Life Quotes

"People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

"Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual"

Paul Tournier, Author

"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself"

Anais Nin, Author

"I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions"

Enoch Powell, Politician

"The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood"

Alice Meynell, Poet

"It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen"

Matt Groening, Cartoonist

"My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far"

Alice Meynell, Poet

"Each instant of life is a step toward death"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

"I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life"

E. Howard Hunt, Criminal

"Even without wars, life is dangerous"

Anne Sexton, Poet

"I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future"

Lou Reed, Musician

"In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people"

Matt Groening, Cartoonist

"I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life"

Matt Groening, Cartoonist

"I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever"

William J. Clinton, President

"The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life"

Kinky Friedman, Musician

"No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions"

Kinky Friedman, Musician

"Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

"I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try"

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

"Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts"

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

"The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

"We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul"

Rebecca West, Author

"You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing"

Kinky Friedman, Musician

"A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere"

Rebecca West, Author

"Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need"

Jesse Owens, Athlete

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