Memorable Quotes - Page 42

The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.

I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.

My staff was very excited for Brisvegas. When I arrived, they advised I needed some XXXX.

I believe that the best measure of whether a nation is going to be successful is whether they are tapping the talents of their women.

He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.

We're opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17.

This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right now.

The US and Australia have a lot in common. One of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon.

Over the last several days, we have heard from members of Congress who want their voices to be heard. I absolutely agree.

By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power.

We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our ideals.

I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me.

We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside.

Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.

A hundred years from now? All new people.

Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.

Sarah Cornwell has a brilliant eye for the telling detail, and a wonderfully original way of embodying family history. I was captivated by her memorable characters and the perfectly paced revelations of their surprising relationships.

I may sound like a megalomaniac, but I feel like I'm equipped to become a great, memorable comedian, if I keep working my ass off and staying at the pace I'm at, and I feel a responsibility to do that because of the women who have done it before me, and the ones who need to do it after me.

It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.

Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the dinner Nana throws for her overflowing guests in Zola's Nana, the walk through Les Halles for breakfast in Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, and nearly every meal in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt.

The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situations. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help is, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted.

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.

Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.