Memorable Quotes
1012 quotes by 506 authors
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
— Mary Ritter Beard
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Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
— Jane Addams
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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…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
— Candice Bergen
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
— Ingrid Bergman
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The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.
— Sara Blakely
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
— Erma Bombeck
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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
— Erma Bombeck
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Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my…
— Daniel Boone
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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…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
— Joyce Brothers
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If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
— Joyce Brothers
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Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
— Joyce Brothers
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
— Joyce Brothers
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Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
— Rita Mae Brown
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If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
— Rita Mae Brown
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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
— Rita Mae Brown
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
— Rita Mae Brown
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