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• There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed are only partly ours.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Philosophy, Expression

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.207, Courier Corporation

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• The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

  Kevin Spacey

  Home, Theatre, Actors

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• The result of the revolution in Germany has been to establish a democracy in the best sense of the word.  We are steering towards an order of things guaranteeing a process of a natural and reasonable selection in the domain of political leadership, thanks to which that leadership will be entrusted to the most competent, irrespective of their descent, name or fortune.  The memorable words of the great Corsican that every soldier carries a Field Marshal's baton in his knapsack, will find its political complement in Germany.

  Adolf Hitler

  Order, Names, Political

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• If you can’t be brilliant, at least be memorable

  David Ogilvy

  Brilliant, Ifs

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• The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all. No wonder we trusted him, he never lied to us. ... His stubbornness, even defiance, in the face of facts ('stupid things,' he once called them in a memorable slip) was nothing short of splendid. ... This is the man who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency.

  Molly Ivins

  Stupid, Ignorance, Men

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.104, Vintage

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• All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Being Me, Unforgettable

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.126, Macmillan

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• A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like the glue to everything.

  Nikki Sixx

  Song, Glue, Doe

  Source: forbassplayersonly.com

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• When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great characters and memorable scenes. So war is a natural topic.

  Steven Pressfield

  Drama, War, Character

  Interview with Will Duquette, www.patheos.com. May 21, 2014.

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• There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.

  Martha Ostenso

  Real, Winter, Prairie

  Martha Ostenso (1927). “The Mad Carews”, New York : Dodd, Mead

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• It is so often the odd, the unexpected, the apparently trifling, that stamps itself upon the memory for ever, while much more memorable things pass away like a breath of wind.

  Esther Meynell

  Memories, Wind, Passing Away

  Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

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• At the heart of good education are those gifted, hardworking, and memorable teachers whose inspiration kindles fires that never quite go out, whose remembered encouragement is sometimes the only hard ground we stand upon, and whose very selves are the stuff of the best lessons they ever teach us. Most of us, no matter how long ago it's been, can name our kindergarten teacher. Our first music teacher. Our junior high algebra teacher. Good teachers never die.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Education, Teacher, Encouragement

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• In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Long, Meals, France

  "Dr John Briffa assesses Sebastian Faulks' shopping basket". Interview with John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

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• I may sound like a megalomaniac, but I feel like I'm equipped to become a great, memorable comedian, if I keep working my ass off and staying at the pace I'm at, and I feel a responsibility to do that because of the women who have done it before me, and the ones who need to do it after me.

  Amy Schumer

  Responsibility, Comedian, Sound

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. October 3, 2012.

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• One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

  Suzanne Collins

  Book, Reader, Reluctant

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• Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to love her entire cast of distinct and memorable characters. In The Cure for Death by Lightning she fashions an irresistible song out of the joys and dangers of growing up, the mysteries and wonders of life on a farm, the thrilling terror of trying to outrun the awful unseen force that pursues a growing girl. This novel opens a door to a shining, surprising world.

  Jack Hodgins

  Girl, Fashion, Song

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• Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Weather, Meals, Enough

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• I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then dont get crazy, see what happens.

  Garry Marshall

  Fun, Crazy, Trying

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• Monkey Beach is a moody, powerful novel full of memorable characters. Reading it was like entering a pool of emerald water to discover a haunted world shivering with loss and love, regret and sorrow, where the spirit world is as real as the human. I was sucked into it with the very first sentence and when I left, it was with a feeling of immense reluctance.

  Anita Rau Badami

  Beach, Powerful, Regret

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• A psychologically engrossing novel about the homes we make-in our houses, in our neighborhoods, and in the hearts of our loved ones. Laken takes on that great unspoken American subject-class-and does so with frankness, acuity and surpassing feeling. DREAM HOUSE is a memorable debut novel from a fully mature talent.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Dream, Home, Heart

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• Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry.

  Clive James

  Poetry, Sound, Texture

  Clive James (2014). “Poetry Notebook: 2006–2014”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• I think at times the very strong feelings I have about my country coincide with my musical ability, and I'm able to actually turn it into music, a song or even hopefully a memorable song, sometimes. You may find it surprising, but I'm a very intense, proud American. I love being an American.

  John Fogerty

  Country, Song, Strong

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

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• The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, History, Researchers

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.108, Xist Publishing

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• What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love has inspired? It is wonderful that they were ever uttered. They are few and rare indeed, but, like a strain of music, they are incessantly repeated and modulated by the memory. All other words crumble off with the stucco which overlies the heart. We should not dare to repeat these now aloud. We are not competent to hear them at all times.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Memories, Heart, May

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.637, Simon and Schuster

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• I had an incredible experience living in New York, playing for the Yankees, to go through all of the things I did, including the no-hitter. It was a very memorable time.

  Jim Abbott

  New York, Yankees, Incredibles

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• The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim. It is seemingly instantaneous at last.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Winter, Dark

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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