Memorable Quotes - Page 4

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

America is the most inventive country in the world. Why? Because everybody has access to information. In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them.

I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

I am not a has-been. I am a will-be.

My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: The turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.

A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

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

From depression to ceiling fans, I've been through it all. I've taken almost every step that life has to offer and invariably I've found several different endings to my Choose Your Own Adventure stories. I've lived, loved, sacrificed and scraped for this existence, this paltry little city state I call my time so far. And by God, I wouldn't change a single frame of this movie.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.