Memorable Quotes - Page 28

• Reality: What a concept!

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Life, Humor

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• If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

  E. O. Wilson

  Failure, Successful, Effort

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.16, Vintage

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• Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.

  Virginia Woolf

  Friendship, Women, Book

  "Selected Works of Virginia Woolf".

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• The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Time, Women

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit.

  Steve Yzerman

  Hard Times, Thinking, Lasting Impressions

  The IGN Interview, ca.ign.com. December 1, 2003.

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• All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Persons

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.18, Penguin

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• Beware the ides of March.

  William Shakespeare

  Autumn, March, Foreshadowing

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 15

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.479, Courier Corporation

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• His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Eulogy, World

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 5, sc. 5, l. 68

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Death, Veterans Day

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Television, Modern, Good Things

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.52, RosettaBooks

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• He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

  William Shakespeare

  Strength, Stronger, Affirmation

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• I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Travel, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Travel, Thinking

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Angel, Organization

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Aug 20, 2014

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• He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Ugly

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• There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Spiritual, Philosophy

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 166

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• The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situations. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help is, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Omission, Justice

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• In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.

  John Irving

  Thinking, Trying, World

  John Irving (1986). “The Hotel New Hampshire”

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• Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Names, Finals

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.

  J. D. Salinger

  Liars, Magazines, Opera

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives.

  Walker Percy

  People, Treasure, Facts

  The Moviegoer ch. 1 (1961)

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• One more drink and I'll be under the host.

  Mae West

  Sex, Women, Food

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• What was difficult was the travel, which, on arrival, is forgotten.

  Louise Glück

  Travel, Forgotten, Difficult

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• But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thoughtful, Men, Life Is

  Charles Spurgeon (1998). “The Power In Praising God”, p.61, Whitaker House

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