Memorable Occasion Quotes

#1. I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.

Lester B. Pearson

#2. He said no; only upon one memorable occasion. It was after a great feast given by his father the king on the gaining of a great battle wherein fifty of the enemy had been killed by about two o'clock in the afternoon, and all cooked and eaten that very evening.

Herman Melville

#3. On one memorable occasion Vronsky played all the parts in an abridged version of Anna Karenina when the rest of the cast were on strike for more blinis.

Jasper Fforde

#4. They'd come here to spoon and, on one memorable occasion, fork.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Courage mounteth with occasion.

William Shakespeare

#6. Sculley found Jobs as memorable as his machine. He seemed more a showman than a businessman. Every move seemed calculated, as if it was rehearsed, to create an occasion of the moment.

Walter Isaacson

#7. I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

Will Smith

#8. If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

#9. People fell in love, and lost, and moved on. He didn't know why he couldn't. He didn't know why he didn't even want to. All he knew was that whatever he had to owe to Hell or Heaven for this chance, he was going to make it count.

Cassandra Clare

#10. There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God
a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#11. But this is where it gets weird. The mole planet would be a giant sphere of meat.

Randall Munroe

#12. Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.

Stephen Hawking

#13. You'll do well, Percy. Just remember your strengths and beware your weaknesses.

Rick Riordan

#14. She was young-looking--most because of the impression she gave of still being on happy sensuous terms with life.

Elizabeth Bowen

#15. Culture is nested in context, not genes.

Thomas L. Friedman