All Quotes

Melville locked himself away in his room for months while working on 'Moby Dick.' If I ever decide to write a novel, I hope someone will take pity on me and take me out to dinner instead.
‐‐ Marge Simon

Members of al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations spent a great deal of time blending into the populations of several nations around the world and exploring all aspects of life there.
‐‐ Jo Bonner

Members of Congress and their staffs should be the first to feel the negative consequences of poorly written legislation, not the last.
‐‐ Jeff Duncan

Members of Congress have more in common with the people they hobnob in Washington, D.C., than they do with the people they're supposed to represent.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.
‐‐ Bobby Jindal

Members of India's diaspora, living in distant lands of the world, my good wishes to all of you. You may be far away from India, but you are always close to our hearts.
‐‐ Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Members of organized crime continue to exploit their victims the old-fashioned way - through violence, threats and intimidation. As law enforcement has so successfully done before, we will employ our own time-tested techniques to bring them to justice to account for their crimes.
‐‐ Loretta Lynch

Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.
‐‐ Larry McMurtry

Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.
‐‐ Donald Rumsfeld

Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.
‐‐ Gregory Bateson

Members walk into the chamber full of hatred. They believe the worst lies about the other side. Two senators stopped by my office just a few hours ago. Why? They had a plot to nail somebody on the other side. That's what Congress has come to.
‐‐ Jim Cooper

Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.
‐‐ Jon Corzine

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
‐‐ Benjamin Cardozo

Memes can be visual. Our image of George Washington is a meme. We don't actually have any idea what George Washington looked like. There are so many different portraits of him, and they're all different. But we have an image in our head, and that image is propagated from one place to another, from one person to another.
‐‐ James Gleick

Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.
‐‐ Anne Rice

Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!
‐‐ Bob Beauprez

Memo to future presidents: Never stake your entire survival on the painful passing of a bad bill. Never take the country down the road to 'Demon Pass.'
‐‐ Peggy Noonan

Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
‐‐ Karl Rove

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.
‐‐ Frank Harris

Memoirs are - memory is - rarely 100 percent accurate. Any autobiography is a construct, ballpark, even unnatural. Private diaries, too, can be unreliable - a detail that matters only if the diary is read.
‐‐ Darin Strauss

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
‐‐ George Meredith

'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.
‐‐ Stephen Hunter

Memorable occasions should be brief, and so should be the expressions of appreciation.
‐‐ Simon Kuznets

Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized.
‐‐ James F. Amos

'Memorial Day' is about 'spring break' girls-gone-wild culture which is the seedy underbelly of our American Puritanism, the inverse side of the coin. It's also about how we forcefully exported that culture and then pretended to not know what we were doing.
‐‐ Josh Fox

Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that's a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It's a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it.
‐‐ Pete Hegseth

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.
‐‐ Robin Hayes

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.
‐‐ Robert Byrne

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
‐‐ Harold MacMillan

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.
‐‐ Henry Waxman

Memories are doing funny things to us.
‐‐ Milos Forman

Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window.
‐‐ Delia Smith

Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.
‐‐ John Slattery

Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.
‐‐ Daphne Guinness

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
‐‐ P. G. Wodehouse

Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
‐‐ Ugo Betti

Memories are the best things in life, I think.
‐‐ Romy Schneider

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
‐‐ Corrie Ten Boom

Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
‐‐ Eckhart Tolle

Memories are what you no longer want to remember.
‐‐ Joan Didion

Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.
‐‐ Jennifer Armentrout

Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

Memories, impressions and emotions from the first 20 years on earth are most writers' main material; little that comes afterward is quite so rich and resonant.
‐‐ John Updike

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
‐‐ Rosa Parks

Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.
‐‐ John Podhoretz

Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
‐‐ Adam Lamberg

Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it's like changing a play in a game.
‐‐ Michael Strahan

Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.
‐‐ Bill Mumy