Life Quotes

"The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale"

"In life, it's important to stay true to yourself and not let anyone else dictate your path"

"I like change. I've never really had much consistency in my life, you know, from everyday work to my living situation to whether or not I'm going to be in L.A"

Ashley Olsen, Actress

"Life is beautiful. Cherish every moment even if you're stressed or hurt or whatnot. There's always tomorrow and it always gets better"

Ariana Grande, Actress

"My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education"

John H. Johnson, Businessman

"My dream had always just been to do my work well, fall in love and build a life for myself"

Carrie Snodgress, Actress

"A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away"

Gene Roddenberry, Producer

"The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life"

Theodor Svedberg, Scientist

"Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect"

Terry McMillan, Author

"I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward"

Rachel McAdams, Actress

"And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it"

Aaron McGruder, Artist

"By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves"

Marie Dressler, Actress

"At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered"

Tracy Chapman, Musician

"I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people"

Tom Baker, Actor

"For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change"

John Hawkes, Actor

"One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck"

Carl Zuckmayer, Playwright

"Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile"

Gerald Massey, Poet

"I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives"

Michael Parkinson, Journalist

"The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom"

Guy de Maupassant, Writer

"If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar"

Billy Crudup, Actor

"Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom"

Jim DeMint, Politician

"Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling"

Dean Stockwell, Actor

"One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this"

Tony Greig, Athlete

"You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game"

Mark Russell, Writer

"In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis"

Robert Casey, Politician

"From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life"

Wayne Allard, Politician

"We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition"

Jay Hernandez, Actor

"Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two"

Roy H. Williams, Businessman

"Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death"

Erik H. Erikson, Psychologist

"I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life"

Davy Jones, Musician

"I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea"

Deborah Bull, Dancer

"What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with"

Charlotte Rampling, Actress

"I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people"

Kiri Te Kanawa, Musician

"It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?"

Steve Forbert, Musician

"Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics"

Edward Said, Writer

"Here's the thing about Apple, we complain and they give us more battery life. We complain and they'll give us more stuff. Everything's beta right now. Everything's experimental. They really don't know what people want"

Sinbad, Comedian

"Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know"

Mark Oliphant, Scientist

"None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life"

Thomas Cole, Artist

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