Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."
~By Maya Angelou ~
It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.
~By Holly Hunter ~
As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.
~By Sophie Marceau ~
I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.
~By Jackie DeShannon ~
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
~By Eudora Welty ~
On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.
~By Naomi Watts ~
Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.
~By Anita Hill ~
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.
~By Julia Barr ~
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
~By James Baldwin ~
I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.
~By William H. Macy ~
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
~By Erich Fromm ~
I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.
~By Tina Turner ~
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
~By Shinichi Suzuki ~
What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life.
~By John Biddle ~
Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.
~By Damon Hill ~
I pay parking tickets. You know, you can try to give 50%, but then they charge you all those penalties! Seriously, I have gotten many, many, many tickets in my life.
~By Debra Messing ~
He had Parkinson's disease for about, I'd say diagnosed for about 11 of the last years of his life. And treatment was not as good as it is now, of course. We're still going along and he died in '85 and he was 77.
~By Lynn Redgrave ~
We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.
~By Solange Knowles ~
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.
~By Dave Winfield ~
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
~By Henry Miller ~
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
~By Irving Berlin ~
Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.
~By Frank Dane ~
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
~By Imelda Marcos ~
It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous?
~By Ruth Pitter ~
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
~By Daniel Day Lewis ~
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
~By Nadine Gordimer ~
As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.
~By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
~By Julia Ward Howe ~
I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.
~By Ben Shahn ~
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system.
~By Paul Gillmor ~
Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.
~By Nick Carter ~
If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
~By W. C. Fields ~
I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.
~By Neil Simon ~
Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
~By Terry Prachett ~
I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
~By Henry Ellis ~
Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.
~By Alex Lifeson ~
I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.
~By Katherine Dunham ~
There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
~By Richard Ford ~
The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
~By Alfred Jarry ~
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.
~By Charlie Kaufman ~
My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
~By Halle Berry ~
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
~By Gwendolyn Brooks ~
The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.
~By Georg Brandes ~
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.
~By Sachin Tendulkar ~
I have never voted in my life.
~By Andres Serrano ~
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.
~By Anne Tyler ~
My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.
~By Cleveland Abbe ~
Dancing is my obsession. My life.
~By Mikhail Baryshnikov ~
I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
~By Thomas Sprat ~
Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.
~By Maureen Forrester ~
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
~By Agnes de Mille ~
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.
~By Charles Scribner, Jr. ~
Life is a state of consciousness.
~By Emmet Fox ~
The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.
~By Brooke Shields ~
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
~By Gail Sheehy ~
I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
~By Johnny Depp ~
I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.
~By Arthur Capper ~
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
~By Julius Caesar ~
I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.
~By Dexter Scott King ~
I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.
~By Kinky Friedman ~
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.
~By Eduard Shevardnadze ~
Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.
~By Jason Schwartzman ~
And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.
~By Robert Sternberg ~
You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.
~By Elizabeth Moon ~
I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that.
~By Claire Bloom ~
Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.
~By Tom Clancy ~
To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
~By Fernando Pessoa ~
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
My first book was the book that changed my life.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
~By Edith Wharton ~
The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
~By Parker Stevenson ~
I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.
~By Oded Fehr ~
I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.
~By Henry Ossawa Tanner ~
I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?
~By Gunther Schuller ~
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
~By Sholom Aleichem ~
I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.
~By Sara Paretsky ~
If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.
~By Bruce Dickinson ~
You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
~By Jerry West ~
I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done.
~By Sheryl Lee ~
We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.
~By Sheena Easton ~
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
~By Angela Carter ~
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