Memorable Quotations | Page 2

The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.

Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

The writing I love has something memorable in it - an image, a smell. It's the connection between the moment and the whole concept, weaving the micro together with the macro so that it has a hold on people - that's writing.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

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.

There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

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

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

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

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

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

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

I regret not working harder to create true friendships with other couples, not seeking out people with whom to go do things and go places - people with whom to have a few crazy, memorable bonding adventures.

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.

Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

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

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

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

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.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

I don't really know how to do casual clothes

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

People ask me all the time now, what's the most memorable moment of your career? It's always the championships. The first goal, the 50th - it doesn't matter. It's always the championships.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

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

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

Life is very tough. If you don't laugh, it's tough.

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

When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

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

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.

What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.

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

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do

A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

By providing memorable social media customer service, companies not only create deeper connections with consumers, but they glean valuable insights on how to improve their products or services.

I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.

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.

I don't know if I've ever had a memorable body check. It's not really part of my game.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.

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.

I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.

My most memorable food challenge was probably the Big Texan in Amarillo. All the big executives called me because it was such an iconic challenge, and a victory in that would be a legitimizing device for myself as much as for the show.

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.

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?

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.

The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do.

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.