Memorable Quotes - Page 18

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.

Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.

I have not slept one wink.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

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?

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

Whenever I go past McDonalds I get very, very angry.

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

I cannot imagine what an influence a five-week trip to the Orient had on me. I mean, the culture, the absorption of the Japanese way of life, the Japanese way of thinking, the discipline. The entire thing was an extraordinary experience. So these were more than memorable things to me.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.

I was born in '58, so the riot in Detroit in 1967 was a memorable introduction to the issue of race and how race made a difference in American society. And then the next year, of course, Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. And the Detroit Tigers winning the World Series. All of that made a huge impression on my growing mind.

I never stop to plan. I take things step-by-step.

Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.

My daughter and I are very close, we speak every single day and I call her every day and I say the same thing, "pick up, I know you're there."