Memorable Quotes - Page 25

• With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

  Bette Davis

  Inspiration, Dying, Newspapers

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• If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Baseball, Kids

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• People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

  Isadora Duncan

  Life, Women, People

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• It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

  George Eliot

  Women, Opposites, Common

  George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.54, 谷月社

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• Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

  Nora Ephron

  Women, Food, Cooking

  Nora Ephron (1984). “Crazy Salad Plus Nine”

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• During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination.

  Joshua Foer

  Beautiful, Art, Book

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• Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.

  Joshua Foer

  Sex, Two, Interesting

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.76, Penguin

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• Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.

  David Frost

  Struggle, Heart, Simple

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.

  Larry Hagman

  Dallas, Moments, Episodes

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• It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

  Lillian Hellman

  Women, People, Pretending

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• Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

  Alice James

  Women, Doctors, Interviews

  1890 Diary entry, 27 Sep.

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• Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Stay hungry, stay foolish.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Positivity

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

  Jackie Kennedy

  Children, Women, Window Panes

  "The Last Word". Book by Carolyn Warner, 1992.

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• Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Sex, Women, Clothes

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• Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

  Jean Kerr

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Jean Kerr (1962). “The Snake Has all the Lines”

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• Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

  Jean Kerr

  Women, Learning, Hypocrite

  Jean Kerr (1973). “Finishing Touches”, p.9, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

  Jean Kerr

  Women, Health, Mind

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Women, Politics, Too Much

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• The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Night, Garlands

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• Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Creative, Foundation

  "A Redmoon Night to Remember" by Elysabeth Alfano, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2014.

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• I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event.

  Martina McBride

  Party, Creativity, Creating

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• The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

  Colleen McCullough

  Birthday, Appreciation, Women

  "Write to the Heart : Wit & Wisdom Of Women Writers". Book by Amber Coverdale Sumrall, 1992.

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