Memorable Quotes - Page 6

• Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

  Ruth Benedict

  Faith, Future, Long

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.125, Transaction Publishers

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• All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

  Gloria Swanson

  Women, Years, California

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

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• Women power is a formidable force.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Women Power, Force, Formidable

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• I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

  Fanny Burney

  Women, Ashamed, Confessing

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• Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Inspirational, Winning, Political

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• A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

  Edna Ferber

  Women, Struggle, Looks

  1954 In Reader's Digest, Dec.

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• Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

  Anne Frank

  Girl, Women, Thinking

  "The Diary of a Young Girl". Book by Anne Frank, 1952.

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• The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

  Celia Green

  Women, Science, Research

  The Decline and Fall of Science Aphorisms (p. 1)

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• As I grow older and older,
  And totter toward the tomb,
  I find that I care less and less
  Who goes to bed with whom.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Bed, Care, Grows

  Quoted in Janet Hitchman, Such a Strange Lady (1975)

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• I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the "dahling" thing got started?

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Women, Thinking, Names

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

  Sara Teasdale

  Friendship, Women, Possessing

  Sara Teasdale (1933). “Strange victory: by Sara Teasdale”

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• One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds.

  Charles Kelley

  Thanksgiving, Morning, Brother

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• That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

  Taylor Mali

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.21, Penguin

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• I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Prayer, Writing, Thinking

  "Christmas Carol" by Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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• I'd love to be a memorable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual, comic, tragic way. I'd like to leave the impression that Marilyn Monroe did, to be able to arouse so many different feelings in people.

  Madonna Ciccone

  People, Feelings, Way

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• You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what's interesting to me.

  Don Felder

  Music, Guitar, Interesting

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• ONE BLOOD is a richly detailed, intricately woven tale rendered in lush, evocative prose. This memorable debut heralds Qwantu Amaru as a talent well worth watching.

  Brandon Massey

  Blood, Woven, Talent

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• A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster.

  James Berardinelli

  Vampire, Monsters, Veins

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• Obviously, the most memorable has a lot to do with the time spent on the matter, and the Westerfield and Peterson cases are up at the top of the list.

  Catherine Crier

  Matter, Lists, Cases

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• With the goal of crafting a course that fits harmoniously with its surroundings, we took full advantage of the dramatic vistas, indigenous flora and beautiful rolling terrain to create a memorable golf experience for members and resort guests.

  Pete Dye

  Beautiful, Golf, Goal

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• I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.” I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I’ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.

  Bill Gates

  Graduation, Jobs, Dad

  Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

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• I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.

  Gloria Steinem

  Graduation, Funeral, Bats

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• Probably the most memorable even of my life is when I was born. It really made me who I am. If I die, I hope to go out the same way I came in, but I don't think my mother would be into that.

  Zach Braff

  Mother, Thinking, Who I Am

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• The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

  Shelley Berman

  Firsts, Carnegie, Appearance

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

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• The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.

  Aidan Chambers

  People, Lovable, Most Memorable

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