Memorable Quotes - Page 30

• Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Success, Education

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.44, Princeton University Press

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• He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.

  William Golding

  Life, Feet, Understanding

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.101, Penguin

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• I'm memorable, it's true.

  Cassandra Clare

  "City of Bones". Book by Cassandra Clare, March 27, 2007.

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• He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Looks, Mortality In Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 187

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• There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Imagination, Strokes

  "The Conduct of Life".

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• A land not mine, still forever memorable, the waters of its ocean chill and fresh. Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk, and the air drunk, like wine, late sun lays bare the rosy limbs of the pinetrees. Sunset in the ethereal waves: I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Ocean, Wine, Sunset

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• I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Dresses, Decided, Ifs

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Mind, Literature

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.40, Melville House

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• It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

  Albert Einstein

  Ideas, Individuality, Important

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.434, Princeton University Press

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• I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".

  William Shakespeare

  Gratitude, Strong, Hate

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. [390]

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• Did we kiss last night?" "Yes." "Well, it wasn't memorable because I have no recollection of it." He laughs. "I was kiddin'. We didn't kiss." He leans in. "When we kiss you'll remember it.Forever.

  Simone Elkeles

  Kissing, Night, Laughing

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• A hundred years from now? All new people.

  Anne Lamott

  Years, People, Hundred

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• A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Future, Men

  Albert Einstein, Anna Beck, Peter Havas (1987). “The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The early years, 1879-1902”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.

  Joshua Foer

  Speed, Seems

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.62, Penguin

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• The best part is not the biggest, it's the one that's most memorable.

  Rob Lowe

  Most Memorable

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• Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.

  Steven Morrissey

  Believe, Giving, Doing Nothing

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• So, if I'm no cheerleader of sports, why write a chapter about it? Sports do have some positive impact on society. They solve problems, such as how to get inner-city kids to spend $175 on shoes. They serve as a backdrop for some of our most memorable commercials. And they remain the one and only relevant application of math. Not only that, but we have sports to thank for most of the last century's advances in manliness. The system starts in school, where gym class separates the men from the boys. Then those men are taught to be winners, or at least, losers that hate themselves.

  Stephen Colbert

  Sports, Hate, Kids

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• Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Greatness

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• When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Justice, Politics

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.147, Cambridge University Press

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• When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.

  Steve Toltz

  Memories, Effort, Forget

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.13, Spiegel & Grau

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• Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres.

  Steven Morrissey

  Drug, Rehabilitation, Music Is

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• The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

  Albert Einstein

  College, Thinking, Training

  "Einstein: His Life and Times". Book by Philipp Frank (p. 185), 1947.

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• One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such men make this cosmos and its construction the pivot of their emotional life, in order to find the peace and security which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

  Walter Isaacson

  Art, Men, Emotional

  "Einstein: His Life and Universe". Book by Walter Isaacson, 2007.

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• One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.

  Albert Einstein

  Goal, Effort, Instinct

  "Can we make ourselves more intelligent?" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2014.

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• I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Single, Thankful, Gratitude

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.20, Bantam

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