Quotes About Memorable People

#1. If you want to create a memorable company, you have to fill your company with memorable people.

Bill Taylor

#2. The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren't very lovable.

Aidan Chambers

#3. What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to teach young people to have a critical mind and a socially oriented attitude, they will have done all that is necessary.

Albert Einstein

#4. The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives ...

Walker Percy

#5. Very few people ever meet celebrities. All we really know is what we read about them and the most memorable lines are jokes. That's how we tend to define what we think of a public figure.

Robert Orben

#6. Not only is a good name catchy and memorable, it should help people understand what your business does. If your name reflects your products or services you'll have a much better chance of being found [via Google search], so it's important to choose wisely.

Lori Greiner

#7. If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way: Will we ultimately produce something approaching a masterpiece, an acceptable but not particularly memorable work of art, or a creation that wouldn't even be purchased at a yard sale?

Mardy Grothe

#8. People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten - they look great, but they're not as memorable.

Dita Von Teese

#9. Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.

Albert Einstein

#10. Instead of going out, I'm trying to encourage people to have a memorable experience in their own home. We call it 'Delicioso Night In.' I invite the people I care about the most. Then, when I get a lot of people together, I like to have finger foods.

Aaron Sanchez

#11. Even if a poem is beautiful and memorable, it's not like an advertising jingle or propaganda, which attempt to convince and control. Poems seek to confuse, disabuse, enlarge understanding, and make people ask questions and think for themselves.

Rachel Zucker

#12. Everything in this country [the US] has got to be good looks and unlined faces and thin bodies and people running around in skirts slit up to their ass. It has nothing to do with thinking or with being a human being. There is life in mature people; it's not all over at 24½.

Lauren Bacall

#13. People are more likely to remember the great social interaction they had with a colleague than the great meeting they both attended.

Ron Garan

#14. I just want my songs to be memorable, and for people to hear my songs in ten year's time and remember the great times they had while listening to 'em.

Cher Lloyd

#15. I learned to do with little. And that's why today, I only spend the taxpayers' money like I spend my own, which is seldom. The people of Mississauga love that.

Hazel McCallion

#16. Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly hand to you these deeds as proof, in Australian law, that these lands belong to the Gurindji people and I put into your hands this piece of the earth itself as a sign that we restore them to you and your children forever.

Gough Whitlam

#17. I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write phrases that people can't forget as soon as they read them.

Clive James

#18. I regret not working harder to create true friendships with other couples, not seeking out people with whom to go do things and go places - people with whom to have a few crazy, memorable bonding adventures.

Robin Marantz Henig

#19. The writing I love has something memorable in it - an image, a smell. It's the connection between the moment and the whole concept, weaving the micro together with the macro so that it has a hold on people - that's writing.

Atul Gawande

#20. Some people live their memorable years fighting against their basic instincts only to succumb in the end to what was actually good for them.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#21. I've gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you.

Steven Morrissey

#22. It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.

Steven Morrissey

#23. I'd love to be a memorable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual, comic, tragic way. I'd like to leave the impression that Marilyn Monroe did, to be able to arouse so many different feelings in people.

Madonna Ciccone

#24. Research shows people believe others see their contributions to conversation as being memorable, but they aren't. You think everyone noticed when you stumbled in your speech, but they didn't. Well, unless you drew attention to it by over-apologizing.

David McRaney

#25. 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

#26. With people in the world such as 'Jamie Oliver' and [TV chef] Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals.

Steven Morrissey

#27. Even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.

William J. Clinton

#28. She was a stranger, but not just any stranger. She was "the stranger". And of course, that was the difference that made everyone's emotions stranger.

Shannon L. Alder

#29. People ask me all the time what or who my influences are. To be honest, it would take a decent set of encyclopedias to get them all down. I am here today to let the world know my greatest influence, my secret ingredient, really. What inspires me? That's simple: COFFEE.

Corey Taylor

#30. I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#31. The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves - and the most memorable and beautiful outfits are simply those that, in some rare moment of joy, we found the courage to share with the world.

Simon Van Booy

#32. Intelligent people need a fool to lead them. When the team's all a bunch of scientists, it is best to have a peasant lead the way. His way of thinking is different. It's easier to win if you have people seeing things from different perspectives.

Jack Ma

#33. Confidence is necessary to charisma. No one's going to like the kid quietly sitting in the corner, because there's no reason to. They haven't done anything memorable or exciting. People love a trendsetter or a rebel. These

Virginia Patel

#34. Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved!
Receive the laurel, given, though late, on merit; to whom
and wherever deserved.
Parochial punks, trimmers, nice people, joiners true-blue,
Get the hell out of the way of the laurel. It is deathless
And it isn't for you.

Louise Bogan

#35. I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

Albert Einstein

#36. The occasions when an individual is able to harness a nation are memorable, and Grey's speech proved to be one of those junctures by which people afterward date events.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#37. I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event.

Martina Mcbride

#38. I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.

Kelsey Grammer

#39. All the new people you meet, it's pretty amazing. The vampire needs new blood. And there is still a lot to learn and there is always great stuff out there. Even mistakes can be wonderful.

Robin Williams

#40. My husband and I have enjoyed many summer holidays on the Continent, and many people say that their most memorable trips have been the journeys made on the spur of the moment.

Margaret Beckett

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

Barack Obama

#42. People bring flowers and that's pretty memorable. I actually got a rose from one girl. She was so beautiful! I love all the screenings to be honest with you. I don't think I have gone to one single bad screening! Even if negative things happen, I turn it into positive reaction.

Tommy Wiseau

#43. [Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you wanted to be whipped by the local vicar or something.

Steven Morrissey

#44. People ask me all the time now, what's the most memorable moment of your career? It's always the championships. The first goal, the 50th - it doesn't matter. It's always the championships.

Paul Coffey

#45. I love 'Gabriel Knight' and will always be proud of it. Despite the fact that I've done many other things, it seems to be the one thing that people remember. I hope 'Gray Matter' is as memorable.

Jane Jensen

#46. The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities ... I listen to them and they go away delighted.

Andre Gide

#47. The art of presenting oneself, he had once told Sybil, lies in creating an immediate shock which is countered by a slow retreat into custom. People never quite recover from my cravats, but they will never find the equal of my tailor. To be memorable is all, when it comes to dress.

Timothy Findley

#48. If you don't show up at a party, people will assume you're fat.

Julia Duffy

#49. For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.

Barack Obama

#50. For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds - and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert. Those people would be legalized with the same act.

Steve King

#51. Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale with memorable characters and filled it with the abundant warmth and wisdom that we've come to expect from this gifted storyteller.

John Burnham Schwartz

#52. The negative things people say are much more memorable.

Donny Miller

#53. After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.

Lauren Bacall