There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
~By Madonna Ciccone ~
But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.
~By Cindy Crawford ~
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
~By Giorgio de Chirico ~
Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
~By Doug Coupland ~
I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
~By Fred Rogers ~
I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
~By Gioachino Rossini ~
There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.
~By Shania Twain ~
It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.
~By Michael Bolton ~
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
~By Cullen Hightower ~
Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?
~By Marc Maron ~
He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.
~By Kevin McDonald ~
Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world.
~By Jane Seymour ~
We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments.
~By Joshua Leonard ~
But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.
~By Vanessa Carlton ~
One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
~By Henry Drummond ~
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
~By Ashley Montagu ~
It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.
~By Brooks Robinson ~
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.
~By Rufus Wainwright ~
There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.
~By Ashlee Simpson ~
I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
~By Jim Morrison ~
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
~By Booth Tarkington ~
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
~By Paul Muldoon ~
There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer.
~By Fred Savage ~
For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.
~By John Sexton ~
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
~By Billy Graham ~
Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.
~By Edwidge Danticat ~
Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
~By Richard Bach ~
I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
~By Harold Brodkey ~
I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.
~By Rainn Wilson ~
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?
~By Marcel Marceau ~
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.
~By Thomas Traherne ~
Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.
~By Ayrton Senna ~
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.
~By Margot Fonteyn ~
I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.
~By Angus Wilson ~
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.
~By Gloria Estefan ~
Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
~By Heywood Broun ~
Although I managed my schedule to be home by late afternoon most days, basically, Roselle raised our children alone. And so I missed out on a lot of wonderful moments, missed watching my kids grow into the wonderful people they are today.
~By Perry Como ~
There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
~By Pliny the Elder ~
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.
~By Harrison Birtwistle ~
If you think of 'Liberty Valance' or 'The Searchers,' there are moments in there that you'll never, ever forget... And it does not matter what century you are from.
~By Kevin Costner ~
The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and no, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.
~By Annie Lennox ~
As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business.
~By William Bell ~
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.
~By John Barton ~
Later, I made a movie with him, 'That Touch of Mink,' and we became good friends but any woman's initial meeting with Cary is right up there with the big moments of her world history.
~By Audrey Meadows ~
Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.
~By Jason Schwartzman ~
That's what I do and I enjoy even the hateful moments of a relationship where two people or four people come together to make a bigger mess than originally intended.
~By Josh Silver ~
Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.
~By Mark Rylance ~
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
~By John Milton ~
My favorite moments in the show are when I stand by myself and sing.
~By Justin Timberlake ~
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
~By Cesare Pavese ~
You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.
~By Adam Pascal ~
I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.
~By Deborah Cox ~
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
~By Arnold Bennett ~
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
~By Cesare Pavese ~
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
~By Jean Rostand ~
In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.
~By Richard G. Scott ~
Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.
~By James Young ~
The sexy moments for me, I wasn't thinking of them as sexy. I was thinking of them as more specific to my character. So it was necessary for my character's development in the movie, so that's how I played it.
~By Michelle Trachtenberg ~
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
~By Max Frisch ~
The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.
~By Tom Cruise ~
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
~By Tony Robbins ~
For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just to see their reaction to different moments, what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, stuff like that.
~By Devon Sawa ~
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
~By Jules Renard ~
One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.
~By George W. Bush ~
True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
~By Gwyneth Paltrow ~
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.
~By Michael Johnson ~
It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
~By Edvard Munch ~
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
~By Rose Kennedy ~
The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist.
~By Danny Glover ~
A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.
~By Carlo Collodi ~
This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.
~By Sam Shepard ~
Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.
~By Alan Rudolph ~
I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted.
~By Kevin Johnson ~
I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
~By Bernardo Bertolucci ~
The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
~By Xenophon ~
But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.
~By Clive James ~
People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.
~By Roger Penrose ~
The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.
~By Janet Street-Porter ~
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
~By John Tyndall ~
Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.
~By Robert M. Parker, Jr. ~
I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.
~By Tony Curtis ~
Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.
~By Gioachino Rossini ~
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me, I guess.
~By Nick Cannon ~
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.
~By Rita Dove ~
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