Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Henry David Thoreau

It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.

Henry David Thoreau

Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.

Henry David Thoreau

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

Henry David Thoreau

Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.

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.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

No question is ever settled until it is settled right.

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

Eudora Welty

Never think you've seen the last of anything.

Erma Bombeck

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

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.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Women power is a formidable force.

Holt McCallany

As an actor, you very rarely have the experience of picking up a script and getting a few pages into it and realizing that what you're holding in your hands is not just a role on a TV show, but it's one of those special parts that comes along, once or twice in a career. If you're lucky, you get an opportunity to do something really memorable and to be part of one of those rare shows that passes into that special category.

Iggy Azalea

I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.

Hannah Arendt

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Fanny Burney

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

Jerry Seinfeld

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Chipper Jones

It wouldn't have been a real memorable one,

Nikola Tesla

It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of the thinker. The memorable experiment of Faraday with a disc rotating between two poles of a magnet, which has borne such magnificent fruit, has long passed into every-day experience; yet there are certain features about this embryo of the present dynamos and motors which even today appear to us striking, and are worthy of the most careful study.

Myrtle Reed

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

Sebastian Faulks

In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.

Madonna Ciccone

I'd love to be a memorable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual, comic, tragic way. I'd like to leave the impression that Marilyn Monroe did, to be able to arouse so many different feelings in people.

Mary Augusta Ward

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

Michael Jordan

My most memorable dunk, that I think about very, very often, is the Patrick Ewing dunk.

Miranda Kerr

I celebrated my 18th birthday in Japan, which was quite memorable; I was quite fascinated by the different traditions and the culture; it was so completely different to Australian culture.

Mignon McLaughlin

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

Patricia Neal

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

David Ogilvy

If you can’t be brilliant, at least be memorable