Quotes by Memorable Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world. Henry David Thoreau memorablemenworld It's not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying. Ingrid Bergman crymemorablethinking There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten. Indira Gandhi womenatheismmemorable Voshak's hair, a pale blond braid, which he bleached, was his trademark. It made him memorable. That's how the slavers operated. They adopted costumes and personas, trying to make themselves larger-than-life and hoping to inspire fear. They counted on that fear. One could fight a man, but nobody could fight a nightmare. Ilona Andrews fightingfearmemorable Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. Iris Murdoch memorablelovefall One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon. Henry David Thoreau moonwould-bememorable People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life. Isadora Duncan womenmemorablelife When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want the story to be memorable and the characters to touch the reader's heart. Isabel Allende memorableheartwriting Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life. Ivy Compton-Burnett hanging-onsarcasticmemorable Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. J. D. Salinger missingmemorablefunny What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though. J. D. Salinger readingmemorablebook But it wasn't just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair. J. D. Salinger intelligentmemorablehair What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice. J. D. Salinger nicememorablethinking Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl. J. D. Salinger girlnamesmemorable Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right - I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game. J. D. Salinger gameshotmemorable But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane. J. D. Salinger mothermemorablemean I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible. J. D. Salinger magazinesmemorableliars If you don't give up, you still have a chance. And when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength. Jack Ma dont-give-upgiving-upmemorable You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die. Jack Ma entrepreneurshouldmemorable If we go to work at 8 a.m. and go home at 5 p.m., this is not a high-tech company and Alibaba will never be successful. If we have that kind of 8-5 spirit, then we should just go and do something else. Jack Ma successfulmemorablehome«1718192021222324252627»
