I would much rather read a book about Ty Cobb, who was quite possibly a sociopath. It makes for more interesting copy. Some of the most memorable characters in literature were villains.
It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.
You know why I feel older? I went to buy sexy underwear and they automatically gift wrapped it.
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
In regard to dogs, my most memorable thoughts concern my daughter's dog and her fondness for them. In fact, one day while working at the office, she hosted a birthday party for one of her Newfoundlands and the party was attended by dogs of other coworkers. It was a hectic few hours, but I believe the guests enjoyed themselves.
I was not an attractive child. When I didn't use my Girl Scouts uniform as a uniform, I used it as a tent.
Gough, of course, would have loved to speak today but the rules of the game have disqualified him.
In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.
My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.
Sons of the Dawn is a page-turner, and author Hank Nuwer is to be thanked for enriching our sense of the West with this memorable novel.
Strong reasons make strong actions.
Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.
Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and hauntingly memorable poems are a bleak place full of life, prayer, and the kind of answers only poems like these can provide.