Memorable Quotes - Page 18

• This is the short and the long of it.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Windsor, Merry

  "The Merry Wives of Windsor". Book by William Shakespeare, 1602.

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• He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Hats

  1598 Beatrice, of Benedick. Much AdoAbout Nothing, act1, sc.1, l.71-3.

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• Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Men, Lady Macbeth

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• I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Soul, Desire

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• I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong Women, Feminist Art, Empowering

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

  Mary McCarthy

  Forgiveness, Children, Women

  Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Women, Important, One Man

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

  Bette Midler

  Women, Tacky, Popularity

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• Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.

  Dorothy Parker

  Mary, Dear

  Quoted in AlexanderWoollcott, While Rome Burns (1934)

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• Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

  Myrtle Reed

  Thinking, Clothes, People

  Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.69, Library of Alexandria

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• If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.

  Jacqueline Roque

  Husband, Painting, Mets

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• Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth.

  Christina Rossetti

  Love Is, Rose, Joy

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.303, Delphi Classics

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• We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

  Dora Russell

  Children, Women, Knowing

  Hypatia ch. 4 (1925)

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• Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

  May Sarton

  Women, Wife, Lasts

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

  Muriel Spark

  Inspirational, Women, Blessing

  Muriel Spark (2012). “Doctors of Philosophy: A Play”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Nice, Stories, Cry

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• Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

  Josephine Tey

  Education, Women, Offensive

  "The Franchise Affair".

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• This guy says, "I'm perfect for you, 'cause I'm a cross between a macho man and a sensitive man." I said, "Oh, a gay trucker?"

  Judy Tenuta

  Gay, Men, Sensitive Man

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• Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Creeds

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.

  Alexis Arguello

  Motivation, Dedication, Boxing

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• Sons of the Dawn is a page-turner, and author Hank Nuwer is to be thanked for enriching our sense of the West with this memorable novel.

  Gerald Haslam

  Son, Dawn, Pages

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• I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Fun, Character, Thinking

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• Not only is a good name catchy and memorable, it should help people understand what your business does. If your name reflects your products or services you'll have a much better chance of being found [via Google search], so it's important to choose wisely.

  Lori Greiner

  Names, People, Google

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• I'd have to say that "Mr. Crowley" in my most memorable solo... I had spent hours trying to figure out a solo for the song ... Ozzy came in and said "it's crap - everything you're playing is crap" .. he told me to get in there and just play how I felt. He made me really nervous, so I just played anything. When I came back to listen to it, he said it was great.

  Randy Rhoads

  Music, Song, Play

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• 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.

  Robert Pinsky

  Heart, Emotional, Giving

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