Memorable Quotes — Page 36

Seth Godin

Author, Entrepreneur

“If there isn't a good reason, go home. If there is, then do something ... loud, now, and memorable.”

Home Greatness Memorable

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J. D. Salinger

Novelist, Short Story Writer

“But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.”

Mean Mother Memorable

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.”

Would Be Moon

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“The researcher is more memorable than the researched.”

Knowledge History

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Steven Morrissey

Singer-Songwriter

“What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.”

Morning Wish Memorable

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“Unaccountable private power concentrations that dominate economic and social life have the means to seek to "regiment the public mind," and become "tools and tyrants" of government, in James Madison's memorable phrase, as he warned of the threats he discerned to the democratic experiment if private powers were granted free rein.”

Mean Government Memorable

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.”

Stars Memorable Experience

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed are only partly ours.”

Art Philosophy Memorable

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult yet innocent expression of their open and serene eyes is very memorable. All intelligence seems reflected in them. They suggest not merely the purity of infancy, but a wisdom clarified by experience. Such an eye was not born when the bird was, but is coeval with the sky it reflects. The woods do not yield another such a gem.”

Eye Sky Memorable

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.”

Memorable Woods Forests

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.”

Men Fall Memorable

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love has inspired? It is wonderful that they were ever uttered. They are few and rare indeed, but, like a strain of music, they are incessantly repeated and modulated by the memory. All other words crumble off with the stucco which overlies the heart. We should not dare to repeat these now aloud. We are not competent to hear them at all times.”

Heart Memories Memorable

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