Memorably Quotes

#1. And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.

Ezra Pound

#2. But very little of it can do more
than start you on your way to the real, unimaginably
difficult goal of writing memorably. That work is done
slowly and in solitude, and it is as improbable as carrying
water in a sieve.

Mary Oliver

#3. I went to meet Joe Johnston, the director, and he's charming. I've been very lucky. Most of the directors I've worked with are charming. But Joe's a particularly charming man, and he showed me lots of designs and, rather memorably, welcomed me to the Marvel Universe.

Toby Jones

#4. To die famous is the goal of the immortal. To die young is the goal of the healthy. To die memorably is the goal of the survivor.

Bauvard

#5. The most memorably photos are layered, in good light, and have something really ineresting going on in them. If you can get all three elements into a single frame, now you're talking.

Joel Sartore

#6. Listen to your life. Listen to what happens to you because it is through what happens to you that God speaks ... It's in language that's not always easy to decipher, but it's there, powerfully, memorably, unforgettably.

Frederick Buechner

#7. Florence Dempsey, played by Torchy Blane actress Glenda Farrell, goes so far as to memorably declare to her friend Charlotte in The Mystery of the Wax Museum, "You raise the kids; I'll raise the roof!

Erika Janik

#8. As Engels memorably put it: "The overthrow of mother-right was the world historical defeat of the female sex. The man took command in the home also; the woman was degraded and reduced to servitude; she became the slave of his lust and a mere instrument for the production of children.

Anonymous

#9. Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views - on politics, sexuality, religion, and many other contentious topics - than Robert Heinlein.

Paul Di Filippo

#10. People make their own history, as Karl Marx once memorably observed, but not under conditions of their own choosing.

Richard J. Evans

#11. It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

Antonio Tabucchi

#12. They say that when a woman wants to end a relationship, she cuts off all of her hair. I've done that twice in my marriage but am still married.

Leslie Mann

#13. I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Roy Harper

#14. All our focus and strength must be concentrated on striving to fulfill the will of God for our lives

Sunday Adelaja

#15. When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he's there or not.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#16. Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.

John Gresham Machen