Memorable Quotes - Page 35

• America is the most inventive country in the world. Why? Because everybody has access to information. In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them.

  Tom Clancy

  Country, America, World

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love, Summer, Beach

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

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• Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Men, Giving

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• One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate. A stable compound, looking like common salt, but much heavier. This was the magic of chemistry, to see xenon trapped into a crystal.

  Freeman Dyson

  Xenon, Science, Magic

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• Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Joy, Doe

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.57, Princeton University Press

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• In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two poles of a Volta pile. On his table was a magnetized needle on its pivot, and he suddenly saw (by chance you will say, but chance only favours the mind which is prepared) the needle move and take up a position quite different from the one assigned to it by terrestrial magnetism. A wire carrying an electric current deviates a magnetized needle from its position. That, gentlemen, was the birth of the modern telegraph.

  Louis Pasteur

  Moving, Science, Two

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• What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

  Liz Carpenter

  Love, Women, Writing

  Liz Carpenter (1993). “Getting Better All the Time”, Texas A & M University Press

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• What a deformed thief this fashion is.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Thieves

  1598 Borachio to Conrad. Much Ado About Nothing, act 3, sc.3, l.126-9.

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• Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

  Robin Williams

  Death, Philosophy, Real

  "Robin Williams Good Will Hunting: Quotes, Wife Speech, Monologue From Sean Maguire" by Zachary Stieber, www.theepochtimes.com. August 12, 2014.

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• You know you're getting old when you buy a sexy sheer nightgown and don't know anyone who can see through it.

  Joan Rivers

  Sexy, Fashion, Knows

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• We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Artist, Individuality

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

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• I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Beautiful, Fashion, Clothes

  "Farewell to Oscar de la Renta Hollywood's best loved fashion designer" by Amber Graafland, www.mirror.co.uk. October 21, 2014.

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• There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Emotional, Elements

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

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• Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

  Barry Humphries

  Humor, Laughing, Missing

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• Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in life and honoured in death, when all questions of colour are swept away and when in a free country free citizens shall meet on equal grounds.

  Annie Besant

  Spiritual, Country, Sacrifice

  Annie Besant (1913). “Wake Up, India: A Plea for Social Reform”

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• She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else.

  Elsa Lanchester

  Sarcastic, Women, Mouths

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• If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

  Estelle Getty

  Sorry, Mean, Funny Marriage

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• Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.

  Laurie Colwin

  Friendship, Sisterhood, Two

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• When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

  Edith Evans

  Nice, Women, Feminist

  The Observer, September 30, 1956.

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• Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

  Dawn Addams

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

  Lillian Gordy Carter

  Women, Elderly, Age

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• I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.

  Carrie Nation

  Women, Air, Smoking

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• I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Women, Liberty, Jewelry

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.269

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• By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up

  Eve Babitz

  Women, Maturity

  Eve Babitz (2015). “Eve's Hollywood”, p.151, New York Review of Books

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  You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

  Lauren Bacall

  Hate, Winning, Battle

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