Memorable Quotes - Page 5

• Kilbane's head is better than his feet. If only he had three heads, one on the end of each leg.

  Eamon Dunphy

  Feet, Three, Legs

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• My job as a designer is to make a woman feel her very best.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Jobs, Designer, Feels

  "Oscar de la Renta's Fashion and Feminism rules". Slide 4, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 21, 2014.

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• If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.

  Robin Williams

  Fighting, Disease, Indifference

  "Fictional character: Hunter Patch Adams". "Patch Adams", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me.

  Robin Williams

  Summer, Stars, Eye

  "Fictional character: Jack Powell". "Jack", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

  Robin Williams

  Wise, Learning, Carpe Diem

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

  Arthur Miller

  Today, Tomorrow, Failing

  Arthur Miller (1998). “Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem”, p.7, Penguin

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• One of my many theories about short stories is that their titles and first lines ought to be memorable, because if not memorable they will not be remembered, and if not remembered the stories will not be reprinted (because no one can find them).

  Damon Knight

  Writing, Titles, Stories

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• Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

  Robin Williams

  Party, Canada, Really Great

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

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

  Tom Clancy

  Doe, Matter, No Matter What

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

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• 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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• Forget the past and live the present hour.

  Sarah Knowles Bolton

  Inspirational, Past, Forget

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• Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

  Peg Bracken

  Cutting, Two, Doe

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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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• If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.

  Liz Carpenter

  World, Victim, Turns

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• Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

  Julia Child

  Work, Women, Food

  Julia Child, E. S. Yntema (1979). “Julia Child & more company”, Knopf

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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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• Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

  Edna Ferber

  Women, Sight, Should

  Edna Ferber (2014). “A Kind of Magic: An Autobiography”, p.159, Vintage

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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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• 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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• The most popular labor saving device is still money.

  Phyllis George

  Money, Saving, Funny Business

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• The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

  Ruth Gordon

  Success, Speech, Wells

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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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• I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.

  Grace Hartigan

  Women, Long, Mind

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