Life Quotes

"The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life"

"In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird"

Julie Walters, Actress

"If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?"

Jimmy Smits, Actor

"I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't"

Yancy Butler, Actress

"Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us"

Walter Pater, Critic

"For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might"

Rihanna, Musician

"I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life"

Neil Young, Musician

"I sing about life"

Marvin Gaye, Musician

"Don't get too caught up in making money or having a job, get excited about the fact that you can design your life"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world"

James F. Cooper, Novelist

"Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want"

Marsha Sinetar, Philosopher

"The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you've made some choices, and maybe they weren't the right choices, and that it's all coming to an end"

Mike Singletary, Athlete

"I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I'd like to be that guy now. Maybe that's what I'm going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team"

Mark Spitz, Athlete

"I've watched a lot of guys through the years, and they hold their breath until they finally win The Big One, thinking then they can exhale and chill out. You have to breathe through life, man. Have fun"

Lee Haney, Athlete

"I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"Half my life is an act of revision"

John Irving, Novelist

"By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite"

Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Philosopher

"The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it"

Joan Collins, Actress

"I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed"

Joan Collins, Actress

"After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is"

Yo-Yo Ma, Musician

"The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course"

Sue Grafton, Novelist

"There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the things that make you happy. It is the small things that make life good"

Sebastian Vettel, Celebrity

"A bachelor's life is no life for a single man"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

"My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it"

Jason Mraz, Musician

"I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

"Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for"

James Taylor, Musician

"I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary"

Ed Harris, Actor

"Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages"

William J. Brennan, Jr., Judge

"I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life"

Saul Williams, Musician

"I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

"For example, if the big bang had been one-part-in-a billion more powerful, it would have rushed out too fast for the galaxies to form and for life to begin"

Robert Lanza, Scientist

"Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most"

Al Capp, Cartoonist

"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement"

Golda Meir, Leader

"I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it"

Gabriel Byrne, Actor

"I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life"

John Astin, Actor

"When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I'm not blaming the reporters. It's the system"

Jimmy Smits, Actor

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