Memorable Quotes
1012 Memorable quotes by 485 unique authors
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I thought I told you to wait in the car.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
— Colleen Barrett
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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…
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
— Ruth Benedict
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Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.
— Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.
— Eloisa James
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Forget the past and live the present hour.
— Sarah Knowles Bolton
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Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change…
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
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Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?
— Peg Bracken
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Women power is a formidable force.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.
— Pearl S. Buck
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Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
— Carol Burnett
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I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
— Fanny Burney
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If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.
— Liz Carpenter
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Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.
— Julia Child
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He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.
— Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main…
— Joan Ganz Cooney
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All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.
— Judith Crist
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To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.
— Diane de Poitiers
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The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.
— Diane de Poitiers
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I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.
— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
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I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.
— Marlene Dietrich
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Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be.
— Mary Mapes Dodge
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I don't sleep with happily married men.
— Britt Ekland
Who Wrote These Memorable Quotes
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