Memorable Quotes - Page 15

He is lofty, and I am eminent.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most clearly recalled. One man remembers the combustible properties of a substance, which to another is memorable for its polarising property; to one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

When you're a kid, nine times out of 10, everthing is pure depending on how you grow up. Everything is new as a kid, so it's all amazing and wonderful. But as we get older, things start to lose their luster or possibly their relevance. Things don't mean as much as they did then. I know the feeling.

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Reality: What a concept!

For me, being memorable is more important than winning.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

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.

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

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.

You just witnessed something I've never seen in my entire life. They just called that team (Tennessee) the winner. They said whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, (whistles) come back here. Then they called us the winner. I'm a tell you right now as an experience, dammit, I'm going to enjoy that one as much as I hate to admit it.

Well, the people I've known I must say are extraordinary. When I think about some of them, I can't believe that I knew them all. And I think the reason I knew most of them at the beginning was because they were of Bogie's generation, 25 years my senior, not mine. But they were the most talented people of all.

You are not in business to be popular.