Memorable Quotes - page 6

Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up. (Garrison Keillor)
Memorable occasions should be brief, and so should be the expressions of appreciation. View quote
Simon Kuznets
When you "get an idea," or "solve a problem," or have a "memorable experience," you create what we shall call a K-line. View quote
Marvin Minsky
The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it. View quote
Danica Patrick
Can any colored man, or any white man friendly to the freedom of all men, ever forget the night which followed the first day of January 1863, when the world was to see if Abraham Lincoln would prove to be as good as his word? I shall never forget that memorable night. View quote
Frederick Douglass
One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read. View quote
Suzanne Collins
Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society. View quote
Yo-Yo Ma
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite. View quote
Carol Ann Duffy
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. View quote
Og Mandino
The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances. View quote
Kevin Spacey
Brijmohan Maharaj's Kamdeva matched grace with grace. To the loving he added fear, and a secret knowledge of his fate. Together they devised a poignancy that was memorable and must surely be rare in dance. (Birju Maharaj)
I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering. View quote
Iggy Azalea
But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Arabian Empire, is a profound modification in the ideas of the peoples .... The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought .... The present epoch is one of these critical moments in which the thought of mankind is undergoing a process of transformation. View quote
Gustave Le Bon
...the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself. View quote
John Irving
Alfred E. van Vogt, since the appearance of his first two stories - "Black Destroyer" and "Discord in Scarlet" (Astounding Science Fiction, July and December 1939) the most memorable debut in the long history of the genre - has been a giant. View quote
Harlan Ellison
It is no of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word. View quote
Alexander Smith
When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great characters and memorable scenes. So war is a natural topic. View quote
Steven Pressfield
A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees. View quote
Dick Cavett
The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
A century ago it was perfectly well known that whoever had one audience of a Master in Chancery was made to pay for three, but no man heeded the enormity until it suggested to a young lawyer that it might be well to question and examine with rigorous suspicion every part of a system in which such things were done. The day on which that gleam lighted up the clear hard mind of Jeremy Bentham is memorable in the political calendar beyond the entire administration of many statesmen. (John W. Campbell)
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A statute of 1344 shows some weakness; but the statute of 1391 is memorable, not merely as being the Mortmain Code of three centuries, but as extending the rule of mortmain to all bodies, religious and secular alike, having perpetual succession. For this extension marks the definite recognition by English Law of the corporation, or, as it is sometimes called, the 'fictitious person' - the legal personality which is not restricted to the limits of individual life. The gradual evolution of this institution is one of the most fascinating chapters in legal history... View quote
Edward Jenks
The Islanders have had two penalty shots in Stanley Cup playoff history, here is number 3. Bates against Joseph...... Bates in on goal.... he shoots, He scores! Consider that for a franchise loaded with memorable postseason moments, you have just witnessed one of the most memorable. A penalty shot goal by Shawn Bates to give the Islanders a 4–3 lead with 2 minutes and 30 seconds left in regulation time. View quote
Howie Rose
You hope you come up with the odd memorable one. That's the best any of us could hope for. View quote
Ian Darke