Memorable Quotes
-
I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart. My songs bring images to the listener's mind. The object is to transport my listeners to another place, some place sacred and spiritual that will make them glad they took the ride.
-
I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve.
-
A very ancient and fish-like smell.
-
Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.
-
If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
-
I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart.
-
Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.
-
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
-
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.
-
He is not great who is not greatly good.
-
I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again.
-
I've never met a very memorable cobbler.
-
While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
-
Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.
-
A hit, a very palpable hit.
-
For me, being memorable is more important than winning.
-
The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all. No wonder we trusted him, he never lied to us. ... His stubbornness, even defiance, in the face of facts ('stupid things,' he once called them in a memorable slip) was nothing short of splendid. ... This is the man who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency.
-
I was born in '58, so the riot in Detroit in 1967 was a memorable introduction to the issue of race and how race made a difference in American society. And then the next year, of course, Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. And the Detroit Tigers winning the World Series. All of that made a huge impression on my growing mind.
-
This has been, all in all, a memorable day. If my luck holds out, I should get hit by a truck on my way home.
-
If you want to create a memorable company, you have to fill your company with memorable people.
-
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
-
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.
-
I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.
-
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
