Memorable Quotes - Page 25

This is the short and the long of it.

I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

Courage mounteth with occasion.

He that dies pays all debts.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!

Why wait to be memorable?

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI... They realized they couldn't beat us...

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

When it comes to Project Runway, for me the most memorable look ever presented goes back to season one, episode one, when Austin Scarlett created a ravishing cocktail dress out of cornhusks. It was really amazing.

Toby [Huss] gets shot, or that part when [John] Travolta says this, or the part where Ethan [Hawke] says that cool thing - those details are the things that are interesting to me. So just acknowledging we don't have a lot of money [for Valley of Violence], so we're going to make a Western that's kind of contained, but we're going to make it super charismatic and we're going to make it memorable for what it is as opposed to what we couldn't afford.

Well, I am an extremely beautiful person.

I'd rather produce art than become art.

Unfortunately, I am not homosexual... In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many.

Surfing also teaches quality . I will wager that it is not the number of waves that makes a session memorable for any given surfer, but that one beautiful wave that he or she waited for … and rode all the way the way to shore.

Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public. Once you step on stage you're licensed to do that. It's an understood relationship. You walk on stage - it's your job.

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.