Life Quotes

"There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting"

Fred Frith, Composer

"Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work"

Jim Evans, Athlete

"I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist"

Shelley Duvall, Actress

"One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment"

Chris Christie, Politician

"All my life I've been looking for diversity"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters"

May Sarton, Poet

"And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have before"

Chris Christie, Politician

"I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company"

George Wald, Scientist

"Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"I think in metaphysical terms, I would call that increasing the speed of the vibration of life"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me"

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Director

"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"The Hulk, that was the experience of my life, so far"

Josh Lucas, Actor

"From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that"

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Director

"My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?"

Black Elk, Leader

"I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite"

Josh Lucas, Actor

"When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control"

Helena Bonham Carter, Actress

"Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes"

Knute Rockne, Coach

"Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!"

Jay-Z, Musician

"I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own"

Neville Marriner, Musician

"The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy"

John Hoeven, Politician

"I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness"

Huey Newton, Activist

"Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive"

William Shatner, Actor

"A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation"

Charlotte Bronte, Novelist

"Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one"

Edward Fitzgerald, Poet

"Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again"

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author

"I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

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