176 Remark Quotes

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Famous Remark Quotes

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. — Ambrose Bierce

When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable. — Meg Whitman

The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent. — Al Swearengen

Leave a mark they can't erase, neither space nor time. - Jay-Z

Leave a mark they can't erase, neither space nor time. — Jay-Z

Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids. — Mason Cooley

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. — Edgar Allan Poe

The things that stand out are often the oddities. — Pierre Salinger

The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation. — John Archibald Wheeler

Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet. — Morgan Freeman

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. — Clifton Fadiman

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. — Wendy Wasserstein

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice. — Bill Cosby

The understanding eye sees the maker’s fingerprints. They are evident in every detail ... Leave Fingerprints. — James Krenov

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. — Bill Cosby

Short Remark Quotes

  • People are remarkably open to criticism when they believe it’s intended to help them. — Adam Grant
  • Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well. — Aldous Huxley
  • It's remarkable what you can build if you just don't stop. — James Clear
  • I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. — Tennessee Williams
  • I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. — Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams
  • The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined. — Ashley Montagu
  • Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark. — Brad Paisley
  • Authority comes from creating remarkable content that actually helps people. — Brian Clark
  • She was a remarkable person and the love of my life. — Gough Whitlam
  • The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative. — Nancy Etcoff
Remark quote How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

Smart Remark Quotes

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable. — Barack Obama

I'll always remember Jean Paul Gaultier, who did a project based on Madonnas, remarking on the images, "Yours are much better." Gaultier is really smart, so it's good getting a compliment from him! — Miles Aldridge

Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be. — Barbara Tuchman

Remark quote Remarkable people know the difference between impossible and improbable.
Remarkable people know the difference between impossible and improbable.

True diva could not live without smart remark every now and then, a good sip of water. — Mariah Carey

I was proud of 'House, MD,' and I think it was good for what it was and remarkably smart for a television show. I loved Hugh Laurie and was proud to be by his side that long and to be trusted by him. — Robert Sean Leonard

I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Remark quote Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them. — James Surowiecki

Closing Remarks Quotes

Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy. — Mary Anne Radmacher

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. — Henry David Thoreau

Next time you see a yardful of sprouting dandelions, note that they look remarkably like things we call "flowers." And later, when the flowers turn into fluff balls, look closely at one of those fluff balls and ask yourself whether it's really so unattractive. — Robert Wright

It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of our globe. — William Huggins

Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person. — Charles Dickens

As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving... we are learning about our world and its possibilities. — Maria Konnikova

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom. — Randy Forbes

If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line. — Benoit Mandelbrot

My images don't come close to real life. The world is remarkable, astounding and surprising that one does not need to exaggerate. What actually exists is simply insane. — Duane Hanson

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Passing Remarks Quotes

I have not taken my good looks seriously from the beginning. When I would be teased by my friends about my looks, I would just make a self-deprecating remark and let it pass. — Arjun Rampal

I am also, I must confess, a little sceptical of the theory that we have a right, if we could, to pass on our capital burden to future generations. I remarked last year in this context that our predecessors had not passed any significant part of their burden on to us. — John James Cowperthwaite

Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with. — Benjamin Hoff

The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in extraordinary shape-shifting prose that makes this not just an important novel, but a remarkable read. — Aminatta Forna

Remember you love writing. It wouldn't be worth it if you didn't. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back. Remember writing doesn't love you. It doesn't care. Nevertheless, it can behave with remarkable generosity. Speak well of it, encourage others, pass it on. — A.L. Kennedy

I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her. — Sidney Poitier

It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit. — Victor Hugo

A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately. — William Shenstone

All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel a little like a Hobbit who glimpses colourful strangers passing but has never left the Shire. — John Howe

The ability and intelligence is remarkable...Prince was able to walk the length of the furrow, between the growing potatoes, and when he was done you might never guess that he passed that way, so sure and careful was every footfall. — Paul Heiney

What Is Remark Quotes

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change. — William Banting

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished. — William H. Whyte

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. — Eric Hoffer

Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world? — Natalie Portman

What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds. — Steve Jobs

The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities. — Gene Roddenberry

The ultimate freedom depends on knowing the ultimate Truth. Truth is not what people say it is, it is what it is. And Truth, quite remarkably, sets one free, just like philosophers have said down the ages. — L. Ron Hubbard

Donald Trump threatened to file a defamation suit against me for running a TV ad that consisted only entirely of his own words on national television. Now, that's really a remarkable theory, that it is defamation to show people what he said on national TV. I think the voters are smarter than that. — Ted Cruz

What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government. — Harold Washington

What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family. — Bob Taft

Being Remarkable Quotes

Do not make yourself the subject of remarks either by being overdressed or by dressing in a lax, untidy manner. Act as though you knew that the eye of heaven is upon you, and that you are living under the approbation or disapprobation of God. — Ellen G. White

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. — Melinda Gates

Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV. — Marie Antoinette

I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours in seemingly random patterns, yet, in the end, have been carefully placed to reveal a remarkable tapestry. I believe God is the weaver at that loom. — Richard Paul Evans

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others. — Saint John of the Cross

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. — Arthur Conan Doyle

If inflation is unwinding, as we believe, then we could be heading back to the future, the Roaring Twenties, the last time several general-purpose technologies evolved at the same time: telephone, electricity, and the internal combustion engine. The setup is remarkably similar! — Cathie Wood

Seeing that Carl Benjamin - Sargon of Akkad is apparently banned from Patreon. Following Alex Jones being disappeared & Tim Cook’s Orwellian remarks, I’d say watch the moving goalposts on words like Hate Speech. I believe in my heart, that this is war on dissent more than hate. — Eric Weinstein

Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning). — Jerry Saltz

You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore. — Bob Dylan

You Are Remarkable Quotes

Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered. — Alfie Kohn

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow. — Julia Cameron

If someone remarks "What an excellent man you are!" and this pleases you more than his saying, "What a bad man you are!" know that you are still a bad man. — Sufyan al-Thawri

Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. — Karen Marie Moning

If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy. — Arthur Schopenhauer

We are all here now and we have to solve our differences and live together as Australians... I will use the title you have honoured me with to bring the Australian people together... Together we can build a remarkable country, the envy of the rest of the world. — Lowitja O'Donoghue

When people come up and give me a compliment... I take each remark as if it were a flower. At the end of the day I lift up the bouquet of flowers I have gathered throughout the day and say, 'Here you are, Lord, it is all Yours.' — Corrie Ten Boom

The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge. In the French Revolution of 1848, a woman coal-heaver is said to have remarked to a richly dressed lady: 'Yes, madam, everything's going to be equal now; I shall go in silks and you'll carry coal.' — Henry Hazlitt

Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers. — Pam Brown

I agree with your remark about loving your enemy as far as actions are concerned. But for me the cognitive basis is the trust in an unrestricted causality. 'I cannot hate him, because he must do what he does.' That means for me more Spinoza than the prophets. — Albert Einstein

Remarkably Quotes

The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst. — Martin Luther

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. — Norman Vincent Peale

Truly remarkable leadership is not just about motivating others to follow, it's about inspiring them to become leaders themselves and setting the stage for even greater opportunities for future generations. — Condoleezza Rice

The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else. — Oswald Chambers

How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding. — Andrew Sean Greer

The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team. — Simon Sinek

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others, at whatever cost. — Arthur Ashe

We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable. — Derek Jacobi

Diet can have a remarkable effect on you, it can reprogram your body and put it on a path to live longer. — Valter Longo

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line. — Madame de Stael

I Am Remarkable Quotes

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case. — Nicholas D. Kristof

I can’t begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self. — Elliot Page

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams." — Abraham Lincoln

[Strong marriage] starts with being married to a remarkable person. And I am. I jokingly say that I stood up in front of a crowd once and said, "Laura's the greatest first lady ever," and then realized my mother was in the audience. — George W. Bush

The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features. — Leon Uris

I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is — Alan Moore

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up... — G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don't make any opening for some fool to step into. — Malcolm X

Do Something Remarkable Quotes

What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV. — John Green

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? — John Green

If you're not doing something that people will remark on, then it's going to be hard to generate word of mouth. — Jeff Bezos

I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation. — Scott McClellan

Bin Laden is remarkably eager for Americans to know why he doesn't like us, what he intends to do about it and then following up and doing something about it in terms of military actions. — Michael Scheuer

I think people need to see Prince live to really understand how remarkable he is. He has always been inspiring because he is never afraid to break rules or barriers or invent something new - and if you love fashion, then you need to be able to do that. — Donatella Versace

There is a remarkable nimbleness of style, a balancing act of tone, in Voltaire, which is hard to bring off on stage. When you speak the words out loud, the effect is very different from when you read them. So one needs to do something new with a stage performance, not simply 'tell the story'. — Mark Ravenhill

We are always creating new tools and techniques to help people, but the fundamental framework is remarkably resilient, which means it must have something to do with the nature of organizations or human nature. — John P. Kotter

You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those who do expect something in return. They've been getting it. — Jack Kelly

Comment Quotes

I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag. — Molly Ivins

You are not defined by an Instagram photo, by a 'Like,' by a comment. That does not define you. — Selena Gomez

And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment? — Mary Oliver

A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated — Haile Selassie

The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing. — Andrew Breitbart

It still annoys me when I read really derogatory things about how a woman looks because you would usually not read these things about a man, and that still has the potential to put women off public life. — Nicola Sturgeon

Now you can see some truth in the comment from Henry Kissinger: Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world. — Alex Jones

A smoked salmon sandwich of a football match if ever there has been one. - Peter Drury

A smoked salmon sandwich of a football match if ever there has been one. — Peter Drury

Look at the flack a few unfunded volunteers take for even commenting about the ethical considerations, the multi-billion dollar incentive mis-alignment. the people you are commenting on are hugely funded, awash with retail investor cash and looking to perpetuate the game into the next coin. — Adam Back

Montoya’s comments doesn’t interest me. — Kimi Raikkonen

Notable Quotes

A few years ago, researchers noticed a curious phenomenon: people taking metformin were living notably healthier lives — independent, it seemed, of its effect on diabetes. — David Sinclair

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction. — Jacques Chirac

I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it. — Billy Graham

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. — Michel de Montaigne

Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. — Thomas Jefferson

I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type. — Andy Hertzfeld

The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities. — Adrienne Rich

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer. — William Penn

We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt. — Hillary Clinton

Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice. — Molly Ivins

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More Remark Quotes

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. — George Orwell

I caught the happy virus last night When I was out singing beneath the stars. It is remarkably contagious - So kiss me. — Hafez

Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan. — Jane D. Hull

The process of growth is, it seems, the art of falling down. Growth is measured by the gentleness and awareness with which we once again pick ourselves up, the lightness with which we dust ourselves off, the openness with which we continue and take the next unknown step, beyond our edge, beyond our holding, into the remarkable mystery of being. — Stephen Levine

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. — Aldous Huxley

Cannabis is remarkably safe. Although not harmless, it is surely less toxic than most of the conventional medicines it could replace if it were legally available. Despite its use by millions of people over thousands of years, cannabis has never caused an overdose death. — Lester Grinspoon

No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others, and to receive by communication their inclinations and sentiments, however different from, or even contrary to our own. — David Hume

You should not actually stay in bed for very long awake, because your brain is this remarkably associative device. — Matthew Walker

I like to think that Einstein would look at string theory’s journey and smile, enjoying the theory’s remarkable geometrical features while feeling kinship with fellow travelers on the long and winding road toward unification. — Brian Greene

Exercise is remarkably beneficial for the brain. High fitness levels in midlife delayed dementia onset by 9.5 years in women. Larger brain volumes have also been linked to increased physical activity. Maintain youthful brain volume by embracing exercise. We can transform our brain health as we age. — Rhonda Patrick

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. — Charles R. Swindoll

When asked by a grumpily puzzled professor what "rules" he followed, Debussy is said to have retorted, mon plaisir "whatever I please" and he further claimed that more was to be gained by watching the sun rise than by listening to the Pastoral Symphony. Although such remarks were intended to shock, they contain a core of Debussyan verity. — Claude Debussy

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