Quotes on Memorable

I was profoundly embarrassed by it [the White Australia Policy] and did all I could to change it.

I believe that the best measure of whether a nation is going to be successful is whether they are tapping the talents of their women.

By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power.

We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside.

I have more influence now than when I had the power.

There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

You know you're getting old when you buy a sexy sheer nightgown and don't know anyone who can see through it.

We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.

What a deformed thief this fashion is.

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate. A stable compound, looking like common salt, but much heavier. This was the magic of chemistry, to see xenon trapped into a crystal.

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

My love life is like a piece of Swiss cheese; most of it's missing, and what's there stinks.

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.