Memorable Quotes - Page 8

When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how experienced you are or how many degrees you have or who you know. A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors.

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say it—in a way, to hum it to yourself. You desire, if only in the sound studio of your imagination, to repeat the physical experience of that sentence. That craving, emotional and intellectual but beginning in the body with a certain gesture of sound, is near the heart of poetry.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

It would be better if you began to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.

As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.

You have to do three things really well to make a successful film. You have to tell a compelling story that has a story that is unpredictable, that keeps people on the edge of their seat where they can't wait to see what happens next. You then populate that story with really memorable and appealing characters. And then, you put that story and those characters in a believable world, not realistic but believable for the story that you're telling.

My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

If you want to grow, find a good opportunity. Today, if you want to be a great company, think about what social problem you could solve.

Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form the memorable moments in movies and plays.

I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.

A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

I want to focus on my salad.

Beauty is not generic. Quite often, the thing that makes you memorable is the thing that makes you different.

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up.