Memorable Quotes - Page 17

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

Instant gratification is not soon enough.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

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

Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.

You know why I feel older? I went to buy sexy underwear and they automatically gift wrapped it.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

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

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

I have more influence now than when I had the power.

What is right is not always the same as what is legal

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.

If you can’t be brilliant, at least be memorable

And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.

I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs, but what I really hope is that I have done some good photo stories with memorable images that make a point, and, perhaps, even make a difference.

Reality, for all intents and purposes, is just life - the real world, pure and uncut, shot straight to the vein of our souls every day we draw breath. Whether it's good or bad, it's still reality; the opposite of illusion, the foe of fantasy, and the anchor that keeps us stuck on this plane. And thank Buddha it does, because some people need it in huge doses.

If everything is happy go-lucky all the time, you don't know when you're experiencing joy and feeling life at its finest moments. You have to suffer a little.

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers.

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

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.