feel older? I went to buy sexy underwear and they automatically gift wrapped it.

You know you're getting old when you buy a sexy sheer nightgown and don't know anyone who can see through it.

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable.

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.