Life Quotes

"My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?"

Flip Wilson, Comedian

"For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way"

Kim Novak, Actress

"It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life"

Carlos Santana, Musician

"Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life"

Karl Kraus, Writer

"Things change when you give your life to serving God, and that can be scary"

Michael W. Smith, Musician

"Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

"If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life"

John Dyer, Artist

"Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside"

John Dyer, Artist

"For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies"

Karl Kraus, Writer

"I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist"

Edgar Bergen, Actor

"Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage"

John Le Carre, Author

"Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life"

Gary Gygax, Inventor

"I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life"

Conor Oberst, Musician

"The end of reading is not more books but more life"

Holbrook Jackson, Writer

"We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own"

John Le Carre, Author

"You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants"

Jimmy Carter, President

"Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"Above our life we love a steadfast friend"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

"The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life"

Charles Eames, Designer

"Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one"

Stendhal, Writer

"Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained"

Stendhal, Writer

"Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it"

George Byron, Poet

"The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity"

Jimmy Carter, President

"Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?"

George Byron, Poet

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