Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals to them beyond just the notes. For a record to be memorable and great, it has to have something of this quality. Exactly what that is, I don't know, but I think it has something to do with an atmosphere, an environment that is appealing and attractive. And the people that inhabit this environment have. . . almost a message for the rest of the world.
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
Life is very tough. If you don't laugh, it's tough.
Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations.
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.
In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two poles of a Volta pile. On his table was a magnetized needle on its pivot, and he suddenly saw (by chance you will say, but chance only favours the mind which is prepared) the needle move and take up a position quite different from the one assigned to it by terrestrial magnetism. A wire carrying an electric current deviates a magnetized needle from its position. That, gentlemen, was the birth of the modern telegraph.
If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.
Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.
When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried' engraved on my tombstone.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
The value of achievement lies in the achieving.
It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. . . This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.
When he breathed, he truly was Australia’s greatest white elder and friend without peer of the original Australians.
And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
I think the reason the stories are briskly paced, when they are, is that I like story. I like stories where things happen and there are surprises and reversals, in addition to vivid characters and a memorable voice. So those are the kinds of stories I try to write. And it turns out that's pretty much the only kind of writing that works for TV. It's a medium that just devours story, demands surprises and reversals. So my sensibility is suited to TV storytelling, at least as we think of it today.
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.
I remember when I saw 'The Matrix' when I was 13, I saw it in the theaters, and I was so blown away by it. It was one of the most memorable experiences I definitely ever had in the theater.